Draws together discussions of the idea of orientalism, the right to intervene, and the triumph of science over the humanities to explain how strategies designed to promote particular Western interests have acquired an all-inclusive patina.

Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scientist in the department of sociology at Yale University and professor emeritus of sociology at Binghampton University (SUNY). His many books include The Modern World-System and Historical Capitalism. The New Press has published his After Liberalism, European Universalism, The Decline of American Power, Utopistics, and a collection of his works, The Essential Wallerstein. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Paris, France.