Publication

1998 - Westview Press, Boulder, Colo, Colorado

Language

English

Word Count

50,750 words, Guess

Page Count

203 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1432917
  • Goodreads852218

Classifications

  • DDC909.82/5
  • LCCD842 .C585 1998

Description

In Twilight of the West, Christopher Coker offers an interpretation of why the Western Alliance is in serious trouble and why it may have entered the twilight of its collective life. Divided into three parts, the book first looks at the cultural forces that brought the Western powers together in 1941 and prompted them to build an Atlantic Community. Where the Alliance failed, however, was in taking hold where it counted most - in the European imagination. The second part addresses the present-day consciousness of both Europe and the United States as they prepare for the twenty-first century. In the final section, Coker examines two key questions: whether the West can escape the undertow of violence that marks the end of the millennium and whether the challenges from East Asia and the Islamic world are of such magnitude that the West will have to reinvent itself.

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