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Domestic structure and foreign policy. The role of domestic structure ; The impact of the administrative structure ; The nature of leadership ; Domestic structure and foreign policy: the prospects for world order -- Central issues of American foreign policy. The structural problem ; The limits of bipolarity: the nature of power in the modern period ; Political multipolarity: the changed nature of alliances ; Bipolarity and multipolarity: the conceptual problem ; An inquiry into the American national interest -- The Vietnam negotiations. The situation within South Vietnam prior to negotiations ; The environment of negotiations ; Commitment and risk in Vietnam diplomacy: the problem of the bombing halt ; Ceasefire and coalition government ; Where do we go from here?

Outlines the author's views of the international political structure. It is composed of essays on diplomacy and several speeches he made during his political career.