Introduction / Roberto Rabel -- The United States and the making of a global community / Akira Iriye -- How the United States sold its soul to win the Cold War (and as a result cannot develop a coherent post-Cold War foreign policy) / Joan Hoff -- The global environment in the American century / John R. McNeill -- The United States and international security in the twenty-first century / Robert J. Lieber -- Challenges for United States foreign policy in the twenty-first century: engagement and globalization across the Pacific / Gilbert Rozman -- Foreign policy legacies of the Clinton administration for American administrations in the twenty-first century / James M. McCormick -- The United States and Japan: beyond bilateralism? / Akiko Fukushima -- The United States and the United Nations / Terence O'Brien -- Australia and Americanization: the case of the Vietnam experience / Peter Edwards -- Small country, big country / Denis McLean -- American economic leadership: a New Zealand perspective / Stephen Hoadley -- New Zealand in the American century / Erik Olssen -- Afterword / Roberto Rabel.