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Preface | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
U.S. Dominance and Its Limits | p. 13 |
Overview | p. 13 |
Discussion Questions | p. 16 |
Suggested Readings | p. 16 |
American Primacy in Perspective | p. 17 |
The Decline of America's Soft Power | p. 27 |
The Inadequacy of American Power | p. 33 |
America as a European Hegemon | p. 39 |
A Global Power Shift in the Making | p. 50 |
An American Empire? | p. 57 |
Overview | p. 57 |
Discussion Questions | p. 61 |
Suggested Readings | p. 61 |
History Lesson: What Woodrow Wilson Can Teach Today's Imperialists | p. 63 |
Is the U.S. an Empire? | p. 72 |
The New American Militarism | p. 75 |
The American Empire: The Burden | p. 84 |
The Case for American Empire | p. 88 |
The Empire Slinks Back | p. 92 |
Strategic Choice: Unilateralism or Multilateralism? | p. 99 |
Overview | p. 99 |
Discussion Questions | p. 104 |
Suggested Readings | p. 104 |
Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World | p. 105 |
After Neoconservatism | p. 118 |
Leadership at Risk: The Perils of Unilateralism | p. 128 |
Is American Multilateralism in Decline? | p. 134 |
Attitudes toward American Power at Home and Abroad | p. 147 |
Overview | p. 147 |
Discussion Questions | p. 150 |
Suggested Readings | p. 151 |
The Paradoxes of American Nationalism | p. 153 |
Power and Weakness | p. 160 |
The Effects of September 11: A Rift between Europe and America? | p. 178 |
Views of a Changing World 2003: War with Iraq Further Divides Global Publics | p. 190 |
Taming American Power | p. 203 |
Case Studies in U.S. Grand Strategy: The War against Terrorism and the Invasion of Iraq | p. 215 |
Overview | p. 215 |
Discussion Questions | p. 224 |
Suggested Readings | p. 225 |
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2002 | p. 227 |
The Case for Overthrowing Saddam Was Unimpeachable | p. 240 |
America's Imperial Ambition | p. 246 |
Realism's Shining Morality | p. 256 |
Bounding the Global War on Terrorism | p. 262 |
The End of the Bush Revolution | p. 266 |
Conclusion | p. 275 |
Credits | p. 281 |
About the Editor and Contributors | p. 285 |
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