This book problematises the idea of and debates about a 'divided West' that have emerged since 9/11 and the controversy over the Iraq War.

1. Introduction: New Tensions in a Troubled Partnership Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti Part 1: Foundations of The West 2. The West: Contested, Narrated and Clustered Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti 3. The Russian Dawn: How Russia Contributed to the Emergence of 'The West' as a Concept Peggy Heller 4. The Perpetual Decline of the West Patrick Thaddeus Jackson Part 2: The Dividing Legacy of The West 5. Rebooting the West: Can the Western Alliance Still Engage in War? Christopher Coker 6. American West vs. European West: A Struggle for Ownership and Legitimacy Marko Lehti Part 3: Europe, America and Alternative Core Wests 7.European Identity, Post-Western Europe, and Complex Cultural Diversity Paul Blokker and Gerard Delanty 8. Difference within Similarity: The Puzzle of Transatlantic Relations Pertti Joenniemi 9. Beyond the West and Towards the Anglosphere? Christopher S. Browning and Ben Tonra Part 4: Remaking The West in the Margins 10. Western Hegemony, Global Democracy and the Russian Challenge Viatcheslav Morozov 11. Asian Occidentalism and Rediscovered Modenities Alastair Bonnett 12. Conclusion: The Resilient West? Christopher S. Browning

Christopher S. Browning is Associate Professor in International Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Marko Lehti is Senior Research Fellow at Tampere Peace Research Institute at the University of Tampere and Academic Director of the Baltic Sea Region Studies Masters Programme at the University of Turku, Finland.