Preface / Daniel A. Sharp, Peter Tarnoff

Introduction and overview / Graham Allision, Gregory F.Treverton ; Rethinking the concept of national security. National security portfolio review / Graham Allison, Gregory F. Treverton ; The primacy of the domestic agenda / Peter G. Peterson with James K. Sebenius ; National security in American history / Ernest R. May

Rethinking the dimensions of national security. Technology and U.S. national security / B.R. Inman, Daniel F. Burton Jr. ; Industrial competitiveness and national security / Michael Borrus, John Zysman with assistance from David Bell ; The new defense strategy / Paul D. Wolfowitz ; The global dimension / T.C. Schelling

Visions of the new international order. Disorder restored / John J. Mearsheimer ; Balance of power sustained / Henry A. Kissinger ; A new concept for Europe / Charles A. Kupchan, Clifford A. Kupchan ; Practical internationalism / Richard N. Gardner ; The uneven, but growing, role of international law / John H. Barton, Barry E. Carter ; The unipolar moment / Charles Krauthammer ; An international liberal community / Michael W. Doyle

Thinking beyond the Gulf War. Military lessons and U.S. forces / William E. Odom ; The hard realities of the Arab-Israeli conflict / George Ball ; U.S.-Japan relations in a changing strategic environment / Alan D. Romberg ; The grand bargain: the West and the future of the Soviet Union / Graham Allison, Robert Blackwill ; The end of American history: American security, the national purpose, and the New World Order / David C. Hendrickson

Conclusion : getting from here to where? / Gregory F. Treverton, Barbara A. Bicksler.