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Maps, Tables, Figures, and Boxes | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
The American Approach to Foreign Policy | p. 1 |
Learning from Experience | p. 5 |
The Roots of American Primacy | p. 6 |
Shifts in the Balance of Power | p. 7 |
Redefining American Security | p. 8 |
The American Sense of Destiny | p. 10 |
A Skeptical View of Power Politics | p. 12 |
Foreign Policy as Moral Mission | p. 14 |
Self-Doubts, Revisionism, and Social Construction | p. 18 |
The Cold War | |
From World War to Cold War | p. 21 |
American Wartime Illusions | p. 23 |
The Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign Policy | p. 25 |
The Russian Background | p. 26 |
The Soviet Ingredient | p. 27 |
Soviet Expansion after World War II | p. 29 |
U.S.-Soviet Differences | p. 30 |
The Soviet Push to the South | p. 32 |
The Strategy of Containment | p. 34 |
George Kennan and the New Grand Strategy | p. 36 |
Alternatives to Containment | p. 38 |
Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine | p. 40 |
Containment: From Theory to Practice | p. 44 |
New Economic and Military Structures | p. 46 |
The Bretton Woods System | p. 46 |
The National Security Act | p. 49 |
Reviving the Western European Allies | p. 50 |
The Marshall Plan | p. 51 |
Roots of the European Union | p. 52 |
European Security and the NATO Alliance | p. 54 |
Recurring Conflicts over Berlin | p. 56 |
Confronting Revolution in East Asia | p. 57 |
The Chinese Revolution | p. 58 |
Hot War in Korea | p. 60 |
Domestic Pressures for a Global Crusade | p. 65 |
Eisenhower's 'New Look' in Foreign Policy | p. 66 |
North-South Tensions and the Vietnam War | p. 71 |
Developing Countries in the Crossfire | p. 72 |
Regional Conflicts in Latin America | p. 80 |
Guatemala's Military Coup | p. 81 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 83 |
Strong-Arming Chile | p. 87 |
Vietnam: The Limits of Containment | p. 88 |
Testing the 'Domino Theory' | p. 90 |
The Misconduct of Guerrilla Warfare | p. 92 |
The Military Battlefield in Vietnam | p. 93 |
The Political Battlefield at Home | p. 95 |
American Defeat and Withdrawal | p. 98 |
Detente and World-Order Politics | p. 101 |
Managing the Superpower Rivalry | p. 103 |
Henry Kissinger's Worldview | p. 104 |
Exploiting the Sino-Soviet Split | p. 105 |
Arms Control and 'Linkage' | p. 107 |
Carter's Quest for World Order | p. 110 |
War and Peace in the Middle East | p. 114 |
Early Arab-Israeli Wars | p. 114 |
The Camp David Accords | p. 116 |
Blowback and the Soviet Power Play | p. 120 |
Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution | p. 121 |
America 'Held Hostage' in Iran | p. 122 |
The Soviet Takeover in Afghanistan | p. 124 |
The Revival of Superpower Confrontation | p. 127 |
Reagan's Rhetorical Offensive | p. 129 |
Expanding U.S. Military Forces | p. 131 |
Opposition to Arms Control | p. 132 |
The Strategic Defense Initiative | p. 134 |
'Rollback' in Developing Countries | p. 135 |
Evaluating the Reagan Doctrine | p. 139 |
The Iran-Contra Scandal | p. 141 |
Alliance Politics in the Late Cold War | p. 142 |
Poland and the Rise of Solidarity | p. 144 |
The Missile Debate in Europe | p. 145 |
From Confrontation to Conciliation | p. 147 |
The End of the Cold War | p. 151 |
Bush's Management of the Soviet Collapse | p. 152 |
Dismantling Stalin's Empire | p. 154 |
Detaching Brezhnev's Outposts | p. 159 |
Stabilizing the Nuclear Balance | p. 160 |
Endgame: The Collapse of the Core | p. 161 |
Reasons for the Soviet Collapse | p. 166 |
The Contending Arguments in Perspective | p. 167 |
