Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism (Hoover Institution Press Publication (Hardcover))

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
Foreword by Fouad Ajami
Prologue
	On a Ship to Oman
	On the Train to the Army-Navy Game
CHAPTER ONE: Two World Orders
	Christendom and Caliphate
	Duality or Unity?
	“The Turk” and “Oriental Despotism”
	Three World-Historical Events
CHAPTER TWO: The Modern Ordering Takes Shape
	1648
	The Enlightenment Views the Prophet
	The Sick Man of Europe
CHAPTER THREE: The Wars on World Order
	The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
	The Taiping Rebellion, 1851–1866
	The American Civil War and the Utah War
	The Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871
	The Great War
	World War II: Imperial Japan and the Third Reich
	The Cold War
	The Indian Mutiny and the International System
CHAPTER FOUR: An Islamic Challenge Takes Shape
	1979: Iran
	1979: Saudi Arabia
	1979: Pakistan
	1979: Afghanistan
	1979: Egypt
	1979: Saddam’s Iraq—Bonfire of the Pathologies
	The Lost Decade of the 1990s
	The Islamist War on World Order, Well Underway
	Saddam Overthrown
	Saddam’s Strategy
CHAPTER FIVE: The Shock of Recognition
	Centers of Gravity
	Legal
	Military
	The State
	Women
	Democracy
	Nuclear Weapons
	Values
CHAPTER SIX: In the Matter of Grand Strategy
	Religion in World Order Revisited
Epilogue: On the Road to Oxiana
Bibliography
About the Author
About the Hoover Institution’s Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order
Index