The World That Made Trump

• Bill Emmott, The Fate Of The West: The Decline and Revival of the World’s Most Valuable Political Idea (Economist Books)
• James Kirchick, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age (Yale University Press)
• Michael Mandelbaum, Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press)
• Richard Haass, A World In Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order(Penguin Press)

For nearly a generation, the West has been experiencing something like progress in reverse. With the fallout from the US-led Iraq War spreading instability from the Middle East to Europe, the 2008 financial crisis undermining voters’ faith in liberal capitalism, and nationalist populism resurgent almost everywhere, anyone pondering the fate of the West in 2017 could be forgiven for seeking some cheer or consolation.