Introduction : whither American power? / David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
1. Empire? : the Bush doctrine and the lessons of history / Michael Cox
2. The first failed empire of the twenty-first century / Michael Mann
3. Liberal hegemony or empire? : American power in the age of unipolarity / G. John Ikenberry
4. Hard power, soft power, and "the war on terrorism" / Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
5. Power and weakness / Robert Kagan
6. The goals of diplomacy, hard power, and soft power / Robert Cooper
7. American power : from "compellance" to cosmopolitanism? / Mary Kaldor
8. Beyond Iraq : the crisis of the transatlantic security community / Thomas Risse
9. The Bush doctrine : a Chinese perspective / Zhiyuan Cui
10. Waiting for Armageddon : the "mother of all empires" and its Middle East quagmire / Abdelwahab El-Affendi.
