American Leadership in World Affairs

Ole R. Holsti and James N. Rosenau

• 1. Beneath the Flaps, Flips and Flops of American Foreign Policy 2. Vietnam, Consensus and the Belief System of American Leaders, 1976: Beliefs About the War 3. Vietnam, Consensus and the Belief System of American Leaders, 1976: Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy Issues 4. The Three-Headed Eagle 1976: Three Perspectives on Foreign Affairs 5. A Leadership Divided: Who Are the Cold War Internationalists, Post-Cold War Internationalists, and Semi-Isolationists? 6. End of the ‘Vietnam Syndrome’?: Continuity and Change in American Leadership Beliefs, 1976–1980 7. Consensus Lost? Consensus Regained? 8. Conclusion: Prospects for Consensus in the 1980s