| Contents |
Introduction : breaking the realist/idealist logjam -- pt. I. The past is prologue. The revolution of 1989 and the restoration of history -- Death of a heresy : the new Russian revolution -- Who won the Cold War? How? So what? -- Settling accounts : a post-communist political and moral reckoning -- pt. II. The elements of strategy. Lessons from the fifty-five years' war : ideas, passions, and history -- Beyond moralism and realpolitik : notes toward redefining "America's purpose" -- The new colonialism, and other political incorrectness -- Why the new isolationists are wrong -- pt. III. The world and us - five issues. Just war after the Gulf War -- "Humanitarian intervention" : history, strategy, and morality in the Bosnian crisis -- Waiting for Augustine : Islam and the West -- After the Twin Towers attack : terrorism in America -- The new human-rights debate -- Afterword : the responsible superpower. |
