America's foreign policy: Product, process, and purpose -- Ideals and self interest: The American way -- Hegemony and insolvency: The burdens of a great power -- Between wars: Collective security and delusions of peace -- The cold war: Containment and deterrence -- Intervention against Communism: From Kennedy to Reagan -- Democracy and anarchy: America in the new world order -- From intervention to preemption: America's new crusade -- Power, principles, and war: The limits of foreign policy