This chapter sums up the main conclusive points that can be drawn so far from the previous chapters. In the main, it summarises the way in which the West’s contradictory economic and political developments since the 1970s have undermined its own primacy in global political economy, clearly conceding ground to Asian economies in the 1990s. Thus, the triumphalism of the collapse of Communism in the 1990s did not last long.
A First Set of Conclusions