The decline of the West: Samir Puri on “Westlessness” and the new global order
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The decline of the West: Samir Puri on “Westlessness” and the new global order

By Lydia Khalil
28 April 2026

Samir Puri, former UK diplomat and author of Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing, joins Transnational Challenges Program Director Lydia Khalil to explore the long decline of Western dominance in world affairs. They discuss why the rise of the non-West is about far more than China's challenge to the United States, and how the BRICS bloc is reshaping global networks. They also explore what a more multipolar world means for a country like Australia — Western by heritage, but increasingly embedded in Asia.

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