Preface
Introduction

What's the subject?
What's the objective?
Who's the audience?
Invitations to struggle
Plan of the book

Chapter 1: Understanding the Iraq War Debate
Background
Interests
The threat
Tools
Conclusion

Chapter 2: Interests
The "national interest"
Thinking about national interests
Types of interests
Prioritizing interests
The problem of interest inflation
Values and interests
A harmony of interests and values?
Interests over values
Duties beyond borders
Conclusion

Debating Interests, Past and Present
Past: Vietnam
Present: Syria

Chapter 3: Threats
Inferring intentions: knowing the unobservable
What others say
What others have
What other do
Conclusion

Assessing Threats, Past and Present
Past: The Soviet Union and Détente
Present: China's Peaceful Rise?

Chapter 4: Tools
Hard power I: military force
Hard power II: economic coercion
Soft power
Conclusion

Evaluating Tools, Past and Present
Past: Iraq and economic sanctions, 1990-1991
Present: economic sanctions and Iran, 2006-?

Chapter 5: Putting the Puzzle Together: Competing Visions for U.S. Foreign Policy
Restraint: interests
Restraint: nuclear proliferation
Restraint: terrorism
Restraint: values and interests
Primacy: interests
Primacy: threats
Primacy: tools
Liberal internationalism: interests
Liberal internationalism: tools
Conclusion