Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism

By Charles Hill

Book Overview

Charles Hill analyzes the refusal of the ideologues of pan-Islam to accept the boundaries and responsibilities of the order of states. He offers a historical perspective on the war of Islamism against the nation-state system, looking at changes in world order from the Thirty Years' War of the seventeenth century to Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817913246
• ISBN13: 9780817913243
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"