- What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet?

- The receding of Western power is speeding up, shaking the ground under our feet

- In Westlessness, Dr Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into a far more diverse global future

- Many of our certainties about the present, built on centuries of massive Western global impact, are increasingly fragile. Nothing is ...

A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics today