Russia is no longer in fashion in Western intellectual circles.

"To talk about debt forgiveness would have a very, very negative effect in the Western financial circles he is trying to impress," a Western diplomat said.

His own theory of philosophy, however, is not fully accepted by either Korean or Western philosophical circles.

For a while, the future looked rosy, and Mozambique was fêted in left-wing Western circles as a successful communist state.

These ideas, along with his clearly Protestant belief system, garnered the Taiping rebellion interest in Western circles.

His opinion, as one of the most successful opposition leaders, is widely taken into account in the Western political circles.

Averroes had a greater impact on Western European circles and he has been described as the "founding father of secular thought in Western Europe".

Similar controversies were known in Western aeronautical circles but typified Soviet dogmatism which held that problems had immutable, "scientifically-correct" solutions.

Buckminster Fuller is generally credited with making the idea respectable in Western scientific circles in the 20th century.

He greatly expanded the role of Chinese studies in Western intellectual circles.