Table of Contents
Foreword Fouad Ajami ix
Prologue 3
On a Ship to Oman 3
On the Train to the Army-Navy Game 6
Chapter 1 Two World Orders 9
Christendom and Caliphate 11
Duality or Unity? 13
"The Turk" and "Oriental Despotism" 17
Three World-Historical Events 25
Chapter 2 The Modern Ordering Takes Shape 29
1648 30
The Enlightenment Views the Prophet 32
The Sick Man of Europe 38
Chapter 3 The Wars on World Order 49
The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars 49
The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1866 52
The American Civil War and the Utah War 55
The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 59
The Great War 63
World War II: Imperial Japan and the Third Reich 69
The Cold War 76
The Indian Mutiny and the International System 83
Chapter 4 An Islamic Challenge Takes Shape 89
1979: Iran 89
1979: Saudi Arabia 91
1979: Pakistan 92
1979: Afghanistan 93
1979: Egypt 93
1979: Saddam's Iraq—Bonfire of the Pathologies 94
The Lost Decade of the 1990s 99
The Islamist War on World Order, Well Underway 103
Saddam Overthrown 106
Saddam's Strategy 109
Chapter 5 The Shock of Recognition 115
Centers of Gravity 121
Legal 123
Military 123
The State 126
Women 131
Democracy 134
Nuclear Weapons 138
Values 140
Chapter 6 In the Matter of Grand Strategy 145
Religion in World Order Revisited 153
Epilogue: On the Road to Oxiana 162
Bibliography 165
About the Author 171
About the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order 173
Index 175
