1. Introduction : September 11 and the new world order -- 2. Tony Blair and the politics of good intentions -- 3. Taking a chance on war : the worst-case scenarios -- 4. Taking a chance on war : Suez and Iraq -- 5. Who knows best? -- 6. Weimar Iraq -- 7. A bear armed with a gun -- 8. The garden, the park, the meadow -- 9. Two revolutions, one revolutionary -- 10. Epilogue : virtual politics
Summary
"Many books about international politics since September Eleventh contend that either everything changed or nothing changed on that fateful day. This book identifies what is new about contemporary politics but also how what is new has been exploited in ways that are all too familiar. It compares recent political events with other crises in the history of modern politics - political and intellectual, ranging from seventeenth-century England to Weimar Germany - to argue that the risks of the present crisis have been exaggerated, manipulated and misunderstood."--BOOK JACKET
