Although there is an outcrop of theories in social and human sciences, none of them is adequate to explain the reality of the fast-changing and vastly complex world of today, primarily because, in spite of the pretentious labels they bear and the seemingly conflicting ideologies they espouse, they are all moored to one particular civilizational perspective (that of the West). The author argues that the only meaningful theory can be one that is cross-civilizationally comparative, because such a theory alone can mediate the conflictual restructuring of world power, now unmistakably under way.
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