The new world order
The hinge : Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson
From university to equilibrium : Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt
The concert of Europe : Great Britain, Austria, and Russia
Two revolutionaries : Napoleon III and Bismarck
Realpolitik turns on itself
A political doomsday machine : European diplomacy before the First World War
Into the vortex : the military doomsday machine
The new face of diplomacy : Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
The dilemmas of the victors
Stresemann and the re-emergence of the vanquished
The end of illusion : Hitler and the destruction of Versailles
Stalin's bazaar
The Nazi-Soviet pact
America re-enters the arena : Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Three approaches to peace : Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II
The beginning of the Cold War
The success and the pain of containment
The dilemma of containment : the Korean War
Negotiating with the Communists : Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower
Leapfrogging containment : the Suez crisis
Hungary : upheaval in the Empire
Khrushchev's ultimatum : the Berlin crisis 1958-63
Concepts of Western unity : Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy
Vietnam : entry into the morass; Truman and Eisenhower
Vietnam : on the road to despair; Kennedy and Johnson
Vietnam : the extrication; Nixon
Foreign policy as geopolitics : Nixon's triangular diplomacy
Detente and its discontents
The end of the Cold War : Reagan and Gorbachev
The new world order reconsidered.