TY - GEN AU - Reid-Henry, Simon TI - Empire of democracy : the remaking of the west since the cold war, 1971-2017 SN - 9781451684964 U1 - 320.9182 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - KW - India--Bengal KW - Western countries KW - Politics and government KW - Liberalism KW - Civilization, Western N1 - Contents Introduction 1 Prologue: Two helicopters 13 Part I : Democracy unbound (1971-) 1. The unravelling 27 2. The crisis of capitalism 58 3. The reckoning 108 4. A split in the world 160 5. "Let fury have the hour" 191 6. The victory : remaking Europe 237 Part II : Novus Ordo Seclorum? (1989-) 7. America and "a world transformed" 273 8. The great convergence 312 9. A democratic peace? 355 10. The new prosperity 381 11. Farewell to all that 419 12. Blueprints for the new millennium 466 Part III : Victory without peace (2001-) 13. The assault on freedom 503 14. In the shadow of war 553 15. The great recession 591 16. Back to the streets 643 17. Crisis upon crisis 693 18. Epilogue: The end of an era? 736 Acknowledgements 755 Notes 759 Index 833 ER -