Foreignpolicy on the offensive / Chris J. Dolan -- The ascendancy of vice president Dick Cheney / Jack Lechelt -- The roots of the Washington threat consensus / Jacques E.C. Hymans -- Can tyrants be deterred? / Betty Glad -- The United States and Iraq : American bull in a Middle East China shop / Clement M. Henry -- Counterterrorism and the perils of preemption problems of command and control / David Tucker -- Organizing for homeland security in post-9/11 America / David B. Cohen and Alethia Cook -- The political and legal status of persons in the war on terrorism / Drew Noble Lanier -- Expansion of the president's war power / Louis Fisher -- George W. Bush and presidential leadership : the un-hidden hand presidency of George W. Bush / Michael Genovese -- Americanpublicopinion on foreignpolicy, pre- and post-September 11 / OleR. Holsti -- The UN and the legal status of preemptive and preventive war / Roger Coate -- Transatlantic relations at the turn of the 21st century / Donald J. Puchala -- The prospects for American hegemony / Robert Jervis -- The limits of empire / Betty Glad.