Chapter 1 The American Approach to Foreign Policy
Learning from Experience
The Roots of American Primacy
The American Sense of Destiny
Self-Doubts, Revisionism, and Social Construction
Part I: The Cold War
Chapter 2 From World War to Cold War
American Wartime Illusions
The Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign Policy
Soviet Expansion after World War II
The Strategy of Containment
Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine
Chapter 3 Containment: From Theory to Practice
New Economic and Military Structures
Reviving the Western European Allies
Confronting Revolution in East Asia
Domestic Pressures for a Global Crusade
Eisenhower’s ‘New Look’ in Foreign Policy
Chapter 4 North-South Tensions and the Vietnam War
Developing Countries in the Crossfire
Regional Conflicts in Latin America
Vietnam: The Limits of Containment
Chapter 5 Détente and World-Order Politics
Managing the Superpower Rivalry
Carter’s Quest for World Order
War and Peace in the Middle East
Blowback and the Soviet Power Play
Chapter 6 Breakthroughs in the Superpower Struggle
Reagan’s Rhetorical Offensive
Expanding U.S. Military Forces
‘Rollback’ in Developing Countries
Alliance Politics in the Late Cold War
From Confrontation to Conciliation
Chapter 7 The End of the Cold War
Bush’s Management of the Soviet Collapse
Endgame: The Collapse of the Core
Reasons for the Soviet Collapse
A Final Appraisal
Part II: The New World ‘Disorder’
Chapter 8 Old Tensions in a New Order
Great Expectations after the Cold War
Clinton’s Embrace of ‘Geoeconomics’
Sources of Global Fragmentation
War and Peace in the Middle East
The Plight of ‘Failed States’
Lessons from the Regional Crises
Chapter 9 The Shifting European Landscape
Western Europe: From Community to Union
Jump-Starting Democracy in Eastern Europe
NATO’s Search for a New Mission
‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in the Balkans
U.S.-Russian Relations under Stress
Chapter 10 America Under Fire
Strains in the Unipolar Order
The Growing Threat of ‘Sacred Terror’
Terror in the Morning Sky
Elements of Counterterrorism
A Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption
Chapter 11 Hot Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
The Afghanistan Campaign
The Pakistani Tinderbox
Renewed Hostilities against Iraq
Chapter 12 Looking Back, and Facing the Future
Flashbacks to Vietnam
Legacies of the Bush Era
Obama’s Call for “Renewal”
American Hegemony at Risk
Chapter 13 Aftershocks of the Arab Spring
Mass Demands for Democracy
Israel’s Quest for Internal Security
Iraq’s Collapse and the ISIS Challenge
The Afghan Muddle
Chapter 14 The Revival of Power Politics
Russia’s Declaration of Cold War II
China’s Pacific Challenge
Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation
Rethinking American Power
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