World Crisis

The Way Forward After Iraq

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• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781602393431
• eBook ISBN: 9781510720626
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

With no end to the War on Terror in sight, how do we plan for the future? Many recent books address facets of the "world crisis" of today—international relations, energy, poverty, and, of course, the Iraq War and Middle Eastern reconstruction—but they do not engage with the entire post-Iraq situation faced by the West, nor do they give suggestions for moving forward.The World Crisis, with essays by statesmen and thinkers from Jimmy Carter to Henry Kissinger, is a broad treatment of a massive set of problems. Nineteen "wise men" of immense experience in global politics (Nunn and Lugar, Freeman and Brzezinski, Heseltine and Carlucci, and more) tell us what to do next after the debacles of Western intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have tested our faith in government. The essays in this book address the war, nuclear non-proliferation, Western dependence on Middle Eastern oil, global warming and the environment, humanitarian crises, inequality of wealth, Israel and Palestine, and emergent powers.The World Crisisis non-partisan; what unites these writers is that their eyes are open. In an election year, when the crucial issue dividing (or is it uniting?) the electorate is Iraq, clear vision is more important than ever.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword: Towards a Safer World
• Introduction: The World Century
• 1. Reclaiming the Values of the United States
• 2. The Post-Westphalian World
• 3. Protecting the Golden Moment
• 4. British Foreign Policy: the Folly of Iraq
• 5. Doing Our Fighting Men and Women Justice
• 6. Uniting Our Enemies and Dividing Our Friends
• 7. Traditionalists vs Transformationists
• 8. The United States Cannot Stand Alone
• 9. The Bridge of Dreams
• 10. Forging Nuclear Warheads into Lightbulbs
• 11. The Challenge of Energy Security
• 12. Who Will Do Foreign Policy?
• 13. National Security in the Age of Terrorism
• 14. The New ‘Great Power’ Politics
• 15. Democracy in the Middle East
• 16. A Twenty-First-Century Energy Policy
• 17. The New Middle Ages
• 18. Global Warming: It’s China (and India) as well as the United States
• 19. The Challenge of the Twenty-First Century