Title Page; Contents; Preface; 1 | A Surfeit of Politics: or, Why I Would Have Preferred the Nineteenth Century; 2 | Growing Up under the Nazis: or, Why One Had to Be There to Understand It; 3 | Marxism, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War: or, The Dream That Failed; 4 | The Downfall and Partial Resurgence of the Soviet Empire: or, The Strange Fortunes of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, "Finlandization," and Putinism; 5 | A Middle East Education: or, Reflections on Arabia, Israel, Zionism, and Antisemitism; 6 | Think Tanks and Political Intelligence: or, Why It Is So Difficult to Predict |
7 | Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism: or, What Systematic Study and Theory Can Mean8 | Europe, 1945- 2008: or, A Short Study in Hope and Frustration; Postface; Works by Walter Laqueur; Index |