Andrew A. Michta: "Our elites must relearn patriotism"

Dean of the European Center for Security Studies George-C.-Marshall (*), and great editorialist for the journal The American Interest , this American intellectual believes that the United States and the West in general are going through a crisis of civilization linked to the damage of an education system imbued with a neomarxist ideology which has deconstructed the national identity of our countries. The cohesion of our democracies, already weakened by the excesses of globalization, is in danger, he warns, convinced that China will benefit from it, if an intellectual aggiornamento does not occur within our universities and in our relations with Beijing.

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LE FIGARO. - In 1989, the West celebrated the triumph of liberal democracy. Thirty years later, we are announcing a “post-western” world and the emergence of a Chinese century… What have we missed to get there?

Andrew A. MICHTA. - We fundamentally misunderstood the meaning of the end of the Cold War. So while just celebrating

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