Foreward -- Preface to the tenth edition -- Introduction: The burden of history (To 1941) -- 1. Open doors, Iron Curtains (1941-1945) -- 2. Only two Declarations of Cold War (1946) -- 3. Two halves of the same walnut (1947-1948) -- 4. The "Different World" of NSC-68 (1948-1950) -- 5. Korea. The War for both Asia and Europe (1950-1951) -- 6. New issues, new faces (1951-1953) -- 7. A Different Cold War (1953-1955) -- 8. East and West of Suez (1954-1957) -- 9. New frontiers and old dilemmas (1957-1962) -- 10. Southest Asia--and elsewhere (1962-1966) -- 11. A New Containment: The rise and fall of detente (1966-1976) -- 12. From Cold War to Old War: Reagan and Gorbachev (1977-1989) -- 13. A new world order--Or the Age of Fragmentation? (1989-1993) -- 14. The post-Cold War Era: Clinton, Yeltsin, and back to a Bush (1993-2000) -- 15. The World turned upside down (2001-2006) -- Index