Introduction: the past / Geir Lundestad

Evolving structure of world politics, 1991-2011 / Stewart Patrick

From realism to the liberal peace: twenty years of research on the causes of war / John R. Oneal

War, democracy, and peace / John Mueller

Victory: The "State," the "West," and the Cold War / Melvyn P. Leffler

The United States and the Cold War: four ideas that shaped the twentieth-century world / Jeremi Suri

The Cold War and its legacy / Vladimir O. Pechatnov

Two finales: how the end of the Third World and the end of the Cold War are linked / Odd Arne Westad

Nuclear weapons and international relations since the end of the Cold War / David Holloway

Development of the arms race and how we think about it / Olav Njølstad

Between primacy and decline: America's role in the post-Cold War world / Jussi M. Hanhimäki

Russia and the West: twenty difficult years / Vladislav Zubok

European Union at twenty: can Europe be saved? / Frédéric Bozo

China's prolonged rise: legitimacy challenges and dilemmas in the reform and opening-up era / Chen Jian

After the West? towards a new international system? / Michael Cox

Conclusion: the future / Geir Lundestad.