Global triumph or western twilight?

Orbis

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 333-341

  Kurth, James ^a,b,c  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Foreign Policy Research Institute   (United States)

^c Study Group on America and the West   (United States)

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EID: 17144392344     PISSN: 00304387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0030-4387(01)00077-1     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. This article is adapted from a presentation made to the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Study Group on America and the West, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 2, 2000.
2. See the account of the Enlightenment given by Alan Charles Kors in this issue of Orbis.
3. See also William H. McNeill, "What We Mean by the West," Orbis, Fall 1997, pp. 513-24;
4. David Gress, From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents (New York: Free Press, 1998).
5. James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars (New York: Basic Books, 1991);
6. Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995);
7. Ronald William Dworkin, The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).
8. See George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 2 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967-72);
9. Sketches from a Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989).
10. James Kurth, "American Strategy in the Global Era," Naval War College Review, Winter 2000, pp. 7-12.
11. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, rev. and enl. ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998);
12. James Kurth, "The Protestant Deformation and American Foreign Policy," Orbis, Spring 1998, pp. 227-39.
13. James Kurth, "NATO Expansion and the Idea of the West," Orbis, Fall 1997, pp. 561-65.
14. Michael Lind, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution (New York: Free Press, 1995), chap. 3.
15. Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, expanded ed. (New York: Anchor Books, 2000), chap.
16. This would be an extension of the view presented by Daniel Bell in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 1976).
17. Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).
18. Paul Bracken, Fire in the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age (New York: HarperCollins, 1999).