The Fall of the West

Owen Jones

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Almost everywhere we turn these days, there's talk of a West in decline. Our jobs, our values, our past are all under attack, in the face of which we have become immersed in self-loathing, gone weak at the knees: the West needs to be Made Great Again. We know where this toxic narrative comes from: the nationalist, nativist Right. And now it's gone mainstream. The thing is, the West is in decline, self-evidently so. But the truth is that it's not migrants or Muslims or a woke mob which has brought the West to the edge of catastrophe. It's good, old-fashioned hubris. In this book, Owen Jones explores how, amid the triumphalist sugar rush that came with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West came to believe that its rule, its economic order, its moral values, would endure for ever - and how, over a quarter-century, this brittle self-mythologising narrative collapsed in on itself.


Author(s): Jones, Owen
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 01/10/2026
Pagination: 336 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Allen Lane
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Classification: Geopolitics|Nationalism|Political economy|General & world history
Dimensions: 243 x 164 x 43
Weight: 720
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241740644

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