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A: 
Introduction: The American Century’s Centennial
 
B:
I. Fundaments of U.S. Foreign Policy
        1. The American Mission
        2. No entangling alliances & the primacy of trade
        3. The Monroe Doctrine of 1823
        4. American Exceptionalism
 
II. The Entry on the World Stage
        1. Preaching Imperialism
        2. McKinley and the Spanish American War of 1898
        3. The New Empire and ‘The Great Debate’ of 1898
        4. China’s potential: The Open-Door Policy
 
III. Theodore Roosevelt and Big Stick Imperialism
        1. ‘Strenuous Life’ - The Personality of Imperialism
        2. Roosevelt and the USA in Asia
        3. ‘Our Backyard’: Caribbean Intervention
        4. ‘Carry a Big Stick’: The Panama Canal Case
 
IV. Setting a new basis: Idealism
        1. Dollar Diplomacy
        2. Wilsonian Internationalism:
               a) Stability and Change: Central America
               b) World War I :‘He Kept Us Out Of War’
               c) World War I: ‘Make the world safe for democracy’
               d) The failed dream: Talking Peace and The League
 
V. The Republican Era: ‘American Individualism’
         1. New Rules for the Game
                a) Disarmament 
                b) Development
         2. A losing battle
                a) The Asian bully: Japan and China
                b) Prosperity around which corner ? - Great Depression
 
VI. FDR: From ‘Splendid Isolation’ to Decisive Entanglement
          1. Refocusing: America First
          2. Bringing Latin America in line: Good Neighborhood 
          3. Closing the eyes: Isolationist Desire
          4. World War II : Towards an entangling alliance
 
VII. The Road to the Cold War
          1. Differing visions for the post-war world
          2. A need to contain ?
                a) Confronting the Reds in Europe and Asia 
                b) The Long Telegram, the Truman-Doctrine and NSC 68
          3. The One-Way Road: Deliberate Multiple Entanglement
 
VIII. At the End of ‘Its Century’: Only Remaining Superpower
          1. The need to re-assess: Enemy lost
          2. Will there be another American Century ?
 
C: 
Notes, Bibliography and Index of Images