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At one level, Asian history has been dominated by rival elites from China, "Turkestan," India, Persia, "Arabia", Japan, and Java (to name but a few examples) who claimed to lead separate indigenous cultural entities.
This was relatively easy during the Cold War, as Asia's postcolonial elites were forced to choose sides in a conflict of ideologies.
Nevertheless, French and German elites have found a common cause for concern: Germany may be unable to seize the exceptional opportunity created by French President Emmanuel Macron’s victory.
It is up to European citizens and elites to avoid the worst.
Everywhere nowadays, key decisions are made by a self-selected group of elites, often in non-transparent circumstances.
But then critics shift ground and argue that trade-driven growth benefits only the elites and not the poor; it is not “inclusive.”
It is not likely that northern elites will stand by idly as a fresh attempt is made to take away what they consider a glittering prize.
But this short-run fall in the price of oil should not let us lose sight of the long-term political problem; namely the fact that the major part of the present oil production is concentrated in countries governed by autocracies which use oil resources to maintain repressive patronage regimes, finance extravagant consumption by the elites, and acquire a terrifying amount of arms.
These two large emerging countries are still led by authoritarian governments, headed by ruling elites who – given how much wealth they have amassed – may be the most corrupt in history.
But it would not have existed without the active and willing participation of African elites.
If Africans want to change this, they cannot spare themselves a collective debate about their elites’ complicity in widespread impoverishment.
In these countries, oligarchs and the organized underworld have not captured the state; rather, an organized “upperworld” of elites have captured the economy, including the oligarchs themselves.
In terms of structure and culture, these arrangements resemble an adopted family, which the regime creates by systematically replacing political and economic elites.
In a democracy, these elites would be autonomous actors.
The French Revolution never actually ended the privileges of France’s ruling elites.
There are no Japanese demagogues, like Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, or Rodrigo Duterte, who have exploited pent-up resentments against cultural or political elites.
The Westernized cosmopolitan urban elites were the enemy.
Populists find support among those resentful faces in the crowd, people who feel that elites have betrayed them, by taking away their sense of pride in their class, their culture, or their race.
Those who now feel adrift blame their predicament on elites who are better educated and sometimes more talented – and thus better able to thrive in a global economy.
To govern legitimately, Bolsonaro would need to secure widespread public support and among political and business elites.
These newly rich provincials resent the old Istanbul elite as much as businessmen from Texas or Kansas hate the East Coast elites of New York and Washington.
Baathism was dictatorial and oppressive – often brutally so – but it protected minorities and the secular elites.
There are countless examples of super-rich elites – to whom our political leaders seem beholden – pursuing their naked self-interest and profits at any cost.
A frequent one in the US is that global elites are plotting – via the Bilderberg Group and the Council on Foreign Relations, among others – to establish a “One World Government” dominated by themselves rather than national governments.
National politicians – from the Brexiteers to Trump – are the ones espousing divisive policies, refusing to acknowledge the importance of cooperation and ethics in policymaking, lambasting traditional elites and state institutions, and praising autocrats, including Putin himself.
In Mill’s view, an open society ruled mainly by educated elites is the most desirable form of government.
That should be the task of meritocratically selected elites.
But choosing educated elites is only part of the story.
The elites are also supposed to rule in the interest of all, and to allow for their voices to be heard.
Just as the possibility of Brexit was initially dismissed, few political elites, Republican and Democratic alike, took seriously Trump’s bid for the Republican nomination.
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