Five years after the invasion of Iraq the world is a more dangerous place than ever. Twenty prominent political thinkers from the US and UK give their take on the crisis.

Foreword: Towards a safer world / Geoffrey Howe -- Introduction: The world century / Robert Harvey -- Reclaiming the values of the United States / Jimmy Carter -- The Post-Westphalian world / Henry A. Kissinger -- Protecting the golden moment / George P. Schulz and Harry Rowen -- British foreign policy: the folly of Iraq / Geoffrey Howe -- Doing our fighting men and women justice / Michael Heseltine -- Uniting our enemies and dividing our friends / Zbigniew Brzezinski -- Traditionalists vs transformationists / Brent Scowcroft -- The United States cannot stand alone / Frank Carlucci -- The bridge of dreams / David Howell -- Forging nuclear warheads into lightbulbs / Sam Nunn -- The challenge of energy security / Dick G. Lugar -- Who will do foreign policy? / John Coles -- National security in the age of terrorism / Chas W. Freeman, Jr. -- The new "great power" politics / Michael Howard -- Democracy in the Middle East / Mark Allen -- A twenty-first-century energy policy / Branko Terzic -- The new Middle Ages / Simon Jenkins -- Global warming: it's China (and India) as well as the United States / Simon Scott Plummer -- The challenge of the twenty-first century / Robert Harvey