One : Domestic structure and foreign policy -- The role of domestic structure -- The impact of the administrative strucutre -- The nature of leadership -- Domestic structure and foreign policy: the prospects for world order -- Two : Central issues of American foreign policy -- The structural problem -- The limits of bipolarity: the nature of power in the modern period -- Political multipolarity: the changed nature of alliances -- Bipolarity and multipolarity: the conceptual problem -- An inquiry into the American national interest -- Three : The Vietnam negotiations -- The situation within South Vietnam prior to negotiations -- The environment of negotiations -- Commitment and risk in Vietnam diplomacy: the problem of the bombing halt -- Ceasefire and coalition government -- Where do we go from here?

1. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989