[PART] I: THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FROM THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT: The emergence of the great powers
Eighteenth-Century diplomacy
Balance of power, 1815-1914: three experiments
System-building, 1919-1939
Public opinion and foreign policy
Economics and foreign policy
Totalitarian and democratic diplomacy, 1919-1939
A postwar system of security: Great-Power directorate or United Nations?
The Cold War as international system
From detente to the end of the Cold War
The evolving internationaal system. [PART] II: MAINTAINING THE SYSTEM: PROBLEMS OF FORCE AND DIPLOMACY: Knowledge for statecraft: lessons of history
The role of force in diplomacy: a continuing dilemma for U.S. foreign policy
Problems of ethical and moral restraints on the use of force in foreign policy
EPILOGUE: Some reflections on the diplomatic revolution.