TY  - BOOK
AU  - Talbott, Strobe.
TI  - The great experiment: the story of ancient empires, modern states and the quest for a global nation
SN  - 9780743294089
U1  - 320.1 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - International organization
N1  - A gathering of tribes --
The imperial millennia --
Caravans at rest --
A light unto the nations --
The ecumenical state --
The poet and "the prince" --
Perpetual war and "perpetual peace" --
Blood and leather --
The American centuries --
Monsters to destroy --
Empty chairs --
The master builder --
A trusteeship of the powerful --
An end and a beginning --
The unipolar decades --
The new world order --
Seizing the day --
Hard power --
A theory of the case --
Going it alone --
A consequential aberration --
Conclusion: The crucial years
ER  -