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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | D 860 .K335 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 601431 |
D 860 .G654 2000 Globalization and the challenges of a new century : a reader / | D 860 .H86 1996 The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order / | D 860 .H86 2002 The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order / | D 860 .K335 2008 The return of history and the end of dreams / | D 862 .H33 2006 Time of Transitions / | D 862 .S639 2012 I made my choice-have you? : one man's thoughts on issues in our national news and possible solutions / | D 862 .T56 2005 Time annual. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-[116]).
Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains unipolar, but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics. Finally, radical Islamists are waging a violent struggle against the modern secular cultures and powers that, in their view, have dominated, penetrated, and polluted their Islamic world. The grand expectation that after the Cold War the world would enter an era of international geopolitical convergence has proven wrong. For the past few years, the liberal world has been internally divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. Now, inThe Return of History and the End ofDreams, Robert Kagan masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it for them._ provided by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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