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