The American foreign policy tradition. -- The kaleidoscope of American foreign policy. -- Changing the paradigms. -- The serpent and the dove: the Hamiltonian way. -- The Connecticut Yankee in the court of King Arthur: Wilsonianism and its mission. -- "Vindicator only of her own": the Jeffersonian tradition. -- Tiger, tiger, burning bright: the school of Andrew Jackson. -- The rise and retreat of the new world order. -- The future of American foreign policy.