Table of Contents:
  • Theory, history, and U.S. grand strategy
  • World War II and the foundations of American global hegemony
  • U.S. grand strategy and the Soviet Union, 1945-1953
  • The open door and American hegemony in Western Europe
  • The containment of Europe : American hegemony and European responses
  • Liberal ideology and U.S. grand strategy
  • The end of the unipolar era
  • The strategy of offshore balancing.