CONTENT Pt. I : Context 1. A serpent in paradise3 2. A summary of the promised future 15 3. What they said it would do17 4. What somebody forgot to mention 26 5. A short history of economics becoming religion 36 Pt. II : THE RISE 6. 1971 55 7. The vacuum 57 8. The king's foot 66 9. Selected romantic enthusiasms 69 10. The gathering force88 11. Crucifixion economics 102 Pt. III : The plateau 12. Success 111 13. 1991 118 14. The ideology of progress 123 15. 1995 Pt. IV : The fall 16. A negative equilibrium 139 17. NGOs and God 152 18. A chronology of decline 157 19. A chronology of decline : the Malaysian breakout 162 20. The end of belief 171 21. India and China205 22. New Zealand flips again 210 Pt. V : And where are we going now? 23. The new vacuum : an interregnum of morbid symptoms 217 24. The new vacuum : is the nation-state back? 232 25. Negative nationalism 246 26. The normalization of irregular warfare258 27. Positive nationalism 269 Notes 281 Acknowledgments 299 Index 301