Rekindling the Rushdie affair

As a nation attains economic and political power, inevitably it sees itself — and others see it as well —  as some sort of a model. The best examples of this phenomenon came during the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet Union began to project the manner in which they organised economic resources — capitalist and market-driven in one case, collectivist and state-determined in the other — as ideas for other countries to adopt.

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