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The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Robert Kagan
Knopf
May 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
128 pages
ISBN: 030726923X
EAN: 9780307269232
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
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.
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