Using a historical approach, puts the case for major reform of US national security institutions to make them more democratically accountable.

Part One Introduction; Chapter One Looking Outward; Chapter Two Looking Inward; Chapter Three Overview of the Argument; Part Two Aspects of Engagement; Chapter Four Naming the Enemy; Chapter Five Political Subjects; Chapter Six Politics Is Now; Chapter Seven The Modernism of Radical Neofundamentalism; Chapter Eight All Politics Is Spatial; Part Three The Challenge of Radical Neofundamentalism; Chapter Nine Bin Laden's Challenge; Chapter Ten Ideological Abstraction and Concrete Presence; Chapter Eleven Peacetime Contests; Chapter Twelve Wartime Contests; Part Four Institutional Reform; Chapter Thirteen New World Security; Chapter Fourteen The Department of Foreign Affairs; Chapter Fifteen The Department of Military Operations; Chapter Sixteen The Reintegration of Intelligence; Part Five Conclusion; Chapter Seventeen Against Thucydides;