Pratap Bhanu Mehta — A Darkening Horizon [For The Liberal Order]

As the late much derided “liberal order” ebbs away, what is the ideological constellation that volition supervene upon it? The liberal social club was oft to a greater extent than an thought than a reality in addition to inward international politics, oft non really liberal at all. But it operated inside a serial of normative horizons — economical centrism, openness to trade, multiculturalism, in addition to and thence on. The flagbearers of that social club are losing credibility all across the world, for a multifariousness of reasons. Deep misjudgements on inequality, issues of identity in addition to structural corruption made liberal, centrist politics lose its sheen. Of course, each solid soil from Republic of Republic of India to Brazil, Republic of Hungary to the the U.S. of A. has its ain historical specificity. But at that topographic point are nonetheless mutual tropes that are running through the politics of these countries. Do these mutual tropes indicate a novel laid upwards of normative horizons? Here are roughly elements of the novel constellation that volition characterise the politics of to a greater extent than countries....

The Indian Express
A darkening horizon
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | vice-chancellor, Ashoka University