1st Edition

The Struggle for the West A Divided and Contested Legacy

Edited By Christopher Browning, Marko Lehti Copyright 2010
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years debates about the nature and future of the West have been high on the political agenda. Prognoses of the West’s imminent demise have been countered by those arguing for its continued relevance, or those arguing that while the West will survive its nature, and the balance of power between its constituent units, is transforming. This book argues that understanding contemporary... Read more
1. Introduction: New Tensions in a Troubled Partnership Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti  Part 1: Foundations of The West  2. The West: Contested, Narrated and Clustered Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti  3. The Russian Dawn: How Russia Contributed to the Emergence of ‘The West’ as a Concept Peggy Heller  4. The Perpetual Decline of the West Patrick Thaddeus Jackson  Part 2: The Dividing Legacy of The West  5. Rebooting the West: Can the Western Alliance Still Engage in War? Christopher Coker  6. American West vs. European West: A Struggle for Ownership and Legitimacy Marko Lehti  Part 3: Europe, America and Alternative Core Wests  7. European Identity, Post-Western Europe, and Complex Cultural Diversity Paul Blokker and Gerard Delanty  8. Difference within Similarity: The Puzzle of Transatlantic Relations Pertti Joenniemi  9. Beyond the West and Towards the Anglosphere? Christopher S. Browning and Ben Tonra  Part 4: Remaking The West in the Margins  10. Western Hegemony, Global Democracy and the Russian Challenge Viatcheslav Morozov  11. Asian Occidentalism and Rediscovered Modenities Alastair Bonnett  12. Conclusion: The Resilient West? Christopher S. Browning

Biography

Christopher S. Browning is Associate Professor in International Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Marko Lehti is Senior Research Fellow at Tampere Peace Research Institute at the University of Tampere and Academic Director of the Baltic Sea Region Studies Masters Programme at the University of Turku, Finland.