Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : new tensions in a troubled partnership ; The West : contested, narrated and clustered / Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti -- The Russian dawn : how Russia contributed to the emergence of 'the West' as a concept / Peggy Heller -- The perpetual decline of the West / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson -- Rebooting the West : can the Western alliance still engage in war? / Christopher Coker -- American West vs European West : a struggle for ownership and legitimacy / Marko Lehti -- European identity, post-Western Europe, and complex cultural diversity / Paul Blokker and Gerard Delanty -- Difference within similarity : the puzzle of transatlantic relations / Pertti Joenniemi -- Beyond the West and towards the Anglosphere? / Christopher S. Browning and Ben Tonra -- Western hegemony, global democracy and the Russian challenge / Viatcheslav Morozov -- Asian occidentalism and rediscovered modernities / Alastair Bonnett -- Conclusion : the resilient West? / Christopher S. Browning.

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