MEDIA NARRATIVE WARFARE: Perception is Everything

The West Should Give Up the Battle of Narratives

The Western world has misunderstood what the global south really wants.

By Julien Barnes-Dacey, the director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Jeremy Shapiro

U.S. President Joe Biden talks to fellow leaders during the group photo at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Dec. 15, 2022 in Washington.

U.S. President Joe Biden talks to fellow leaders during the group photo at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Dec. 15, 2022 in Washington. KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGES

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023, 2:37 AM

"Live your true life, all the self-help books tell us. Embrace who you are, own your faults, become better by turning them into strengths. 

It’s cheap pop psychology, but it might be liberating for repressed individuals and, we would argue, for Western civilization. 

It is time for the West to finally own its truth and set itself free. . ."

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