- Chapter 1: The Strategic Context: Foreign Policy Strategy and the Essence of Choice
- Chapter 2: The Domestic Context: Foreign Policy Politics and the Process of Choice
- Chapter 3: The Historical Context: Great Debates in American Foreign Policy, 1789-1945
- Chapter 4: The Cold War Context: Origins and First Stages
- Chapter 5: The Cold War Context: Lessons and Legacies
- Chapter 6: Foreign Policy Strategy and Foreign Policy Politics in a New Era
- Chapter 7: Post-Cold War Geopolitics
- Chapter 8: 9/11, Iraq, and the Middle East
- Chapter 9: Never Again or Yet Again? Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention
- Chapter 10: Globalization Agenda
- Chapter 11: The Coming of a Democratic Century?