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Whispers of Western Alarmism

Richard David Hames

Following an article I posted on social media today rCo "Dealing with CRINK" looked at disparities between on-the-ground reports of the Xi-hosted SCO meeting in Beijing and most Western accounts rCo I want here to examine a recurrent pattern in Anglophone policy commentary since roughly 2014rCo especially across elite US/UK magazines, op-ed pages, and major think tank briefsrCowithout claiming or implying universality across the Western world.

The tendency in view is a tone of breathless panic, tinged with attrition, whenever non-Western powers outside liberal democratic frameworks
demonstrate cohesion or assertiveness. Such moments are too frequently
cast not just as threats but as omens of disorder. Analysis gives way to interpretation, speculation, and intensely emotive rhetoric, underwritten
by a persistent bias thatrCointentionally or notrCoreinscribes Western centrality and exceptionalism. In the language of futures thinking, what presents as rCLnow-castingrCY is often a narrative loop that simplifies the system to preserve the system.

Not all Western analysis fits this pattern. Realist and restraint-
orientated voicesrCoBarry Posen, Stephen Walt, Jeffrey Sachs, and John MearsheimerrCoalongside scholars such as Emma Ashford, Jessica Chen Weiss, Evelyn Goh, and Ay+fe Zarakol, and journalistic investigations by Carol Cadwalladr into platform incentives and disinformation, as well as postcolonial and Global South perspectives in venues such as International Affairs and Third World Quarterly, have repeatedly foregrounded structural drivers and small-state agency. The argument here is directed at a
prevalent mediarCothink tank discourse that shapes day-to-day perceptions
and policy mood music, not at the full spectrum of Western scholarship.

rCa

https://richarddavidhames.substack.com/p/whispers-of-western-alarmism

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