The West’s two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani’s timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world and, crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, politically and militarily, in the affairs of other nations. He examines the West’s greatest follies of recent times: the humiliation of Russia at the end of the Cold War, which led to the rise of Putin, and the invasion of Iraq after 9/11, which destabilized the Middle East. Only by seeking to influence rather than dominate, he warns, can the West continue to play a key geopolitical role. In this thought provoking and original intervention, Mahbubani examines Western hubris with an outsider’s critical eye, and offers a new vision of our future world.