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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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| The Depreciation 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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| The Geopolitics of Containing Moscow | |
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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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| Nuclear Strategy and the 'Balance of Terror' | |
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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 Africa and the Middle East | |
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| National Breakdown in the Congo | |
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| Regional Rivalries: The Arab-Israeli Wars | |
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| U.S. Policy toward Latin America | |
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| Guatemala's Military Coup | |
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| The Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| Vietnam: The Limits of Containment | |
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| Eisenhower's '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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| D�tente and World-Order Politics | |
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| Managing the Superpower Rivalry | |
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| The Kissinger Philosophy | |
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| Exploiting the Sino-Soviet Split | |
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| Arms Control and the Linkage Strategy | |
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| Disillusionment with D�tente | |
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| Carter's Quest for World Order | |
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| A New Emphasis on Human Rights | |
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| Recognizing Global Interdependence | |
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| Carter's Middle East Breakthrough | |
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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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| Abuses of the Reagan Doctrine: 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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| Reducing Arms and 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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| The Pakistani Tinderbox | |
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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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| A 'New Way Forward' | |
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| Flashbacks to Vietnam | |
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| A World of Trouble | |
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| New Threats of Nuclear Proliferation | |
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| Breakout in North Korea | |
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| Iran's Quest for 'Nuclear Rights' | |
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| Renewed Bloodshed in Israel | |
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| A Russian Power Play | |
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| Economic Strains and a Global Crisis | |
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| East Asia's Reversal of Fortune | |
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| Rising Discontent in Latin America | |
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| The Financial Collapse of 2008 | |
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| Conclusion: America's Reckoning | |
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| The Balance of Power in Flux | |
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| Internal Threats to Democracy | |
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| Return of the 'Imperical' Presidency? | |
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| New Restrictions on Personal Freedom | |
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| Redefining Torture of War Prisoners | |
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| A New President and Vision | |
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| Obama's Unlikely Rise to Power | |
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| Changing Course in Foreign Policy | |
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| Prospects for Renewal | |
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| U.S. Administrations since World War II | |
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| Chronology of Significant Events | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Select Web Sites | |
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| Select Blogs on American Foreign Policy | |
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| Index | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| MAPS | |
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| Soviet Expansion in Europe, 1939-1948 | |
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| The Korean War, 1950-1953 | |
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| U.S. Cold War Alliances | |
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| Africa in 1945 | |
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| Africa Today | |
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| Latin America | |
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| The Vietnam War | |
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| Post-Soviet Eurasia after 1991 | |
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| The Persian Gulf, with Key Oil Fields and Pipelines | |
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| South Asia | |
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| The European Union | |
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| The Former Yugoslavia | |
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| The War in Afghanistan, Autumn 2001 | |
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| Ethnic and Religious Groups in Iraq | |
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| Tables | |
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| Figures | |
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| Figures (cont.) | |
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| U.S. War Casualties in Iraq, March 2003-February 2009 | |
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| Falling Fortunes: Index of Four Global Stock Markets, September 30-October 27, 2008 | |
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| Impact and Influence Boxes | |
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| Woodrow Wilson | |
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| George Kennan | |
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| Mao Zedong | |
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| Fidel Castro | |
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| Robert McNamara | |
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| Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin | |
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| Oliver North | |
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| Mikhali Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin | |
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| Jesse Helms | |
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| Yasir Arafat | |
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| Madeleine Albright | |
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| Osama bin Laden | |
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| Saddam Hussein | |
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| Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao | |
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| Hillary Clinton | |