Cold war and after history, theory, and the logic of international politics

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The question of realism: an historian's view -- The problem of international order and how to think about it -- The United States and Eastern Europe in 1945: a reassessment -- America, Europe, and German rearmament, August-September 1950: a critique of a myth -- The making of the western defense system: France, the United States, and MC 48 -- The structure of great power politics, 1963-75 -- The French factor in U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon-Pompidou period -- Preventive war and U.S. foreign policy -- The Iraq crisis and the future of the western alliance.