American foreign policy since World War II

1. The American approach to foreign policy.

2. From world war to cold war.

3. Containment: from theory to practice.

4. Defining spheres of influence.

5. The Third World in the crossfire.

6. Vietnam and the cost of containment.

7. The era of superpower détente.

8. Jimmy Carter and world-order politics.

9. The revival of superpower confrontation.

10. Ending the cold war: negotiating the terms of peace.

11. Old tensions in a new order.

12. New frontiers of American foreign policy.

13. America at the millenium.