Western decline stems from the global spread of Western institutions, not their fading

Evidence

The declining grip of the West over the rest of the world is not a result of the diminishing impact of the institutions which first arose there but, on the contrary, a result of their global spread. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 128

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Luhmann and Giddens’s system-diffusion logic—institutional forms persist and spread even as the original hegemon loses primacy. — connects to: Cultural change can follow institutional change rather than precede it — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2237

Broader Connections

• Cultural change can follow institutional change rather than precede it #corroborates (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 2237