And – lastly, so far as these big issues are concerned – there's his claim, repeated throughout the book, that "western" predominance in the world has lasted 500 years, no less.
At present, he says, we are experiencing "the end of 500 years of Western predominance," and he foresees the possibility of a clash between the declining and rising forces.
In late 2011, this narrative has crescendoed, with experts arguing that China has surpassed the United States economically, Niall Ferguson declaring that we are at "the end of 500 years of Western predominance" and The National Interest proclaiming "the end of the American era".
Historian Niall Ferguson calls this shift the end of 500 years of Western predominance.
In this history TRIZ plays a significant role, although it is hardly acknowledged because of the predominance of western creativity stereotypes within current scientific discourses.
After more than a century where the automobile ruled our (western) mobile world, the predominance of this powerful artefact finally is about to reach its limits—at least, this is a rumor, currently spread widely within the social sciences, transport studies and sociology, although the direction of change is not yet clear [cf. 11, 18, 31, 32].
This strong male predominance in Western countries is also age-related [ 9, 10], differs by histological type [ 7], but seems unexplained by the differences in the prevalence of some known risk factors between males and females [ 5].
Of note, the patient who lost the kidney function had prominent endothelial cell injury and significant chronic damage on the kidney biopsy, and he was the only one with detectable anti-GBM antibodies in serum by western blot, with a predominance of IgG1 subtype on immunofluorescence microscopy.
The Three Emperors' League (comprising Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary) of the same year brought Russian recognition of Habsburg predominance in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula.
The loss of naval supremacy not only deprived the Carthaginians of their predominance in the western Mediterranean but exposed their overseas empire to disintegration under renewed attacks by Rome.
In the face of, and partly because of, the challenges of the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Cold War, liberals reshaped American society, inaugurating an era of unrivalled prosperity, expanded civil rights, vastly increased access to education, and American predominance in the Western world.
