Introduction / Inderjeet Parmar / Linda B. Miller / Mark Ledwidge
Part I. Theorising contemporary US foreign policy
1. Realism / Thomas M. Kane
2. Constructivism, US foreign policy and the 'war on terror' / Richard Jackson / Matt Mcdonald
3. Neo-conservatism: theory and practice / Robert Singh
4. Liberalism and neoliberalism / Timothy J. Lynch
5. Marxism and US foreign policy / Doug Stokes
Part II. Non-state actors in US foreign policy
6. Parties, partisanship and US foreign policy: the growing divide / Steven Hurst
7. What were they thinking? Think tanks, the Bush presidency and US foreign policy / Donald E. Abelson
8. Intellectuals and US foreign policy / Aggie Hirst
9. Christian evangelicals and US foreign policy / Stuart Croft
10. American foreign policy after the Bush administration: insights from the public / James M. Mccormick
11. Race, African-Americans and US foreign policy / Mark Ledwidge
Part III. New policy directions
12. Transatlantic relations and US foreign policy / David Hastings Dunn
13. US national security: still an ambiguous symbol? Still an illusion? / Linda B. Miller
14. The US and the Middle East in theory and practice since 9/11 / Linda B. Miller
15. The US and the UN: the return of the prodigal son? / Craig N. Murphy
16. Democracy promotion and the New Public Diplomacy / Giles Scott-Smith / Martijn Mos
17. Illusions of empire and the spectre of decline / Nicholas Kitchen / Michael Cox
18. Internationally recognized core labor standards under the George W. Bush Administration / Christopher Candland