'The West is no longer the Motor of History'

UCLA history professor Vinay Lal speaks to the Indian website Newsclick about "the new movements developing in different parts of the world–from West Asia, North Africa to Europe and the United States. He sees the possibility of new politics emerging from this and how it can reconfigure the nation state." There's also a Part 2 to the interview with Lal. It may be worth spending a day or two with Newslick interviews with experts to educate yourself on some refreshing, other than Western or non-hegemonic viewpoints on what gets covered as "international news."

* H/T to the latest edition of Zunguzungu's regular "Sunday Reading" posts, which I can never finish by the time the next Sunday comes around. Feels like graduate school.