Preface to the Ninth Edition

Introduction: The Burden of History (to 1941)

1. Open Doors, Iron Curtains (1941-1945)

2. Only Two Declarations of Cold War (1946)

3. Two Halves of the Same Walnut (1947-1948)

4. The “Different World” of NSC-68 (1948-1950)

5. Korea: The War for Both Asia and Europe (1950-1951)

6. New Issues, New Faces (1951-1953)

7. A Different Cold War (1953-1955)

8. East and West of Suez (1954-1957)

9. New Frontiers and Old Dilemmas (1957-1962)

10. Southeast Asia—and Elsewhere (1962-1966)

11. A New Containment: The Rise and Fall of Détente (1966-1976)

12. From Cold War to Old War: Reagan and Gorbachev (1977-1989)

13. A New World Order—Or the Age of Fragmentation? (1989-1993)

14. The Post-Cold-War Era: Clinton, Yeltsin, and back to a Bush (1993-)

Bibliography for Additional Reading

Index