1 The New World Order 17
2 The Hinge: Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson 29
3 From Universality to Equilibrium: Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt 56
4 The Concert of Europe: Great Britain, Austria, and Russia 78
5 Two Revolutionaries: Napoleon III and Bismarck 103
6 Realpolitik Turns on Itself 137
7 A Political Doomsday Machine: European Diplomacy Before the First World War 168
8 Into the Vortex: The Military Doomsday Machine 201
9 The New Face of Diplomacy: Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles 218
10 The Dilemmas of the Victors 246
11 Stresemann and the Re-emergence of the Vanquished 266
12 The End of Illusion: Hitler and the Destruction of Versailles 288
13 Stalin's Bazaar 332
14 The Nazi-Soviet Pact 350
15 America Re-enters the Arena: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 369
16 Three Approaches to Peace: Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II 394
17 The Beginning of the Cold War 423
18 The Success and the Pain of Containment 446
19 The Dilemma of Containment: The Korean War 473
20 Negotiating with the Communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower 493
21 Leapfrogging Containment: The Suez Crisis 522
22 Hungary: Upheaval in the Empire 550
23 Krushchev's Ultimatum: The Berlin Crisis 1958-63 568
24 Concepts of Western Unity: Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy 594
25 Vietnam: Entry into the Morass; Truman and Eisenhower 620
26 Vietnam: On the Road to Despair; Kennedy, and Johnson 643
27 Vietnam: The Extrication; Nixon 674
28 Foreign Policy as Geopolitics: Nixon's Triangular Diploma