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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Statesmen, Partisans, and Geopolitics | |
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| The Two Faces of Grand Strategy | |
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| Statesmen as Strategic Politicians | |
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| Grand Strategy Past and Present | |
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| Grand Strategy's Microfoundations | |
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| Variations in Grand Strategy | |
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| A Model of Executive Choice | |
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| Determinants of Grand Strategy | |
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| Research Design and Outline | |
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| Why States Appease Their Foes | |
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| The Appeasement Puzzle | |
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| George Washington and the Appeasement of Britain | |
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| Britain, and the Confederacy | |
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| Hitler, and Appeasement, 1936-1939 | |
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| Appeasement Reconsidered | |
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| When States Expand | |
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| Theories of Expansionism | |
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| Republican Factionalism, and the Monroe Doctrine | |
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| Cuba, and the Threat of Domestic Populism | |
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| September 11, and the Promise of Party Realignment | |
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| Expansionism: Necessity or Choice? | |
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| Why States Underreach | |
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| Strategies of Restraint | |
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| Jacksonian Fissures and Martin Van Buren's Strategic Adjustment | |
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| Herbert Hoover, Republican Sectarianism, and Strategic Retrenchment | |
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| Bill Clinton, the Democrats, and Selective Engagement | |
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| The Paradox of Strategic "Underextension" | |
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| Conclusion: Statecraft's Twin Engines | |
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| American Balancing in Historical Perspective | |
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| Geopolitics and Partisan Politics: Managing Cross-Pressure | |
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| Secondary Powers and Nondemocracies | |
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| Barack Obama and Grand Strategy | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |