Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Conditions -- 1. Sickly Sapling, Glorious Tree? -- 2. Multilateralism and Engagement -- 3. The US Global Security Guarantee and UN Collective Security -- Part Two: Heuristics -- 4. Always Engage: The United States and the Security Council -- 5. Sometimes Engage: Internal UN Management and the General Secretariat, the Buyout of the UN-that-Works, and Containment of the UN-that-Doesn't -- 6. Parallel Engagement: International Development and Global Human Welfare -- 7. Disengage and Obstruct: The UN-of-Values and the Human Rights Council -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- About the Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law -- Index.