From the Book - First edition.
Introduction : does history make statesmen or do statesmen make history?
Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, and the U.S.-China opening, 1971-1972
Mikhail Gorbachev : ending the Cold War, 1985-1991
Wilson and FDR : failure of the League of Nations, birth of the United Nations
UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskj©ıld : the "secular pope," 1953-1961
Nelson Mandela : iconic statesman of reconciliation, 1989-1999
Yitzhak Rabin : soldier as peacemaker, 1992-1995
Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams : Northern Ireland women for peace, 1972-1977
Gandhi : exemplar of anticolonialism, apostle of nonviolence, 1914-1948
Lech Walesa : from communism to democracy, 1980-1990
Aung San Suu Kyi : a cautionary tale, 1988-
Peter Benenson, Amnesty International and the global human rights movement, 1961-1967
Gro Harlem Brundtland : our common future, 1987-2003
Gates Foundation and global health philanthropy statesmanship, 2000-
Epilogue : twenty-first-century statesmanship : difficult, possible, necessary.