“It is ironic that the government of the most successful open society in the world should have falien into the hands of ideologues who ignore the first principles of opensociety．Who would have thought…that the United States itself could pose a threat to open society?Yet that is what is happening．both internally and internationally．At home． Attorney General John Ashcroft has used the war on terrorism to curtail civil liberties．Abroad．the United States is trying to impose its views and interests on the rest of the world by the use of military force and it has proclaimed its right to do so in the Bush doctrine…

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I：A Critical VieW

 1．The Bush Doctrine

 2．The War on Terror

 3．The Bush Administration's Foreign Policy

 4．The Iraqi Quagmire

 5．The State of the Union

Part II：A Constructive Vision

 6．Improving the World Order

 7．Sovereignty and Intervention

 8．International Assistance

 9．People's Sovereignty and Natural Resources

 10．Historical Perspective

 11．The Bubble of American Supremacy

Epilogue

Appendix：My Conceptual Framework

Index