Introduction. Obama legacy and Trump prospect ; America, liberalism, and empire ; Plan of the work
Liberal hegemony. Officialdom ; Rule maker, rule breaker ; Friends and enemies, protector and protected ; The neoliberal economic order on the ropes ; Who-whom?
Universal empire and Westphalian ruins. Toward universal empire ; Rome and America ; Revolution, intervention, and the law of nations ; The American synthesis ; Pluralism and liberal internationalism ; Realism, liberalism, and the legal order ; The golden rule
Public bads in the illiberal world order. Freedom of navigation and East Asia ; The greater good in the greater Middle East ; Surveillance state, sanctioning state, and the new praetorian elite ; The open door and its enemies ; Recovering liberalism
Taps for republican liberty. Internationalism's broken promises ; Sacralizing militarism ; The security theory of republican liberalism ; The Old Testament and its rivals
The renovation of American foreign policy. Isolationism and globalism ; A new internationalism ; Return of the Lippmann gap ; The Nixon precedent ; Toward a new détente ; Reconstituting the European alliance ; East Asian retrenchment ; Concert versus dominance ; Heart of darkness ; Blood and oil ; Israel and the Thrasybulus Syndrome
