Introduction / Michael J. Hogan -- "The American Century" / Henry R. Luce -- 1. Making the World Safe for Democracy in the American Century / Tony Smith -- 2. "Empire by Invitation" in the American Century / Geir Lundestad -- 3. America and the Twentieth Century: Continuity and Change / Robert Jervis -- 4. The Idea of the National Interest / H. W. Brands -- 5. The Tension between Democracy and Capitalism during the American Century / Walter LaFeber -- 6. The American Century: From Sarajevo to Sarajevo / Joan Hoff -- 7. East Asia in Henry Luce's "American Century" / Michael H. Hunt -- 8. The American Century and the Third World / Bruce Cumings -- 9. Race from Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and the General Crisis of "White Supremacy" / Gerald Horne -- 10. Immigrants and Frontiersmen: Two Traditions in American Foreign Policy / Godfrey Hodgson -- 11. Partisan Politics and Foreign Policy in the American Century / Michael J. Hogan
12. Philanthropy and Diplomacy in the American Century / Volker R. Berghahn -- 13. A Century of NGOs / Akira Iriye -- 14. Consuming Women: Images of Americanization in the "American Century" / Emily S. Rosenberg -- 15. The Empire of the Fun, or Talkin' Soviet Union Blues: The Sound of Freedom and U.S. Cultural Hegemony in Europe / Reinhold Wagnleitner -- 16. American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End / Rob Kroes