The Restoration of Politics Interrogating History about a Civilization in Crisis

by Liska, George

• ISBN13: 9780847682133
• ISBN10: 0847682137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Professor Liska is that rarity--a writer on international politics with a genuinely profound knowledge of history. Sensitive to both the tragic and the farcical dimensions of human affairs, of over 15 books on international relations, and his most recent book, Return to the Heartland and Rebirth of the Old Order: Reconceptualizing the Environment of Strategies for East-Central Europe and Beyond (Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1994) is distributed by the University Press of America.

Table of Contents

Author's Prefatory Note
Introduction. A Revolution for American Byzantium	p. 1
Discourse I. About Past and Present: Salient Challenges and Particular Responses	p. 9
Interrogation I. A Civil War: Symptom or Emblem?	p. 23
Discourse II. About the Two Cities of Man: Insecure Prosperity and Rebelling Poverty	p. 33
Interrogation II. A Crisis: Global or National?	p. 47
Discourse III. About Principles and Practice: Imperfect Politics and Grand Strategy	p. 53
Interrogation III. A Contract: With Self or the World?	p. 69
Discourse IV. From Present to Future: Predicaments and Prophecy	p. 77
Interrogation IV. A Civilization: Atlanticist or Euro-American?	p. 93
Conclusion: Historicist Intuition versus Postmodern Revolutions	p. 101
Notes	p. 125
Index	p. 127
About the Author	p. 133
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