Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Argument and Plan of the Work -- Theoretical Contributions and Methodology -- Theoretical Contributions -- Methodology -- 1 The Theory of Cosmopolitan Power -- The Conventional Vision of Power: Hard Power and the Realists -- Soft Power -- More on the Relationship between Soft and Hard Power -- The Growing Importance of Soft Power -- The Principles of Cosmopolitan Power -- Principle 1: The optimization of both absolute and relative power can be a legitimate goal of statecraft -- Principle 2: National power is endogenous -- Principle 3: Nations will optimize their security -- Principle 4: Anarchy is still pervasive in the international system -- Principle 5: Power optimization and security can occur only through the combination of both hard and soft power resources -- The Signature Processes of Cosmopolitan Power: Soft Empowerment, Hard Disempowerment, and Optimal Diversification -- Soft Empowerment -- Hard Disempowerment -- Diversification -- The Mechanics of the Signature Processes: Soft Empowerment, Hard Disempowerment, and Optimal Diversification -- Soft Empowerment -- Hard Disempowerment -- Optimal Diversification -- Prescriptions for Instituting Strategies of Cosmopolitan Power: Promoting Soft Empowerment and Avoiding Hard Disempowerment -- 2 Crucial-Case Textual Analysis of the Founding Fathers of Realism: The Classical Inspirations -- The Classical Realists -- Thomas Hobbes -- Thucydides -- Machiavelli -- 3 Crucial-Case Textual Analysis of the Founding Fathers of Realism: The Modern Inspirations -- Edward Hallett Carr -- Hans Morgenthau -- 4 Case Studies of Soft Empowerment: Free Trade, the Classical Gold Standard, and Dollarization -- Great Britain and the Rise of Free Trade in the Nineteenth Century.

Great Britain and the Classical Gold Standard, 1880 to 1914 -- Dollarization in the Modern Era -- 5 Case Study of Hard Disempowerment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Bush Doctrine -- The Bush Doctrine and Hard Power -- American Hard Disempowerment under the Bush Doctrine -- The Moral Hazard of the Bush Doctrine and Soft Power -- A Vicious Cycle of American Unilateralism -- Failure in Decision Making -- 6 Case Study of Soft Empowerment: The Power of Modern American Culture -- The Endearing Allure of American Culture -- The Chariots of American Culture -- Empowerment through Culture: General Applications -- Empowerment through Culture: Specific Applications to America's Big Three Goals of Foreign Policy -- Political and Economic Transition -- Terrorism -- Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Public Diplomacy -- 7 Conclusions -- Toward a New Paradigm of International Relations: Some Thoughts on a Pre-Theory of Cosmopolitik -- Appendix: Formal Model of Cosmopolitan Power -- Optimizing Power Through Diversification, a Model of Optimal Diversification among Hard and Soft Power Resources -- Endogenizing Risk -- Operationalizing Strategies for Optimization -- References -- Index.