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How Globalism Lost its Appeal

Exploring the fundamental reasons behind current turmoil in the West

Sukhayl Niyazov
Dialogue & Discourse
16 min readJun 11, 2019

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Nowadays, when the glory of the ideas of democracy, neoliberalism, and globalism is losing its support not only abroad, but also where these principles used to be most staunchly backed, it is worth asking ourselves the question: why is globalism failing all over the globe?

In the world defined by V. Putin’s revisionism, Xi Jinping’s assertiveness, D. Trump’s disruption and European leaders’ uncertainty, it is becoming increasingly important to comprehend the reasons behind current problems in order to avoid them in the future.

Even Western experts and prominent members of foreign policy establishment of the US and the EU begin to bury liberal world order and believe that unless fundamental changes are implemented the West is doomed.

In the US, Donald Trump’s increasingly nationalist policies are the lesson to the globalist ruling elite of the country that the disregard of mounting internal challenges can eventually result in the rise of…

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Sukhayl Niyazov
Dialogue & Discourse

Writing about politics, science & tech in The National Interest, Towards Data Science, City Journal, Public Discourse. sukhaylniyazov.com