Table of Contents

Part 1 After Versailles the 1920s: Germany since the War, Karl Kautsky; nationalism and internationalism, Alfred E. Zimmern; Lenin, Victor Chernov; concerning Senator Borah, Walter Lippmann. Part 2 The gathering storm, the 1930s: the Great Depression, Edwin F. Gay; imperialism and communism, Nikolai Bukharin; of liberty, Benedetto Croce; dictatorship of the mind, Heinrich Mann; civilization on trial, H.G. Wells. Part 3 War and victory, the 1940s: a turning point in history, Arnold J. Toynbee; pacifism and democracy, Julien Benda; the critic turns actor, James B. Reston; the challenge to Americans, Henry L. Stimson. Part 4 A Cold War, the 1950s: the sources of Soviet conduct, George F. Kennan; reflections on American diplomacy, Henry A. Kissinger; the delicate balance of terror, Albert Wohlstetter; the silence in Russian culture, Isaiah Berlin; the realities in Africa - European profit or negro development?, W.E.B. Du Bois; the underdeveloped and the overdeveloped, Margaret Mead; Wormwood and Gall - an introspective note on American diplomacy, A. Whitney Griswold. Part 5 The quagmire of Vietnam, the 1960s: to intervene or not to intervene, Hans J. Morgenthau; The Vietnam negotiations, Henry A. Kissinger; American intellectuals and foreign policy, Irving Kristol; A Vietnam reappraisal - the personal history of one man's view and how it evolved, Clark M. Clifford. Part 6 An age of limits, the 1970s: isolated America, Hamilton Fish Armstrong; the strategy of terrorism, David Fromkin; the end of Pan-Arabism, Fouad Ajami; a monetary system for the future, Richard N. Cooper; human rights and the American tradition, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; human rights and foreign policy - a proposal, William F. Buckley, Jr. Part 7 The collapse of communism, the 1980s: misconceptions about Russia are a threat to America, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; can the Soviet Union reform, Richard Pipes; communism in Russian history, George F. Kennan; the Cold War and its aftermath, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Part 8 An uncertain new order, the 1990s: technology and sovereignty, Walter B. Wriston; power shift, Jessica T. Mathews; the bent twig - a note on nationalism, Isaiah Berlin; the clash of civilizations?, Samuel P. Huntington; the last ambassador - a memoir of the collapse of Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmermann; competitiveness - a dangerous obsession, Paul Krugman; culture is destiny - a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew, Fareed Zakaria.