Nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States, while trying to maintain some independence of action in case America becomes isolationist. Meanwhile the U.S. is being pulled in different directions by its own economic and security requirements, leading to policy contradictions that must be resolved if the "unipolar" moment is to endure.

1. Realism and International Relations After the Cold War, by Michael Mastanduno and Ethan B. Kapstein 2. Realism and the Present Great Power System: Growth and Positional Conflict Over Scarce Resources, by Randall L. Schweller 3. The Political Economy of Realism, by Jonathan Kirshner 4. Realism Structural Liberalism, and the Western Order, by Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberr 5. Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S. Grand Strategy After the Cold War, by Michael Mastanduno 6. Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy, by Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels 7. Realism and Russian Strategy after the Collapse of the USSR, by Neil MacFarlane 8. Realism(s) and Chinese Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Period, by Alastair Iain Johnston 9. Realism and Regionalism: American Power and German and Japanese Institutional Strategies During and After the Cold War, by Joseph M. Grieco 10. Realism and Reconciliation: France, Germany, and the European Union, by Michael Loriaux 11. Neorealism Nuclear Proliferation, and East-Central European Strategies, by Mark Kramer 12. Does Unipolarity Have A Future?, by Ethan B. Kapstein

Nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States, while trying to maintain some independence of action in case America becomes isolationist. Meanwhile the U.S. is being pulled in different directions by its own economic and security requirements, leading to policy contradictions that must be resolved if the "unipolar" moment is to endure.