This, in turn, has led to a remarkable turnaround: states once viewed as a threat to western power and wealth are repositioning themselves as saviours.

That should be a basic principle on which every western power can agree without reservation.

Those who lack such a figurehead, far from the centres of western power, struggle to be heard.

So far these activities owe more to the theatre of political engagement than to any long-term attempt to assert western power over an unruly world.

Her goal was to produce a series of images that question current assumptions about the primacy of western power.