A Dialogue of Civilizations to Heal a Fractured World—Global Issues and the Role of China

We are livingHoward, Steve in a world thatGlobal Foundation, The is now severely geo-politically fractured, not just fragmented and, without a major turnaround, this condition is likely to worsen, with serious consequences. The opening up of the world to trade and commerce in the 1980’s and 1990’s looked for a long while as a win–win proposition for all, lifting millions from poverty in the developing world, but there were both winners and losers with inequalities arising within and across national borders. Meanwhile, the hollowing out of some advanced economies due to unfettered globalization has fuelled fears of the rise of the ‘other’. We must revisit and embrace a ‘dialogue between civilisations’ that goes deeper and higher than nation-state geopolitics and that respects and regards the ‘other’ in a renewed spirit of ‘co-operative globalization’.