Contents

1. Cover
2. Front Matter
3. Introduction: Nostalgia in an End Time
   1. The Context
   2. The Argument
   3. Notes
4. 1 The Idea of Liberal Order
   1. The Order in Theory
   2. Other Than That, Mrs Lincoln: Silences, Omissions and Ruptures
   3. Ready for a Master: The Illiberalism of Liberal Order
   4. Notes
5. 2 Darkness Visible: World-Ordering in Practice
   1. An Illiberal World
   2. Order as Hypocrisy
   3. A Warrant to Strike
   4. The Order at Birth
   5. Political Economy
   6. A Nuclear Order
   7. Spheres of Influence
   8. Wars for Peace
   9. Distrusting the Order
   10. Notes
6. 3 Rough Beast: How the Order Made Trump
   1. Alibis and Causes
   2. Trump as Caesarist
   3. The Political Economy of Trump
   4. Before the Fall
   5. Notes
7. 4 A Machiavellian Moment: Roads Ahead
   1. A Republic in Danger
   2. Paths to Security
   3. What Is to Be Done?
   4. The Big Story
   5. Notes
8. Afterword: Before Our Eyes
   1. Notes
9. Index
10. End User License Agreement

Figures

1. Chapter 1
   1. Figure 1 Usage of the phrases ‘liberal international order’, ‘liberal order’ and ‘rules-b…
2. Chapter 2
   1. Figure 2 Superpower-fuelled conflicts of the Cold War in the Eastern hemisphere and the q…

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