Part I. The Wohlstetters' cold world
The Wohlstetter partnership: the early years
Roberta Wohlstetter: the uncertainties of surprise
"In dubious battle" : the Rand years
He is but mad North-North-west": Albert and his critics
Castrophobia and the free market: the Wohlstetters' moral economy
Discriminate interventionism: the Wohlstetters in a multipolar world
Slow Pearl Harbors: fear and loathing of Glasnost
"Do not go gentle into that good night": Albert Wohlstetter after the Cold War
Part II. The Wohlstetter legacy in the post-Cold War era
Paul Wolfowitz: Fin de Siècle all over again
Zalmay Khalilzad: the Orientalist
Richard Perle: prejudice as a cultural weapon
Epilogue: the Hamlet of nations?.