Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less.… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
