The End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity

Abstract

The author concludes ‘that America’s low standing in Muslim countries can be turned around’, for public opinion polls in the Islamic world had shown that the United States has been viewed as a threat to world peace (p. 140). The author stresses that ‘the United States should attempt to reverse this trend and re-establish American moral leadership and rekindle in other nations, faith in this country’s deep-rooted commitment to justice, fairness, the rule of law, civil rights, and international norms of behaviour’ (p.140). It is evident that this book’s past, present and future visions were based to a great extent on American foreign policies in the past, especially during President George W. Bush’s administration, 2001–2008. President Barak Hussein Obama’s decisive victory in the November 2008 elections and his assuming constitutional power in January 2009 clearly has opened many windows of opportunities in American foreign policy toward the Muslim World. I hope that the author in the revised edition of his book in the near future will take these great developments in American politics into account. I have no doubt that these developments will be, to a great extent, in harmony with the book’s thesis.