1. World politics: The search for peace
Case study: The Watts riots
2. The American National style
Case study: America goes to war - 1917
3. The President and Congress
Case study: The treaty of Versailles
Case study: Winning approval for the Marshall Plan
4. The department of state and the management of foreign policy
Case study: Experiences of a career foreign service officer
5. The role of military
Case study: The Korean War and General MacArthur's dismissal
6. The CIA and the intelligence community
Case study: The Bay of Pigs
7. Public opinion and foreign policy
Case study: The road to Pearl Harbor
Case study: Public opinion and the war in Vietnam
8. Ethics and foreign policy
Case study: The ethics of using the atomic bomb
9. The developing nations
Case study: The communist victory in China
Case study: United States aid to Brazil
10. The challenge of communism
Case study: origins of the Sino-Soviet split
11. The instruments of policy: The new weaponry and the new diplomacy
Case study: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Case study: Nuclear weapons and NATO
12. The instruments of policy: Economics
Case study: War debts and reparations after World War I
13. The instruments of policy: Propaganda
Case study: America through British eyes
14. A choice of tomorrows