Foreword, John J. Hamre Introduction, Michael J. Green Chapter 1: Lifting the Burdens of the Past: How Three Mid-Twentieth Century Presidents Transformed the United States, William Inboden Chapter 2: Japan in the Global History of the Twentieth Century: A Path to "Proactive Contribution to Peace," Shinichi Kitaoka and Yuichi Hosoya Chapter 3: The Turkish Experience of the Twentieth Century, Cemil Aydin Chapter 4: China's "Prolonged Rise": A Twentieth Century Tale and its Twenty-First Century Implications, Chen Jian Chapter 5: The Transformation of India in the Twentieth Century, Srinath Raghavan Chapter 6: Germany's Trajectory in the Twentieth Century: Global Perspectives, Sebastian Conrad About the Editors and Contributors Index