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The power of the transatlantic axis that used to run the world is slipping away, and the sense of losing control is being felt by these countries’ political elites and ordinary citizens alike.
India’s corrupt elites had moved from controlling licenses to cornering newly valuable resources like land.
Globalization, free trade, immigration, and inequality have been long ignored by elites elsewhere as well.
Will the law serve all, or only the elites?
Many find only reason for despair in the global rise of powers like China and India, whose elites were socialized in opposition to the Western-led order from which R2P emerged.
Populism may be on the rise, and elites may be deeply unpopular.
In short, the biggest risk to China’s continued development is not a crisis, but the failure of its political leaders and intellectual elites to recognize the need to transform a growth strategy that has proved successful so far.
French elites, however, have opposing objectives.
Populist demagogues blame political, cultural, and commercial elites for the anxieties of the modern world.
But if the elites are hated for causing our modern malaise, the Muslims are envied for still having faith, for knowing who they are, for having something that is worth dying for.
Diplomatic obstruction is not the only means Russian elites use to foster antagonism with the US.
Putin has essentially nationalized Russia’s elites.
Elites will not willingly reform education if doing so puts their survival at risk.
This brings us to a crucial obstacle: Government, business, financial, and academic elites are not trusted.
Lack of trust in elites is probably healthy at some level, but numerous polls indicate that it is in rapid decline, which surely increases citizens’ reluctance to delegate authority to navigate an uncertain global economic environment.
But a more important cause is a suspicion that elites are placing their own interests above shared social values.
One of Russia’s leading independent economists, Sergei Guriev, the rector of the New Economic School in Moscow, soberly noted in 2010 that“meaningful reforms look highly unlikely – for the simple reason that they would harm the interests of Russia’s ruling elites.
Tocqueville despised the elites of his time for their complacency in the face of the deracinating force of mass democracy.
The many movies that critically revise settled national narratives suggest that people are no longer willing to accept history that has been crafted by elites for their own purposes.
After all, the tribute that the Kremlin pays Kadyrov and the corrupted elites of the other Caucasian republics has purchased palaces and gold pistols for men who are driving the region’s young, unemployed, and disadvantaged down the path of Islamic revolution.
And for rural households facing slightly higher fuel taxes, it is convenient to believe that climate change is just a hoax propagated by political elites and “the media.”
After the Cold War, Russian elites believed that European Union and NATO enlargement, and Western efforts at democracy promotion, were designed to isolate and threaten Russia.
Business elites were not any less politically powerful back then.
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
Above all, Europe’s political elites must offer citizens the one thing that might lead to agreement on the EU’s future: an end to over-standardization and the appropriation of national sovereignty through excessively detailed regulation.
Here, too, such efforts – which disprove claims that the EU is nothing more than a club of neoliberal capitalist elites – must be publicized more effectively.
Putting the Populist Revolt in Its PlaceCAMBRIDGE – In many Western democracies, this is a year of revolt against elites.
Antipathy toward elites can be caused by both economic and cultural resentments.
Instead, policy elites who support globalization and an open economy will have to be seen to be addressing economic inequality and adjustment assistance for those disrupted by change.
Americans also tend to view meritocracy and technocracy as “rule by elites” – and, specifically, liberal elites.
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