Includes bibliographic references and index.

From the Truman doctrine to the second superpower detente: the rise and fall of the Cold War -- Why did we get the end of the Cold War wrong? -- His finest hour? George Bush and the diplomacy of German unification -- Another Transatlantic split? American and European narratives and the end of the Cold War -- The necessary partnership? The Clinton presidency and post-Soviet Russia -- Learning from history? From Soviet collapse to the "new" Cold War -- Not just "convenient": China and Russia's new strategic partnership in the age of geopolitics -- Power shifts, economic change and the decline of the West -- Still the American empire -- Beyond the West: terrors in Transatlantia -- Europe: still between the superpowers -- The rise of populism and the crisis of globalization: Brexit, Trump and beyond.

"This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder - the resurgence of Russia , the rise of populism in the West, deep tensions in the Atlantic alliance, and the new strategic partnership between China and Russia - and asks why so many assumptions about how the world might look after the Cold War - liberal, democratic and increasingly global - have proven to be so wrong"--