Paradoxes of power: U.S. foreign policy in a changing world

pt. I.U.S. dominance and its limits. American primacy in perspective / Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth

The decline of America's soft power / Joseph S. Nye Jr.

The inadequacy of American power / Michael Mandelbaum

America as a European hegemon / Christopher Layne

A global power shift in the making / James F. Hoge Jr.

pt. II. An American empire? History lesson : what Woodrow Wilson can teach today's imperialists / John B. Judis

Is the U.S. an empire? / Paul W. Schroeder

The new American militarism / Andrew J. Bacevich

The American empire : the burden / Michael Ignatieff

The case for American empire / Max Boot

The empire slinks back / Niall Ferguson

pt. III. Strategic choice : unilateralism or multilateralism? Democratic realism : an American foreign policy for a unipolar world / Charles Krauthammer

After neoconservatism / Francis Fukuyama

Leadership at risk : the perils of unilateralism / Ralph G. Carter

Is American multilateralism in decline? / G. John Ikenberry

pt. IV. Attitudes toward American power at home and abroad. The paradoxes of American nationalism / Minxin Pei

Power and weakness / Robert Kagan

The effects of September 11 : a rift between Europe and America? / Todd S. Sechser

Views of a changing world 2003 : war with Iraq further divides global publics / Pew Global Attitudes Project

Taming American power / Stephen M. Walt

pt. V. Case studies in U.S. grand strategy : the war against terrorism and the invasion of Iraq. The national security strategy of the United States of America, 2002 / The White House

The case for overthrowing Saddam was unimpeachable / Christopher Hitchens

America's imperial ambition G. John Ikenberry

Realism's shining morality / Robert F. Ellsworth and Dimitri K. Simes

Bounding the global war on terrorism / Jeffrey Record

The end of the Bush revolution / Philip H. Gordon.