This volume contains some of Louis Halle's most memorable historical and political essays. Contents: On Push-Button War, The Berlin Wall, Mr. Spaak and the Doctrine of Collective Guilt, On a Certain Impatience with Latin America, The Davies Case, Goodness is Not Enough, The Making of Foreign Policy in a Democracy, The Evolution of World Politics, On Understanding Politics, Argentina and the Formulation of American Foreign Policy, Explaining Vietnam, Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process: The American Experience, The Concept of Sovereign Equality, R. W. Livingstone and the Nature of History, Herbert Butterfield: The Historian as Philosopher, De Gaulle and the Politics of Bismarck, The Conceptual Roots of War and Genocide, Lessons of the Nuclear Age, A Hopeful Future for Humankind, The World of George Kennan, The Identification of the Enemy, Does War Have a Future?