Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The challenge of the Third World / Robert J. McMahon
  • His finest hour? Eisenhower, Lebanon, and the 1958 Middle East crisis / Douglas Little
  • The Caribbean triangle : Betancourt, Castro, and Trujillo and U.S. foreign policy, 1958-1963 / Stephen G. Rabe
  • "Flee! The white giants are coming!" : The United States, mercenaries, and the Congo, 1964-1965 / Piero Gleijeses
  • The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1968 : capitalism, communism, and containment / Robert Buzzanco
  • Decolonization, the Cold War, and the foreign policy of the Peace Corps / Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
  • The influence of organized labor on U.S. policy toward Israel, 1945-1967 / Peter L. Hahn
  • Real men don't wear pajamas : Anglo-American cultural perceptions of Mohammed Mossadeq and the Iranian oil nationalization dispute / Mary Ann Heiss
  • Gender relations, foreign relations : the United States and South Asia, 1947-1964 / Andrew J. Rotter
  • Like boxing with Joe Louis : Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela, 1945-1948 / Darlene Rivas
  • "Fuel for the good dragon" : the United States and industrial policy in Taiwan, 1950-1965 / Nick Cullather