West/Non-West: Funhouse Mirror of World Politics

... via its contrasting to the global East (Asia and Africa), first of all, to Arabs, Turks, and Russians. For this purpose, the West artificially attributed to the East antagonistic traits, such as tyranny, mysticism, collectivism. This process called orientalism was challenged by the opposite one known as occidentalism characterized by the East’s describing the West in terms opposite to its self-description (exceptionalism, expansionism and mercantilism). Andrey Kortunov: False Conflict: Universalism ...