The clash of ideas
Subtitle: the ideological battles that made the modern world and will shape the future
By: edited by Gideon Rose and Jonathan Tepperman
Publisher: Foreign Affairs
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780876095300
Subjects: Socialism; Communism; Political science; Democracy; Power (Social Sciences); Power (Social sciences)
Other titles: Ideological battles that made the modern world and will shape the future; Foreign affairs (New York, N.Y.)
Description: This special collection drawn from the archives of Foreign Affairs traces, in real time, the great intellectual debates that defined the twentieth century-and are molding the twenty-first. Also featuring new essays, including works by Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, and Francis Fukuyama, author of the End of History, this intellectual narrative explains how and why modern politics look the way they do, and where we go from here.
Notes: "This book presents a special selection of new and archival material from Foreign Affairs ... an accompaniment to the January/Febrary 2012 issue of the magazine"--Contents.
Table of contents: title: Making modernity work / Gideon Rose; title: Lenin and Mussolini / Harold J. Laski; title: Lenin / Victor Chernov; title: Stalin's power / Paul Scheffer; title: Making the collective man in Soviet Russia / William Henry Chamberlin; title: The philosophic basis of fascism / Giovanni Gentile; title: Radical forces in Germany / Erich Koch-Weser; title: Hitler: phenomenon and portent / Paul Scheffer; title: Hitler's Reich / Hamilton Fish Armstrong; title: Political ideas in the twentieth century / Isaiah Berlin; title: Of liberty / Benedetto Croce; title: The position and prospects of communism / Harold J. Laski; title: Nationalism and economic life / Leon Trotsky; title: The reconstruction of liberalism / C.H. McIlwain; title: The economic tasks of the postwar world / Alvin H. Hansen and C.P. Kindleberger; title: Freedom and control / Geoffrey Crowther; title: Limits of economic planning / Barbara Ward; title: The split between Asian and Western socialism / David J. Saposs; title: The myth of post-Cold War chaos / G. John Ikenberry; title: The return of the authoritarian great powers / Azar Gat; title: How development leads to democracy / Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel; title: The post-Washington consensus / Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama; title: The future of history / Francis Fukuyama; title: The democratic malaise / Charles A. Kupchan; title: The strange triumph of liberal democracy / Shlomo Avineri.