Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Coping with Geopolitical Decline 3
6. What Is Decline? 23
7. The European Experience
8. The Culture of Decline in Later Byzantium 53
9. Defeat and Decline: Understanding Military Failure in Victorian Britain and in America after Vietnam and Iraq 77
10. Decline in Denial: France since 1945 107
11. Resisting Decline: Russia, the West, and Eurasia 127
12. Coping with American Decline
13. American Decline and Performative War, or How to Do Things with Force 163
14. Adjusting to Rise and Coping with Decline: The China-US Relationship in Historical and Theoretical Context 194
15. American Decline, Liberal Hegemony, and the Transformation of World Politics 222
16. Conclusion: European Lessons for America 251
17. Contributors 265
18. Index 267