ABSTRACT
In the twentieth century, both the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations, erected their own collective security systems to enforce order, but the record of world war and cold war shattered the lofty ambitions of both institutions. Islamic fundamentalism is viewed here as a potential ally of China's in the long term, particularly given the mutual antagonism between the two against such Western values such as human rights, democracy, and weapon proliferation. The ultimate destiny of endism is a posthuman globe; the end of humanity as we have known it since man emerged from his primeval caves with weapons of war. The idea of overlapping, power-driven themes or strains in US foreign policy has often entertained scholastic inquiries into the very nature of the country and the sociological origins of its foreign relations. Most Americans do not want to turn the world upside down.
