The most up-to-date readings on the current debate about U.S. empire

Introduction; I: U.S. Dominance and Its Limits; 1: American Primacy in Perspective; 2: The Decline of America's Soft Power; 3: The Inadequacy of American Power; 4: America as a European Hegemon; 5: A Global Power Shift in the Making; II: An American Empire?; 6: History Lesson; 7: Is the U.S. an Empire?; 8: The New American Militarism; 9: The American Empire; 10: The Case for American Empire; 11: The Empire Slinks Back; III: Strategic Choice; 12: Democratic Realism; 13: After Neoconservatism; 14: Leadership at Risk; 15: Is American Multilateralism in Decline?; IV: Attitudes toward American Power at Home and Abroad; 16: The Paradoxes of American Nationalism; 17: Power and Weakness; 18: The Effects of September 11; 19: Views of a Changing World 2003; 20: Taming American Power; V: Case Studies in U.S. Grand Strategy; 21: The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2002; 22: The Case for Overthrowing Saddam Was Unimpeachable; 23: America's Imperial Ambition; 24: Realism's Shining Morality; 25: Bounding the Global War on Terrorism; 26: The End of the Bush Revolution; Conclusion