United States policy and the Palestine problem : historical dimensions and the creation of an 'alternative narrative' / Rashid Khalidi -- The boundaries of rational calculation in Soviet policy towards Japan / Jonathan Haslam -- The Cuban Missile Crisis twenty-five years later : the learning continues / Dwain Mefford -- The Soviet General Staff : an institution's response to change / Condoleezza Rice -- British and American hegemony compared : lessons for the current era of decline / David Lake -- Being a borrower : the re-emergence of the United States as a debtor nation / Diane Kunz -- The United States and inter-war money and finance : lessons for Japan's future from America's past / Jeffrey Frieden -- The politics of empire : a theory with an application to the Soviet case / Jack Snyder -- The power of historical analogies : Soviet interventions in Eastern Europe and US interventions in Central America / Dwain Mefford -- Learning and reasoning by analogy / Alex Hybel -- Conclusion / Alan Henrikson