Excesses of the Containment Policy | p. 171 |
A Final Appraisal | p. 172 |
The New World 'Disorder' | |
America's 'Unipolar Moment' | p. 174 |
Great Expectations after the Cold War | p. 177 |
Revived Debates about America's World Role | p. 179 |
Clinton's Embrace of'Geoeconomics' | p. 184 |
The Course of America's Economic Troubles | p. 185 |
Responses by the Clinton Administration | p. 187 |
East Asia's Economic 'Miracle' | p. 190 |
Promoting Democracy and Sustainable Development | p. 193 |
A Grand Strategy of Democratic 'Enlargement' | p. 193 |
Support for Sustainable Development | p. 196 |
Domestic Challenges to Clinton's Foreign Policy | p. 197 |
Old Tensions in a New Order | p. 201 |
Sources of Global Fragmentation | p. 202 |
War and Peace in the Middle East | p. 204 |
Iraq's Challenge in the Persian Gulf | p. 205 |
Obstacles to an Arab-Israeli Peace | p. 210 |
The Plight of 'Failed States' | p. 214 |
Somalia and Central Africa | p. 215 |
Haiti | p. 218 |
Nuclear Brinkmanship in South Asia | p. 220 |
Lessons from the Regional Crises | p. 223 |
The Shifting European Landscape | p. 226 |
Western Europe: From Community to Union | p. 228 |
Jump-Starting Democracy in Eastern Europe | p. 232 |
NATO's Search for a New Mission | p. 234 |
'Ethnic Cleansing' in the Balkans | p. 237 |
The Dayton Accords | p. 241 |
The Kosovo Showdown | p. 243 |
U.S.-Russian Relations under Stress | p. 246 |
Internal Challenges to Reform | p. 247 |
Unrest in the 'Near Abroad' | p. 249 |
America under Fire | p. 252 |
Strains in the Unipolar Order | p. 255 |
The Globalization Backlash | p. 255 |
Retreat from Multilateralism | p. 257 |
The Growing Threat of 'Sacred Terror' | p. 261 |
Early Warnings and Responses | p. 262 |
The al Qaeda Connection | p. 266 |
Terror in the Morning Sky | p. 267 |
Elements of Counterterrorism | p. 270 |
Intelligence | p. 272 |
Diplomacy | p. 274 |
Homeland Security | p. 275 |
A Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption | p. 276 |
Hot Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq | p. 282 |
The Afghanistan Campaign | p. 283 |
Benign Neglect after the Cold War | p. 284 |
Phase 1: Dislodging the Taliban | p. 286 |
Phase 2: Nation Building in Rugged Terrain | p. 288 |
Renewed Hostilities against Iraq | p. 290 |
Making the Case for War | p. 293 |
Operation Iraqi Freedom | p. 297 |
A Race against Time | p. 301 |
The 'New Way Forward' | p. 303 |
Flashbacks to Vietnam | p. 304 |
A World of Trouble | p. 309 |
Legacies oftheBushEra | p. 310 |
Internal Threats to Democracy | p. 311 |
The Financial Collapse of 2008 | p. 314 |
Obama's Call for 'Renewal' | p. 318 |
Unfinished Business in the War on Terror | p. 322 |
The Pakistani Tinderbox | p. 322 |
Target bin Laden | p. 325 |
Withdrawal from Iraq | p. 329 |
Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation | p. 331 |
Iran's Quest for 'Nuclear Rights' | p. 331 |
Nuclear Brinkmanship in North Korea | p. 333 |
The Balance of Power in Flux | p. 336 |
Cracks in the Unipolar Order | p. 337 |
The Arab Spring and U.S. Response | p. 340 |
Regime Change in Tunisia and Egypt | p. 342 |
NATO's Libya Gambit | p. 344 |
Contagion in the Middle East | p. 347 |
China's Pacific Challenge | p. 351 |
Struggles in Russia and the 'Eurozone' | p. 354 |
Rediscovering America | p. 358 |
U.S. Administrations since World War II | p. 361 |
Chronology of Significant Events, 1945-2011 | p. 362 |
Select Bibliography | p. 378 |
Select Websites | p. 395 |
Select Blogs on American Foreign Policy | p. 397 |
Index | p. 398 |
Photo Credits | p. 423 |
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