false 2611798 6 <p>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 &#8220;unipolar,&#8221; 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.<br><br>For the past few years, the liberal world has been internally divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. Now, in <i>The Return of History and the End of</i> <i>Dreams</i>, 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.</p> 2636446 29 4 2008 The Return of History and the End of Dreams total:92|5:16|4:39|3:26|2:6|1:5| 92 331 163 26 4 5 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 05 00:38:53 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 22 16:30:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 07:04:03 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:59:20 -0700 2009
This concise read paints a very realistic and thoroughly resear...more...]]> 4 1 true false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 14:35:43 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 10:21:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 14:30:39 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 14:47:17 -0700 2009 The Return of History, and the End of Dreams is a short (105 pages), troubling book on the state of the world, its great powers, and what the future could hold. Kagan is one of the neocons, and seems quite at home w/ the Big Picture, which sees a world roughly aligned between the democracies (the Un...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 24 11:31:01 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 11:42:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 19:44:51 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 23 13:34:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 06:33:11 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 05:29:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 13 13:22:33 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 13:22:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 06:32:45 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 06:36:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 11:31:07 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:49:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 05:46:53 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 20:49:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 27 02:16:33 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 14:09:09 -0800 2008 Mondadori, 2008]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 22:56:56 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 22:57:34 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Wed Feb 11 11:28:39 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 14:15:24 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Aug 03 06:04:59 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 06:08:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 06:53:44 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 16:37:43 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 00:04:39 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 00:17:55 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 05:25:47 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 05:27:43 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Sep 07 17:37:56 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 17:44:12 -0700 2008 2 0 true false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 25 19:52:45 -0800 2009 Tue May 05 13:33:13 -0700 2009