CONTENTS

                 Preface to the Paperback Edition

Introduction Pariahs to Partners: Bringing Rogues to the Table

Chapter 1 From Machiavelli to Muammar

Chapter 2 Great Satan vs. Mad Mullahs

Chapter 3 Team America and the Hermit Kingdom

Chapter 4 Lying Down with Libyans

Chapter 5 Tea with the Taliban

Chapter 6 Double Dealing in the Land of the Pure

Chapter 7 Sitting with Saddam

Chapter 8 Hijackers into Peacemakers

Chapter 9 Is It Time to Talk to Terrorists?

Chapter 10 Playing Poker with Pariahs

Chapter 11 Corrupting Intelligence or Corrupted Intelligence?

Chapter 12 Blessed Are the Peacemakers?

Conclusion Is Talking the Shortest Path to War?

                 Acknowledgments

                 Notes

                 Index