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Octavo, 7 3/4? tall, 116 pages, gilt titles on blue quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat original hard cover edition with minor shelf wear; binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
Publisher's Description:
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, in "The Return of History and the End of""Dreams," 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.
Title: The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Edition: First edition
ISBN Number: 030726923X
ISBN-13: 9780307269232
Location Published: Alfred A. Knopf: NY: 2008-04-28
Binding: hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Size: 8x0x5
Type: hardcover
Categories: Politics
Seller ID: 62763
Keywords: foreign affairs, politics
