A Breakfast for Bonaparte: U.S. National Security Interests from the Heights of Abraham to the Nuclear Age
Abstract:
Contents Part 1 - By Way of Conceptual Framework On War and Peace The State System The Balance of Power and the Concept of Peace The Quest for Peace From the Congress of Vienna to the United Nations Charter Part II - Americas Diplomatic Apprenticeship, 1776-1947 From Sea to Shining Sea Americas Conception of Its Foreign Policy Europes Troubles, Americas Opportunity, 1776-1801 Europes Troubles, Americas Opportunity, 1801-1830 The United States Within the Concert of Europe, 1830-1865 Premonitions of Change, 1865-1914 The Death of the Vienna System, July 1914 The Vienna System Reborn, April 1917 The Interwar Years The Precarious Birth of the Modern World, 1919- 1920 Part III - The Age of Truman and Acheson, 1945 to the Present The Soviet Union Reaches for Hegemony The Stalin Years The Nuclear Dimension A Case Study Conclusion The Gorbachev Era and Beyond.