Globalisation isn't over, but we need to ditch the fantasies it ushered in
We need to look past daydreams of 'one world' and adjust it to the new political realities at home and abroad.
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INTELLECTUALS in the West love debating Big Think issues in terms of wars of ideas of thesis and antithesis that signify a la Hegelian philosophy - the end of one historical epoch and the birth of a new one, the 'fall' of this power and the 'rise' of that alternative force that would shape the Zeitgeist.
In the pre-Internet era, those debates were confined to university seminars and scholarly magazines and recapped in
jargon-filled books issued by academic publishing houses.
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