Modernization Versus Westernization

Modernization à la Carte?

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(a) Modernization of trade practices.

Modernization runs into the opposite problems.

Conservative modernization is a gamble.

We have an innovative approach.

But modernization à la carte is an illusion.

In most cases, modernization is identified with Westernization.

But will Americans newfound moderation last?

For Ataturk, Westernization and modernization went hand in hand.

(c) Modernization of information and communication technology and advancement of indigenous technology

In Africa, per capita GNP dropped at an average rate of .7 annually between 1970 and 1995.

Economic modernization and poverty reduction suffered.

The modernization of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century started with the military.

You would still expect major social and cultural changes from such modernization.

Above all, the successful modernization of a large Muslim country will make a decisive contribution to Europe s security.

Putin s military build up and modernization of the past decade was also fueled by energy exports.

All the money is trapped in the property market, and the upgrading of industry is going slow.

Elsewhere, prisons in Rwanda are using their 30,000 inmates sewage to provide biogas for cooking and compost for growing vegetables.

Indeed, modernization by no means implies a solution to the conflicts that continue to fester in the region.

The country's subsequent modernization and World War II left English the nation's most common language.

On the contrary, retrofitting the global economy for climate change would help to restore aggregate demand and growth.

In fact, modernization does not entail Westernization, as the example of contemporary Japan demonstrates.

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Professionals have been integral parts of such movements, because modernization encourages action rather than resignation.

Since the days of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, the modernization of Turkey has relied on its Western or European perspective.

Instead, like many Islamic countries today, India wrongly believed Gandhi's doctrine that modernization necessarily means Westernization.

Notwithstanding booming oil and gas revenues, its infrastructure remains underdeveloped, and successful economic modernization is a long way off.

Real modernization and real growth are the only things that will block Uruguay's unmodernized Left from power next time.

Others argue that reform and modernization will enable Russia to surmount its problems, and that its leadership is headed in this direction.

Finally, globalization, the pressures arising from market reform, modernization of institutions, and other new phenomena, disrupt and disorient these societies.

This clash within civilizations on what modernization means is more significant than Huntington s alleged conflict between geographical entities.

Two months before the vote, the presidential campaign has demonstrated that the modernization, if not Americanization, of French politics (for example, heavy use of the Internet) has taken hold.

General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

Indeed, political modernization faces massive opposition from the Chinese Communist Party, which has no interest in surrendering its monopoly of power.

And with paper money particularly large denomination notes arguably doing more harm than good, currency modernization is long overdue.

The vital interests guiding Chinese policy are internal modernization, the ruling regime s political stability and survival, and the country s unity (which includes Taiwan).

Outside a fringe of nostalgic chauvinists, however, most Europeans and Japanese are no longer so convinced that modernization is sufficient validation of imperial rule.

Its proponents forget the experience of the first half of the twentieth century, when authoritarian modernization was tried in both Germany and Russia with disastrous results.

Improving and modernizing the conference facilities at the United Nations Office at Nairobi in order to accommodate adequately major meetings and conferences

If we accept the above definition of the West as a mindset, this leaves open three major questions can the East be modernized without being Westernized?

Rather, it means opting for a controlled transition to a post revolutionary phase in which economic modernization and international integration might usher in greater political change in the future.

Whereas modernization entails a change in belief about the way the material world operates, Westernization entails a change in cosmological beliefs about the way that one should live.