My brilliant friend and co-author of an excellent new book "Six faces of globalization" @AntheaERoberts was wondering why I did not discuss the two last (5th & 6th) glob. narratives.
The 5th narrative is geoeco(political): how to stop the rise of China? The arguments used by the proponents of that approach are a pot-pourri of weird ("CHN students should study Shakespeare not engineering") to absurd (CHN s to be mistrusted even if has not done anything bad).
It makes no sense to engage substantively w/ such a narrative b/c people who make these claims are uninterested in whether they are true or false. Their objective is political propaganda & that's fine.
The 6th narrative is "common threats." That approach consistently ignores reality. What is greater common threat than the pandemic? Yet, what do we see? It is not a *common* threat at all. On the contrary.
Poor ppl die more than the rich, and rich countries have a surfeit of vaccines while less that 5% in LDCs are vaccinated. Countries do not cooperate but fight. Shows intellectual bankruptcy of an approach based on ignoring...
inequalities in income, class, interest, gender, race by using the weasel language of "we", "the world" etc.
So, there is really nothing to discuss there either: that narrative may be useful to get PhDs, and give speeches at the EU, but it has no connection to reality.
So, there is really nothing to discuss there either: that narrative may be useful to get PhDs, and give speeches at the EU, but it has no connection to reality.
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