1. Decline of the United States : the eagle has landed
2. The twentieth century : darkness at noon?
3. Globalization : a long-term trajectory of the world-system
4. Racism : our albatross
5. Islam : Islam, the West, and the world
6. The others : who are we? Who are the others?
7. Democracy : rhetoric or reality?
8. Intellectuals : value-neutrality in question
9. America and the world : the Twin Towers as metaphor
10. The Left, I : theory and praxis once again
11. The Left, II : an age of transition
12. The movements : what does it mean to be an antisystemic movement today?
13. Geopolitical cleavages of the twenty-first century : what future for the world?
Afterwords:
1. The righteous war
2. "Shock and awe?"