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The context of U.S. foreign policy: theory and history: The strategic context: foreign policy strategy and the essence of choice ; The domestic context: foreign policy politics and the process of choice ; The historical context: great debates in American foreign policy, 1789-1945 ; The Cold War context: origins and first stages ; The Cold War context: lessons and legacies -- American foreign policy in the twenty-first century: choices and challenges: Foreign policy politics: diplomacy begins at home ; Peace: building a post-Cold War world order? ; Power: still the name of the game? ; prosperity: foreign economic and social policy in an age of globalization ; Principles: the coming of a democratic century?