Book one: Twenties: The old tradition in a new era. The British Foreign Office from Gray to Austen Chamberlain / Gordon A Craig
The French Foreign Office : the era of Philippe Berthelot / Richard D. Challener
Diplomacy at Geneva. Sweden : diplomacy of Östen Undén / Erik Lonnroth
Czechoslovakia : diplomacy of Eduard Benes / Paul E. Zinner
The struggle for new position. Diplomats and diplomacy in the early Weimar Republic / Hajo Holborn
Turkish diplomacy from Mudros to Lausanne / Roderic H. Davison
The early diplomacy of Italian Fascism, 1922-1932 / H. Stuart Hughes
Soviet diplomacy : G.V. Chicherin, Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 1918-1930 / Theodore H. von Laue
On the sidelines. The Department of State and American public opinion / Dexter Perkins.
Book two: Thirties: Fighters for lost causes. Arthur Henderson / Henry R. Winkler
Maxim Litvinov / Henry L. Roberts
Alexis Saint-Léger / Elizabeth R. Cameron
The German offensive. The German foreign office from Neurath to Ribbentrop / Gordon A. Craig
Three observers in Berlin : Rumbold, Dodd, and François-Poncet / Franklin L. Ford
Two German ambassadors : Dirksen and Schulenburg / Carl E. Schorske
The twilight of diplomacy. Ciano and his ambassadors / Felix Gilbert
Two British ambassadors : Perth and Henderson / Felix Gilbert
The voice in the wilderness : Robert Coulondre / Franklin L. Ford and Carl E. Schorske
The diplomacy of Colonel Beck / Henry L. Roberts
Reactions to the collapse of the European system. Yosuke Matsuoka and the Japanese-German alliance / John Huizenga
Two American ambassadors : Bullitt and Kennedy / William W. Kaufman.