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Maps, Tables, Figures, and Boxes | |
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Preface | |
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The American Approach to Foreign Policy | |
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Learning from Experience | |
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The Roots of American Primacy | |
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Shifts in the Balance of Power | |
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Redefining American Security | |
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The American Sense of Destiny | |
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A Skeptical View of Power Politics | |
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Foreign Policy as Moral Mission | |
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Self-Doubts, Revisionism, and Social Construction | |
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The Cold War | |
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From World War to Cold War | |
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American Wartime Illusions | |
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The Russo-Soviet Approach to Foreign Policy | |
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The Russian Background | |
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The Soviet Ingredient | |
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Soviet Expansion after World War II | |
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U.S.-Soviet Differences | |
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The Soviet Push to the South | |
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The Strategy of Containment | |
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George Kennan and the New Grand Strategy | |
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Alternatives to Containment | |
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Declaring Cold War: The Truman Doctrine | |
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Containment: From Theory to Practice | |
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New Economic and Military Structures | |
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The Bretton Woods System | |
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The National Security Act | |
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Reviving the Western European Allies | |
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The Marshall Plan | |
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Roots of the European Union | |
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European Security and the NATO Alliance | |
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Recurring Conflicts over Berlin | |
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Confronting Revolution in East Asia | |
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The Chinese Revolution | |
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Hot War in Korea | |
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Domestic Pressures for a Global Crusade | |
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Eisenhower's 'New Look' in Foreign Policy | |
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North-South Tensions and the Vietnam War | |
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Developing Countries in the Crossfire | |
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Regional Conflicts in Latin America | |
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Guatemala's Military Coup | |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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Strong-Arming Chile | |
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Vietnam: The Limits of Containment | |
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Testing the 'Domino Theory' | |
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The Misconduct of Guerrilla Warfare | |
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The Military Battlefield in Vietnam | |
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The Political Battlefield at Home | |
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American Defeat and Withdrawal | |
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Detente and World-Order Politics | |
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Managing the Superpower Rivalry | |
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Henry Kissinger's Worldview | |
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Exploiting the Sino-Soviet Split | |
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Arms Control and 'Linkage' | |
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Carter's Quest for World Order | |
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War and Peace in the Middle East | |
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Early Arab-Israeli Wars | |
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The Camp David Accords | |
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Blowback and the Soviet Power Play | |
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Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution | |
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America 'Held Hostage' in Iran | |
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The Soviet Takeover in Afghanistan | |
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The Revival of Superpower Confrontation | |
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Reagan's Rhetorical Offensive | |
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Expanding U.S. Military Forces | |
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Opposition to Arms Control | |
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The Strategic Defense Initiative | |
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'Rollback' in Developing Countries | |
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Evaluating the Reagan Doctrine | |
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The Iran-Contra Scandal | |
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Alliance Politics in the Late Cold War | |
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Poland and the Rise of Solidarity | |
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The Missile Debate in Europe | |
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From Confrontation to Conciliation | |
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The End of the Cold War | |
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Bush's Management of the Soviet Collapse | |
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Dismantling Stalin's Empire | |
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Detaching Brezhnev's Outposts | |
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Stabilizing the Nuclear Balance | |
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Endgame: The Collapse of the Core | |
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Reasons for the Soviet Collapse | |
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The Contending Arguments in Perspective | |
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Excesses of the Containment Policy | |
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A Final Appraisal | |
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The New World 'Disorder' | |
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America's 'Unipolar Moment' | |
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Great Expectations after the Cold War | |
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Revived Debates about America's World Role | |
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Clinton's Embrace of'Geoeconomics' | |
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The Course of America's Economic Troubles | |
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Responses by the Clinton Administration | |
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East Asia's Economic 'Miracle' | |
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Promoting Democracy and Sustainable Development | |
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A Grand Strategy of Democratic 'Enlargement' | |
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Support for Sustainable Development | |
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Domestic Challenges to Clinton's Foreign Policy | |
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Old Tensions in a New Order | |
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Sources of Global Fragmentation | |
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War and Peace in the Middle East | |
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Iraq's Challenge in the Persian Gulf | |
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Obstacles to an Arab-Israeli Peace | |
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The Plight of 'Failed States' | |
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Somalia and Central Africa | |
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Haiti | |
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Nuclear Brinkmanship in South Asia | |
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Lessons from the Regional Crises | |
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The Shifting European Landscape | |
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Western Europe: From Community to Union | |
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Jump-Starting Democracy in Eastern Europe | |
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NATO's Search for a New Mission | |
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'Ethnic Cleansing' in the Balkans | |
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The Dayton Accords | |
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The Kosovo Showdown | |
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U.S.-Russian Relations under Stress | |
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Internal Challenges to Reform | |
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Unrest in the 'Near Abroad' | |
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America under Fire | |
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Strains in the Unipolar Order | |
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The Globalization Backlash | |
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Retreat from Multilateralism | |
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The Growing Threat of 'Sacred Terror' | |
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Early Warnings and Responses | |
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The al Qaeda Connection | |
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Terror in the Morning Sky | |
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Elements of Counterterrorism | |
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Intelligence | |
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Diplomacy | |
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Homeland Security | |
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A Grand Strategy of Primacy and Preemption | |
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Hot Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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The Afghanistan Campaign | |
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Benign Neglect after the Cold War | |
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Phase 1: Dislodging the Taliban | |
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Phase 2: Nation Building in Rugged Terrain | |
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Renewed Hostilities against Iraq | |
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Making the Case for War | |
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Operation Iraqi Freedom | |
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A Race against Time | |
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The 'New Way Forward' | |
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Flashbacks to Vietnam | |
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A World of Trouble | |
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Legacies oftheBushEra | |
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Internal Threats to Democracy | |
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The Financial Collapse of 2008 | |
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Obama's Call for 'Renewal' | |
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Unfinished Business in the War on Terror | |
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The Pakistani Tinderbox | |
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Target bin Laden | |
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Withdrawal from Iraq | |
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Ongoing Threats of Nuclear Proliferation | |
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Iran's Quest for 'Nuclear Rights' | |
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Nuclear Brinkmanship in North Korea | |
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The Balance of Power in Flux | |
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Cracks in the Unipolar Order | |
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The Arab Spring and U.S. Response | |
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Regime Change in Tunisia and Egypt | |
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NATO's Libya Gambit | |
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Contagion in the Middle East | |
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China's Pacific Challenge | |
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Struggles in Russia and the 'Eurozone' | |
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Rediscovering America | |
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U.S. Administrations since World War II | |
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Chronology of Significant Events, 1945-2011 | |
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Select Bibliography | |
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Select Websites | |
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Select Blogs on American Foreign Policy | |
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Index | |
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Photo Credits | |