Introduction: Seeking Strategic Empathy
1. The Conscience of an Empire: Gandhi and the British Character
2. Arming Your Enemy: Stresemann’s Maneuver, Act I
3. Steady on the Tightrope: Stresemann’s Maneuver, Act II
4. Stalin the Simulator: The Problem of Projected Rationality
5. A Rendezvous With Evil: How Roosevelt Read Hitler
6. Hanoi’s New Foe: Le Duan Prepares for America
7. Counting Bodies: The Benefits of Escalation
8. The Continuity Conundrum: When the Past Misleads
9. Number Worship: The Quant’s Prediction Problem
Afterword: Fitting In: Some Thoughts on Scholarship, Sources, and Methods