‘Westlessness’: Decline of a moral empire?


A displaced Palestinian girl drinking water from a container at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. — AFP

“WESTLESSNESS” is a current phenomenon marked by the declining influence of Western countries to lead the world they once shaped.

It is reflected in the erosion of the West’s moral authority, which has traditionally been a cornerstone of the West’s global leadership. Coined by Tobias Bunde at the Munich Security Conference in 2020, the term describes how the world becomes less Western.

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