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The West has fatally overestimated itself. What does this mean for the world?
Over the past thirty years, through a mixture of naivety and arrogance, the West has lost its global advantage. The challenges are profound: the rise of China, climate change, and the polarization of society. The triumph of the West had seemed unstoppable not that long ago. After the end of the Cold War, the democratic market economy took hold in the former Eastern Bloc, Russia went from being an enemy to a partner, and even China turned to capitalism. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that shook the world. The War on Terror destabilized an entire region; the Arab Spring only brought forth new autocracies; and, following the annexation of Crimea, the confrontation with Russia intensified. Instead of a liberal world order, a new world disorder has emerged.
Peter R. Neumann is an internationally acclaimed expert on terrorism and geopolitics. In this astute, burning analysis of global politics, he lays out the dangers the world will face if the West fails to reinvent itself.
“A far-sighted analysis of the world order, and an urgent warning of what the future may hold in store.”
—Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silk Roads
“Peter Neumann provides an incisive tour d’horizon of the mistakes and failures of the past three decades that have divided and weakened the West and undermined its liberal ideals. With clarity and concision, The New World Disorder explains both why this has happened and what can be done to reverse it.”
—Bruce Hoffman, author of God, Guns, and Sedition
Praise for Bluster:
“[A] damning verdict on a Trump administration that has shamed America while making us all less safe against the very real threat of terrorism.”
—David Frum, New York Times bestselling author of Trumpocracy
“Neumann is one of the world's top terrorism experts. Bluster is an excellent assessment of how American counterterrorism has changed under Trump, and perhaps more importantly, how it has not.”
—Daniel Byman, Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and author of A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism
“In this important book, Neumann argues that Donald Trump has undermined counterterrorism efforts by conflating terrorism with immigration and emboldening the far right at home while torching the United States’ soft power around the world. A timely, persuasive, and utterly devastating critique of Trump’s role in America’s longest war.”
—Erica Chenoweth, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard University
“An impressively well-reasoned and well-documented critique of the rhetoric and reality of the Trump Administration's approach to counterterrorism at home and abroad. Trump vociferously rejected his predecessors, but much has remained the same—and what has changed has made Americans less safe.”
—Martha Crenshaw, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Emerita, Stanford University, and Professor of Government, Emerita, at Wesleyan University
“In this cool and careful analysis, Neumann explores the tangible difference that Trump's inflammatory and blustering rhetoric has made to American efforts to counter-terrorism.”
—Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London and author of The Future of War: A History
“This calm and accessible book from a noted academic gives a well-organized account of Trump's damaging approach. I warmly commend it for its structured and well-argued analysis.”
—Methodist Recorder
“Bluster is meticulously researched, concisely organized and easy to read—an admirable review of the Trump administration's counterterrorism strategy.”
—LSE Review of Books
Introduction
Chapter 1
The New World Order
Chapter 2
Perpetual peace
Chapter 3
Who's afraid of Russia and China
Chapter 4
Techno-optimism
Chapter 5
The new terrorism
Chapter 6
Wake-Up Call 9/11
Chapter 7
The Good War
Chapter 8
Regime Change
Chapter 9
Market Excesses
Chapter 10
Arab Spring?
Chapter 11
France's Adventure
Chapter 12
The Syrian Disaster
Chapter 13
German–Russian Illusions
Chapter 14
Europe Under Pressure
Chapter 15
The Brexit Revolt
Chapter 16
A Populist in the White House
Chapter 17
China’s Authoritarian Modernity
Chapter 17
Climate Emergency
Conclusion
Towards a more sustainable modernity
Notes