1. The Cold War Context: Lessons and Legacies W - 5

2. Lessons and Legacies Vietnam Détente Economic shocks The end of the Cold war

3. Vietnam: A profound FP setback Robert McNamara, In retrospect The power of nationalism Ignorance of history, culture and politics Unconventional warfare Lack of domestic support Executive-branch failure

4. FP Strategy and Politics Strategic failure Shattering the Cold war consensus Executive-branch: credibility gap

5. The Rise and Fall of Détente Robert McNamara and nuclear strategy Nixon and Kissinger and the Rise The significance of Afghanistan Deeper reasons: US and USSR conceptions

6. The economic shocks The Nixon shock 1971 The OPEC shocks, 1973 and 1979 NIEO The shock of Japan

7. The End of the Cold War The Reagan years US triumphalism vs. Gorbachev leadership (revisionism)

8. US Cold War FP Strategy Early Cold warVietnam, détente, economic shocks Reagan – Gorbachev era PeaceUNDétente“Peace through strength” PowerContainment, arms race Lessons of Vietnam, arms control Reagan Doctrine, arms race - arms control PrinciplesIdeological bipolarity, Third world ‘ABC’ Human Rights“Evil empire”, ‘ABC’ ProsperityLIEOOPEC, NIEO, JapanBoom and deficits

9. US Cold War FP Politics Early Cold WarVietnam, détente, economic shocks Reagan-Gorbachev era PresidencyImperialImperiledResurgent CongressDeferentialAssertiveConfrontational Executive branch ExpandingBureaucratic warfare Interest groups SupportiveOppositionalProliferation News media CheerleadersCritics Public opinion Consensus, McCarthyism “Dissensus”Polarized