| Precis | 第1-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-14页 |
| 1．1 Some key concepts | 第9-11页 |
| 1．2 Historical background | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter Two Cases of U．S． Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era | 第14-29页 |
| 2．1 Intervention in the Persian Gulf | 第14-19页 |
| 2．1．1 The Persian Gulf War | 第14-17页 |
| 2．1．2 Aftermath of the Gulf War | 第17-19页 |
| 2．2 Intervention in Bosnia | 第19-22页 |
| 2．3 Operation Restore Hope in Somalia | 第22-24页 |
| 2．4 Restoring democracy in Haiti | 第24-26页 |
| 2．5 Operation Allied Forces in Kosovo | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Three Continuity | 第29-50页 |
| 3．1 The underlying motive | 第29-34页 |
| 3．1．1 To maintain its credibility | 第29-31页 |
| 3．1．2 To prevent the rise of new regional hegemons | 第31-34页 |
| 3．2 Claimed official justifications | 第34-38页 |
| 3．2．1 Justifications for intervention in the Persian Gulf | 第35-36页 |
| 3．2．2 Justifications for intervention in Haiti and Somalia | 第36页 |
| 3．2．3 Justifications for intervention in the former Yugoslavia | 第36-38页 |
| 3．3 Limitedness | 第38-44页 |
| 3．3．1 Limited resources | 第39-41页 |
| 3．3．2 Limited goals | 第41-44页 |
| 3．4 A reliance on high technology and preference of air strikes | 第44-50页 |
| 3．4．1 A reliance on high technology | 第45-47页 |
| 3．4．2 A preference of air strikes to ground fighting | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter Four Change | 第50-63页 |
| 4．1 Claimed humanitarian reason: from partial to ”pure” | 第50-53页 |
| 4．1．1 Intervention for mixed reasons | 第50-51页 |
| 4．1．2 Intervention for ”purely” humanitarian reason | 第51-52页 |
| 4．1．3 New Interventionism----the Clinton Doctrine | 第52-53页 |
| 4．2 Double standard: from decisive intervention to deliberate inaction | 第53-56页 |
| 4．3 Style: from under UN auspices to without UN authorization | 第56-59页 |
| 4．3．1 Intervention under UN auspices | 第57页 |
| 4．3．2 Intervention without UN authorization | 第57-59页 |
| 4．4 Media impact: wavering between cheerleading and opposition-actuating | 第59-63页 |
| 4．4．1 Cheerleading | 第59-60页 |
| 4．4．2 Opposition-actuating | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter Five Rationale for Continuity and Change | 第63-78页 |
| 5．1 Hegemonism （A strategy of preponderance） | 第63-65页 |
| 5．2 Rationale for continuity | 第65-67页 |
| 5．2．1 To seek hegemony | 第65-66页 |
| 5．2．2 Appeals to moral principles | 第66页 |
| 5．2．3 To lead on the cheap | 第66-67页 |
| 5．3 Rationale for change | 第67-78页 |
| 5．3．1 Reassuring others of the purity of its intention | 第67-68页 |
| 5．3．2 Different responses to different challenges | 第68-71页 |
| 5．3．3 Open-end pursuit of hegemony | 第71-75页 |
| 5．3．4 Explanation for wavering media impacts | 第75-78页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第78-83页 |
| 6．1 Hegemonic intervention | 第78-79页 |
| 6．2 Possible future of U．S． military intervention | 第79-80页 |
| 6．3 Possible impact on China and what to do in response | 第80-83页 |
| Bibliography | 第83-89页 |
