The West

Extracted Attributes

• Core Components

  United States, European Union, Canada, United Kingdom

• Major Alliances

  NATO

• Political System

  Liberal Democracy

• Economic Challenges

  Loss of Russian energy supplies, competition from China

• Philosophical Roots

  Western Europe, Ancient Greece, Enlightenment

• Primary Economic Order

  Dollar Hegemony

• Geopolitical Status (2024 Forecast)

  Loser

Timeline

• Predicted to emerge as a major geopolitical loser due to strategic failures in Ukraine and the Middle East. (Source: Document 5cad4e4e-79e4-401e-9806-ecf722cd9b15)

  2024-01-01

• Forecasted economic decline in Germany due to energy loss and Chinese competition impacts the bloc's strength. (Source: Document 5cad4e4e-79e4-401e-9806-ecf722cd9b15)

  2024-01-01

• Anticipated breakdown of the US two-party system and rise of independent candidates like RFK Jr. threatens internal stability. (Source: Document 5cad4e4e-79e4-401e-9806-ecf722cd9b15)

  2024-01-01

West (disambiguation)

West is a cardinal direction or compass point. West or The West may also refer to:

Web Search Results

• The West | Definition, States, Map, & History - Britannica

  the West, region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including, by federal government definition, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Virtually every part of the United States except the Eastern Seaboard has been “the West” at some point in American history, linked in popular imagination with the last frontier of American settlement. But especially it is that vast stretch of plains, mountains, and deserts [...] United States: The problem of the West [...] (1940 to the late 1970s) and nearly doubled the West’s percentage of the national value added by manufacture. No longer merely a land of “wide, open spaces,” cattle, mines, and mountains, the West has become famous for other things: for example, the motion-picture industry in southern California, gambling in Nevada, aerospace production in Washington and California, environmental protection in Oregon, and retirement communities in Arizona.

• What Is The West? - Jack Krupansky

  The West can also be defined as the countries and institutions which derived their political, economic, social, religious, and philosophical beliefs primarily from the traditions of Western Europe, primarily the UK, France, and Germany, with influences from Spain and Italy as well. And further back, Greece. Countries with a similar heritage, values, and interests would be included as well, such as Canada. [...] The West is also closely associated with the so-called Liberal World Order. Technically, the two are distinct but overlapping, with the Liberal World Order being global and all-inclusive by definition, although in practice the values and institutions of the Liberal World Order get their overall character, direction, and marching orders from The West, the U.S. and the EU or Western Europe. [...] In truth, the West, like democracy, is more of an idea, an ideal, rather than some fixed, stationary, geographic region.

• What is "the West"? - The Bill Lane Center for the American West

  What is "the West"? Cowboys riding into the sunset? Sweeping plains of sagebrush and snow-topped mountains stretching for miles? Surfers and big cities along the coast? The answer to all of these questions is "yes." However, the stories of the West that capture our imaginations are often born of myth and perpetuated by collective imaginings and re-imaginings. Through our course on the American West and our initiatives, the Bill Lane Center strives to understand the complicated history of this [...] As viewed through a historical lens, one might define the West as the last part of the North American continent to be settled by Europeans. Climatologically speaking, the region’s aridity is its most salient feature, as water shortage has influenced so much of Western history, development and public policy. The dry landscape also accounts in part for the fact that so much of the West comprises public land, with the federal government owning more than 50 percent of the region’s surface area. In [...] Geographically speaking, we at the Bill Lane Center define the American West as the United States west of the 100th meridian, Canada west of Ontario, and all of Mexico, with open arms toward the broader Pacific region. But as anyone who has studied the West knows, the complexities of its history, culture, climate, institutions, politics, demography and economy amount to a regional identity that is so much more than physical place. “There are a lot of different ways to define the American West,

• Western world

  Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, Western society, or simply the West, is the internally diverse culture of the Western world. The term "Western" encompasses the social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies primarily rooted in European and Mediterranean histories. A broad concept, "Western culture" does not relate to a region with fixed members or geographical [...] Western world have become notable for their diversity due to immigration and changes in fertility rates. The idea of "the West" over the course of time has evolved from a directional concept to a socio-political concept—temporalized and rendered as a concept of the future bestowed with notions of progress and modernity. [...] Since the Renaissance, the West evolved beyond the influence of the ancient Greeks and Romans and the Islamic world, due to the successful Second Agricultural, Commercial, Scientific, and Industrial revolutions (propellers of modern banking concepts). The West rose further with the 18th century's Age of Enlightenment and through the Age of Exploration's expansion of peoples of European empires in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly the globe-spanning colonial empires of Western Europe.

• Western United States - Wikipedia

  The West is one of the most sparsely settled areas in the United States with 49.5 inhabitants per square mile (19.1 inhabitants/km2). Only Texas with 78.0 inhabitants/mi2 (30.1 inhabitants/km2), Washington "Washington (state)") with 86.0 inhabitants/mi2 (33.2 inhabitants/km2), and California with 213.4 inhabitants/mi2 (82.4 inhabitants/km2) exceed the national average of 77.98 inhabitants/mi2 (30.11 inhabitants/km2). As of 2022, just under half of the 78.7 million residents of the West live in [...] The Western United States (also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, the Western territories, and the West) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. [...] The West contains several major biomes, including arid and semi-arid plateaus and plains, particularly in the American Southwest; forested mountains, including three major ranges, the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and Rocky Mountains; the long coastal shoreline of the Pacific Coast; and the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. ## Geographic definition [edit] Further information: American frontier

• Instance Of

  Q3305213

• Inception Date

  1/1/2017