Introduction / Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro -- A farewell to geopolitics / Stephen Van Evera -- End of dreams, return of history / Robert Kagan -- Beyond statecraft / Charles S. Maier -- Liberal order building / G. John Ikenberry -- Boss of bosses / James Kurth -- Legitimacy and competence / Samantha Power -- Two concepts of sovereignty / David M. Kennedy -- A shackled hegemon / Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin -- Soft talk, big stick / Francis Fukuyama -- The problem of conjecture / Niall Ferguson -- Dilemmas of strategy / Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro.