Trial of a thousand years : world order and Islamism / Charles Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Charles, 1936-2021.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 607.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 607

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and world politics.

Islam and international relations.

International relations.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

World order and Islamism

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Hill analyzes the refusal of the ideologues of pan-Islam to accept the boundaries and responsibilities of the order of states. He offers a historical perspective on the war of Islamism against the nation-state system, looking at changes in world order from the Thirty Years' War of the seventeenth century to Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Foreword by Fouad Ajami; Prologue; On a Ship to Oman; On the Train to the Army-Navy Game; CHAPTER ONE: Two World Orders; Christendom and Caliphate; Duality or Unity?; "The Turk" and "Oriental Despotism"; Three World-Historical Events; CHAPTER TWO: The Modern Ordering Takes Shape; 1648; The Enlightenment Views the Prophet; The Sick Man of Europe; CHAPTER THREE: The Wars on World Order; The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars; The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1866; The American Civil War and the Utah War

The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 The Great War; World War II: Imperial Japan and the Third Reich; The Cold War; The Indian Mutiny and the International System; CHAPTER FOUR: An Islamic Challenge Takes Shape; 1979: Iran; 1979: Saudi Arabia; 1979: Pakistan; 1979: Afghanistan; 1979: Egypt; 1979: Saddam's Iraq-Bonfire of the Pathologies; The Lost Decade of the 1990's; The Islamist War on World Order, Well Underway; Saddam Overthrown; Saddam's Strategy; CHAPTER FIVE: The Shock of Recognition; Centers of Gravity; Legal; Military; The State; Women; Democracy; Nuclear Weapons; Values

CHAPTER SIX: In the Matter of Grand Strategy Religion in World Order Revisited; Epilogue: On the Road to Oxiana; Bibliography; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817913267

0817913262

9780817913281

0817913289

OCLC:

923122235