Patricia Chiantera-Stutte is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Bari. Giovanni Borgognone is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Torino.

• Introduction: Assembling the Civilizational Jigsaw by Giovanni Borgognone and Patricia Chiantera-StutteChapter 1: Challenges to the West: Civilizational Theory, Imperialism, and Liberal Internationalism by Patricia Chiantera-StutteChapter 2: An Historian’s Approach to Civilization: Arnold J. Toynbee and the Study of International Affairs in the Twentieth Century by Luca G. CastellinChapter 3: Governable Masses and Manageable Democracy: Samuel Huntington and the Origins of the Clash of Civilizations Theory by Giovanni BorgognoneChapter 4: The ‘Western’ Roots of Democracy: A Geopolitical Dilemma by Paulo Butti de LimaChapter 5:Pan-Islamism and Pan-Arabism: Debating Possible Convergences in Responses to Modernity by Marco Di DonatoChapter 6: From Pan-Asianism to an Afro-Asian Solidarity: Notions and Connotations of Civilization in the Context of Chinese Revolution, 1900-1966 by Zhiguang YinChapter 7: Civilizationism in Russia from the Slavophiles to Vladimir Putin by Kåre Johan MjørConclusion: A

Original and richly researched, this book lays bare the entangled and global history of civilizational thought. It is a much-needed guide to a world which remains caught up in such modes of thinking.

Patricia Chiantera-Stutte is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Bari. Giovanni Borgognone is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Torino.

• Introduction: Assembling the Civilizational Jigsaw by Giovanni Borgognone and Patricia Chiantera-StutteChapter 1: Challenges to the West: Civilizational Theory, Imperialism, and Liberal Internationalism by Patricia Chiantera-StutteChapter 2: An Historian’s Approach to Civilization: Arnold J. Toynbee and the Study of International Affairs in the Twentieth Century by Luca G. CastellinChapter 3: Governable Masses and Manageable Democracy: Samuel Huntington and the Origins of the Clash of Civilizations Theory by Giovanni BorgognoneChapter 4: The ‘Western’ Roots of Democracy: A Geopolitical Dilemma by Paulo Butti de LimaChapter 5:Pan-Islamism and Pan-Arabism: Debating Possible Convergences in Responses to Modernity by Marco Di DonatoChapter 6: From Pan-Asianism to an Afro-Asian Solidarity: Notions and Connotations of Civilization in the Context of Chinese Revolution, 1900-1966 by Zhiguang YinChapter 7: Civilizationism in Russia from the Slavophiles to Vladimir Putin by Kåre Johan MjørConclusion: A

Original and richly researched, this book lays bare the entangled and global history of civilizational thought. It is a much-needed guide to a world which remains caught up in such modes of thinking.

Patricia Chiantera-Stutte is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Bari. Giovanni Borgognone is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Torino.

• Introduction: Assembling the Civilizational Jigsaw by Giovanni Borgognone and Patricia Chiantera-StutteChapter 1: Challenges to the West: Civilizational Theory, Imperialism, and Liberal Internationalism by Patricia Chiantera-StutteChapter 2: An Historian’s Approach to Civilization: Arnold J. Toynbee and the Study of International Affairs in the Twentieth Century by Luca G. CastellinChapter 3: Governable Masses and Manageable Democracy: Samuel Huntington and the Origins of the Clash of Civilizations Theory by Giovanni BorgognoneChapter 4: The ‘Western’ Roots of Democracy: A Geopolitical Dilemma by Paulo Butti de LimaChapter 5:Pan-Islamism and Pan-Arabism: Debating Possible Convergences in Responses to Modernity by Marco Di DonatoChapter 6: From Pan-Asianism to an Afro-Asian Solidarity: Notions and Connotations of Civilization in the Context of Chinese Revolution, 1900-1966 by Zhiguang YinChapter 7: Civilizationism in Russia from the Slavophiles to Vladimir Putin by Kåre Johan MjørConclusion: A

Original and richly researched, this book lays bare the entangled and global history of civilizational thought. It is a much-needed guide to a world which remains caught up in such modes of thinking.