Contestations of Liberal Order: The West in Crisis?
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Beyond Liberal Empire and Peace: Declining Hegemony of the West? -- Consensual Hegemony, Consensual Legitimacy -- Liberal Principles of International Order -- The West as a Liberal Empire -- Resistance, Contestation, and Resilience -- The Metamorphoses of Liberal Hegemony and Crisis of Liberal Empire -- References -- Chapter 3: Crises of the West: Liberal Identities and Ontological (In)Security -- Past Crisis Narratives -- The West as a Civilization -- Three Current Crisis Narratives -- The Constituting Power of Crisis -- The Crises of Liberal -- References -- Chapter 4: From Identification to Division: Contesting the Unity of the West from Within -- Debating the Idea of the West -- The 'Two Wests' Debate: A Geographical Division -- The Divided West in the Age of Trump: Towards an Ideological Division -- The Self-ironic West -- A Common Western Ground in the Making? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The West: Divided in Freedom and Fear? -- The Rationalism of a Consensual Community of Values -- Freedom: A Core Value of the Transatlantic Community -- Turning to the Inside: Emphasis on Sovereignty -- The World Outside: Real-Political Resilience and Strategic Competition -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: They Hate Our Freedoms: Homosexuality and Islam in the Tolerant West -- Liberalism, Tolerance and Western Modernity -- Gay Men and Islam: The Creation of a Binary -- Homonationalism in Western Europe -- Homosexuality and Islam -- Homosexuality and the West -- The Future of the Liberal Project -- References -- Chapter 7: Who Owns the West? German Political Establishment and the New Right -- An Attack Against "Us": Statements by the Political Establishment.