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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword by Fouad Ajami -- Prologue -- On a Ship to Oman -- On the Train to the Army-Navy Game -- CHAPTER ONE: Two World Orders -- Christendom and Caliphate -- Duality or Unity? -- "The Turk" and "Oriental Despotism" -- Three World-Historical Events -- CHAPTER TWO: The Modern Ordering Takes Shape -- 1648 -- The Enlightenment Views the Prophet -- The Sick Man of Europe -- CHAPTER THREE: The Wars on World Order -- The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars -- The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1866 -- The American Civil War and the Utah War -- The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 -- The Great War -- World War II: Imperial Japan and the Third Reich -- The Cold War -- The Indian Mutiny and the International System -- CHAPTER FOUR: An Islamic Challenge Takes Shape -- 1979: Iran -- 1979: Saudi Arabia -- 1979: Pakistan -- 1979: Afghanistan -- 1979: Egypt -- 1979: Saddam's Iraq-Bonfire of the Pathologies -- The Lost Decade of the 1990s -- The Islamist War on World Order, Well Underway -- Saddam Overthrown -- Saddam's Strategy -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Shock of Recognition -- Centers of Gravity -- Legal -- Military -- The State -- Women -- Democracy -- Nuclear Weapons -- Values -- CHAPTER SIX: In the Matter of Grand Strategy -- Religion in World Order Revisited -- Epilogue: On the Road to Oxiana -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- About the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order -- Index.

Classical orders -- Creative disorder -- Sources of modern world order -- What kind of state? -- Enlightenment : critique of diplomacy, state, and system -- America : a new idea -- Disorder and war -- The imported state -- The writer and the state -- Epilogue: Talleyrand and everything else

Here, Hill presents, in a rhetorical tour de force, a dystopic retrospective on the West, which once represented a combination of ideas and politics that aspired to extraordinary brilliance but which failed due to its own internal flaws. The hyperbole of his narrative and its crushing discouragement suggest that it is intended as a warning rather than as a summative judgment. Yet even if it is a literary satire, his vision is unsparingly bleak, and his prospects for the West are slim, unless a dramatic reversal of fortune takes place. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on books by (1) Richard J. Art, A Grand Strategy for America (Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 2003); (2) Charles A. Kupchan, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); (3) Bradford A. Lee & Karl Walling (Eds), Strategic Logic and Political Rationality: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel (London: Frank Cass, 2003); & (4) Max G. Manwaring, Edwin G. Corr, & Robert H. Dorff [Eds], The Search for Security: A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003).