ABSTRACT
The growth of the Islamic State has caused panic and anxiety in the Eurasian society, and it also boosted the expansion of political extremism worldwide. In recent years, a wave of political conservatism has gradually emerged, which also triggered cultural contradictions between different civilizations. This chapter argues that the reason for such cultural radicalization lies in the disequilibrium of global governance. Although it is normal and acceptable that global cultural governance remains relatively undeveloped compared with its economic and political counterparts, once the gap becomes too large to maintain the mechanism of global governance, the problems of culture might trigger global crises in other domains. In this regard, we might call such a phenomenon the “cultural lag” in global governance.
