Contents -- Foreword by Kofi Annan xi -- Introduction 1 -- Early Warnings 7 -- A Telling Phone Call from Condi 7 -- A War with Multilateral Support 13 -- One, Two, Three Iraqs: The Costs of the Unilateralist Doctrine 16 -- War Games in the United Nations: A Tale of Missed Opportunities 25 -- Resolution to Act 27 -- A Tug of War 37 -- The Blair-Lagos Last-Ditch Effort 51 -- The Final Diplomatic Bets 62 -- High Noon in Iraq: Diplomacy Fails 69 -- Unilateralism in Retreat: The Hard Task of Winning the Peace in Iraq 79 -- Multilateralism under Fire 79 -- The War Deepens: The UN Is a Target 92 -- A Turn toward Tactical Multilateralism 96 -- Chapter Four Why Multilateralism Matters: The United Nations Enables the Transfer of Sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 Elections 111 -- A Sense of Loss of Direction and Moral Defeat 113 -- Negotiating the Establishment of the Iraqi Interim Government 118 -- The End of Occupation? 143 -- The 2005 Elections and the Nouri al-Maliki Government 150 -- Chapter Five Worlds Apart: The Alienation of Allies 159 -- Chile: The Distant Neighbor 164 -- Mexico: "So Far from God, So Close to the United States" 181 -- The Transatlantic Divide with the "Old Europe" 195 -- Less-Than-Willing Allies and the Failed Evidence to Go to War 215 -- Chapter Six Conclusions: The U.S. War Backtrack and the Future of Multilateralism 229 -- The Costs of a War without Friends 229 -- A Changing Attitude toward the United Nations 235 -- Why the United States Should Care about Multilateralism 240 -- Beyond Iraq: To Lead or to Impose 246 -- Notes 255 -- Acknowledgments 265 -- About the Author 269.