Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-167) and index.

History and identity in US foreign policy -- Victory and identity : the end of the Cold War in American imagination / Roger Johnson -- Cosmopolitanism or nativism? : US national identity and foreign policy in the twenty-first century / Carl Pedersen -- Motivations, identity and ideology in US foreign policy -- A neo-conservative-dominated US foreign policy establishment? / Inderjeet Parmar -- Patriotism, national identity, and foreign policy : the US-Israeli alliance in the twenty-first century / Caitlin Stewart -- The complex fate of being America : the constitution of identity and the politics of security / Ed Lock -- The consequences : the reluctant empire? -- Republic, empire or good international citizen? : international law and American identity / Jason G. Ralph -- The Greeks of old : modelling the British Empire for a twenty-first century America / Binoy Kampmark -- Empire as a way of life? : a search for historical alternatives / Jonathan M. Hansen.