Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue -- When History Comes -- While History Lingers -- Notes -- Part I Getting It Done, Half a World, A Free World -- 1 Memories of Leadership -- Bound to Lead -- Half Past Europe, Half Before America -- Getting Started -- Where Have the Leaders Gone? -- Promises Kept -- Promises, Promises -- 2 Rising to Primacy -- Here to Stay -- Mapping Expectations -- First Take -- At War Abroad -- Getting in -- Getting Out -- 3 False Starts -- No Time to Come Home -- The Clinton Promise -- The Russian Lesson -- Russia Is Back -- Russia Reset -- The Threat Elsewhere -- No Exit -- We're All at War Now -- Part II Letting Go- A World Undone, A Whole World -- 4 A World Unhinged -- No Rest for the West -- Bad War, Wrong Place -- Second Take -- A Zero-Polar Moment -- Post-Wars Agenda -- Post-Secular Agenda -- Post-National Agenda -- Who Will Steal the Show? -- Power and Weaknesses -- Europe, as a Union but with the United States -- Russia, against the West but without the Rest -- An ascending China and Asia's red lines -- As Time Goes by -- 5 A World on Edge -- Faux Multipolarity -- Superpower by Improvisation -- Mapping the Power Transitions -- Crises of Apprenticeship -- The Obama Moment -- It's the World, Stupid -- 6 Make America Whole Again -- Half Past Trump -- A Quarter Before Biden -- Bibliography. |