Table of Contents

Preface; Part One: The Rise and Fall of the Cold War Consensus; Chapter 1. In Search of Consensus; The Elements of Consensus; After Vietnam; After the Cold War; After September 11; Foreign Policy Legitimation; Part Two: American Foreign Policy After Vietnam; Chapter 2. The Nixon Administration; The New Majority; Peace with Honor; A Full Generation of Peace; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Chapter 3. The Carter Administration; The People's President; A Complex New World; The Arc of Crisis; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Chapter 4. The Reagan Administration; We the People; A Shining City on the Hill; The "Rescue Mission" and the "Democratic Resistance"; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Part Three: The Post-Cold War Interlude; Chapter 5. The Bush Administration; The Procedural President; From Containment to the New World Order; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Chapter 6. The Clinton Administration; The Governor-President; The Dilemmas of Armed Intervention; A Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement; A New Foreign Policy Consensus?; Part Four: The Global War on Terror; Chapter 7. The George W. Bush Administration; The Compassionate Conservative; 9/11 and Operation Enduring Freedom; A Strategy of Prevention and Enlargement; A New Foreign Policy Consensus? Part Five: Conclusions; Chapter 8. American Foreign Policy Since Nixon; The Nixon Administration; The Carter Administration; The Reagan Administration; The Bush Administration; The Clinton Administration; The George W. Bush Administration Bibliography; Index