Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Preface ............................................................................................ xiii
Overview: Hegemony
Chapter 1 The American Way of Empire:
The Seventy-Year Life of the U.S. Alliance System ........ 3
Part I: Ideology
Chapter 2 The Protestant Deformation:
The Source of the Ideological Tradition ....................... 57
Chapter 3 War, Peace, and the Ideologies of the
20th Century .............................................................. 81
Chapter 4 Democratization: Successes and Failures ..................... 97
Chapter 5 The Adolescent Empire: America and the
Imperial Idea ............................................................ 115
Part II: Strategy
Chapter 6 Grand Strategy: The Source of the
Realist Tradition ....................................................... 139
Chapter 7 Grand Strategy in the Global Era .............................. 167
Chapter 8 The American Way of Victory ................................... 197
Chapter 9 Europe: NATO Expansion versus the
Russian Sphere .......................................................... 215
Chapter 10 The Pacific: The U.S. Alliance system
versus the Chinese Seas ............................................. 231
Part II
Chapter 6 Grand Strategy: The Source of the
Realist Tradition ....................................................... 139
Chapter 7 Grand Strategy in the Global Era .............................. 167
Chapter 8 The American Way of Victory ................................... 197
Chapter 9 Europe: NATO Expansion versus the
Russian Sphere .......................................................... 215
Chapter 10 The Pacific: The U.S. Alliance system
versus the Chinese Seas ............................................. 231
Part III: Insurgency
Chapter 11 Globalization, Empire, and Islamist Terrorism .......... 259
Chapter 12 The Iraq War: Global Ideology versus
Local Realities ........................................................... 277
Chapter 13 The Neo-Conservatives and the Iraq War .................. 303
Chapter 14 Empire and Immigration .......................................... 319
Part IV: Political Economy
Chapter 15 Between America and the World:
The New York Foreign Policy Elite ............................ 339
Chapter 16 The Foreign Policy of Plutocracies: A Tale
of Two Countries – and Two Kinds of Wealth .......... 365
Chapter 17 Creating a Second American Century ....................... 393
Conclusion .................................................................................... 411
Acknowledgements ........................................................................ 419
End Notes ..................................................................................... 423
Bibliography .................................................................................. 433
Index ............................................................................................. 437
About the Author .......................................................................... 445