It wasn’t so long ago that a notion gained currency suggesting we had reached ‘the end of history’, that humanity’s sociocultural evolution had advanced to a point beyond which it could not develop much further. A quarter of a century later, this optimism seems to have vanished. Instead, we are witnessing the return of geopolitics.In this volume, leading scholars chart how we arrived where we are today – and where we might be going next.Edited by Kurt Almqvist andAlexander Linklater.Contributing writers:Jeremy Black, Philip Bobbitt, Michael Broers, Roger Crowley, Gregory Feifer, Noah Feldman, Jonathan Fenby, David Frum, Gabriel Gorodetsky, Peter Heather, Josef Joffe, Anna-Lena Laurén, John H. Maurer, Sean McMeekin, Walter Russell Mead, Richard Miles, Fraser Nelson, Richard Overy, Lincoln Paine, Andrew Preston,Morris Rossabi, Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Norman Stone, Barry Straussand Mikael Wigell.