...This chapter considers the outcomes in terms of understanding the politics of neoliberal resilience and its implications for the future of democratic capitalism. It reflects on the apparent paradox that the cases of neoliberal resilience show a more stable democracy and less thoroughgoing...

...This chapter argues that the West “won” the Cold War because statesmen made systems of democratic capitalism and social democracy work effectively. The challenge for democratic leaders throughout the world was to thwart the appeal of communism and co-opt revolutionary nationalist movements. To do...

... history shows that transnational ideological contests such as that between secularism and Islamism can end in one of three ways: victory, transcendence, or convergence. The chapter explains each outcome in greater detail by focusing on the triumph of democratic capitalism in the late twentieth century...

... in the 1870s, and the superiority of democratic capitalism in the 1980s. It also looks at states that Muslims think exemplify, for good or ill, Islamism and secularism. If we want to know how the Islamist-secularist contest, now in its tenth decade, will turn out, Western history directs us...

..., assess their willingness to incur commitments and responsibilities abroad, study their readiness to employ military power, and gain an appreciation of how they saw the links between external configurations of power and the preservation of democratic capitalism at home. As the author embraced complexity...