America unrivaled: the future of the balance of power

Introduction / G. John Ikenberry

Part I. Durability of unipolarity

Structural realism after the Cold War / Kenneth N. Waltz

Hollow hegemony or stable multipolarity? / Charles A. Kupchan

U.S. strategy in a unipolar world / William C. Wohlforth

Part II. Management of unipolarity

Keeping the world "off balance" : self restraint and U.S. foreign policy / Stephen M. Walt

Defying history and theory : the United States as the "last remaining superpower" / Josef Joffe

Incomplete hegemony and security order in the Asia-Pacific / Michael Mastanduno

Part III. Institutions and ideology of unipolarity

Democracy, institutions, and American restraint / G. John Ikenberry

Transnational liberalism and American primacy, or, Benignity is in the eye of the beholder / John M. Owen IV

U.S. power in a liberal security community / Thomas Risse

American unipolarity : the sources of persistence and decline / G. John Ikenberry.