Colonial policies and their payoffs -- Divided nations and partitioned countries -- Cognitive closure and crisis politics -- Beyond deterrence -- Nuclear deterrence in retrospect -- Beyond parsimony : rethinking theories of coercive bargaining -- Thomas Schelling and strategic bargaining -- Robert McNamara : Max Weber's worst nightmare -- Reason, emotion, and cooperation -- Building international cooperation -- Thucydides the constructivist -- Power, persuasion, and justice -- Tragedy, politics, and political science -- The future of international relations theory.