The struggle for the West : a divided and contested legacy / edited by Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Browning, Christopher S., 1974-

Lehti, Marko.

Series:

Routledge critical security series.

Routledge critical security series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Politics and government.

Western countries--Politics and government.

Western countries.

Civilization, Western.

Physical Description:

vi, 236 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

1 Introduction: new tensions in a troubled partnership / Christopher S. Browning, Marko Lehti 1

Part I Foundations of the West 13

2 The West: contested, narrated and clustered / Christopher S. Browning, Marko Lehti 15

3 The Russian dawn: how Russia contributed to the emergence of 'the west' as a concept / Peggy Heller 33

4 The perpetual decline of the West / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson 53

Part II The dividing legacy of the West 71

5 Rebooting the West: can the Western alliance still engage in war? / Christopher Coker 73

6 American West vs European West: a struggle for ownership and legitimacy / Marko Lehti 90

Part III Europe, America and alternative core Wests 115

7 European identity, post-Western Europe, and complex cultural diversity / Paul Blokker, Gerard Delanty 117

8 Difference within similarity: the puzzle of transatlantic relations / Pertti Joenniemi 135

9 Beyond the West and towards the Anglosphere? / Christopher S. Browning, Ben Tonra 161

Part IV Remaking the West in the margins 183

10 Western hegemony, global democracy and the Russian challenge / Viatcheslav Morozov 185

11 Asian Occidentalism and rediscovered modernities / Alastair Bonnett 201

12 Conclusion: the resilient West? / Christopher S. Browning 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415476836

0415476836

9780203867358

0203867351

OCLC:

229019524