The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II

Preface 1. Measuring Violence 2. Legacies of World War II 3. Cold War Nuclear Terror 4. Cold War Wars 5. Proxy War and Surrogate Terror 6. New and Old World Orders: The 1990s 7. September 11 and "A New Kind of War" 8. Arcs of Instability 9. The American Century at Seventy-Five Notes Index