Tyson Reeder is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia, USA, where he is an editor with the Papers of James Madison and specializes in Madison's tenure as secretary of state.

0. Introduction Part I: Major Themes 1. Location Empire 2. Race, Gender, Diplomacy 3. Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations 4. Migration and U.S. Foreign Relations 5. Biography 6. Public Opinion 7. Praying for Democracy: Christianity as Cultural Diplomacy in American-Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 Part II: Early Republic 8. Diplomacy and Independence 9. No "Insult Unpunished": Trade and War in the Mediterranean and North Africa, 1785-1805 10. Britain, France, and the Road to War 11. The Colossus of the North: The Iberian Empires and the United States, 1776-1823 12. China-Oriented: Early American Trade with Asia Part III: Age of Manifest Destiny 13. Before Domestic Dependent Nationhood: Entanglements of Indigenous Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy 14. U.S.-Mexico Relations in the Era of Manifest Destiny 15. Civil War Diplomacy 16. An Interplay between Manifest Destiny and American Capitalism: Early U.S.-Asia Relations Part IV: World Wars 17. Russian Roulette: The United States of America's Response to the Revolutions in Russa during World War I 18. The United States and Latin America and the Carribean, c. 1898-1940 19. Where Culture Met Policy: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Europe During World War II 20. More than a Springboard for U.S. Cold War Hegemony: Asia and World War II 21. Keeping the Peace?: A Close Look at U.S. Foreign Relations in the Postwar Period Part V: Cold War Era 22. Balancing Needs: A Reassessment of Eisenhower's Foregin Policy 23. Vietnam 24. China and United States During the Cold War: Bridging Two Eras 25. American Policy in the Middle East during the Cold War: Interests, Constraints, and Decision-making 26. Decolonization, Human Rights, and Anti-Communism: United States-African Relations in the Cold War Era 27. U.S. Policy toward Latin America and the Carribbean during the Cold War Part VI: Global Hegemony 28. Global Hegemony and American Foreign Policy: From the Cold War's End to 9/11 29. Paved with Good Intentions: United States Foreign Policy after 9/11