Is the West special? If so, how did it get that way? Why is it in the West that the key developments have occurred throughout our history?
And what do the answers to those questions tell us about the world in which we live now and the world we should strive to create?
Will the West continue to win or is it in decline relative to other civilisational models? Are the contradictions of democracy and of capitalism simply too great?
Is there a clash of civilisations? Need there be?
