Introduction --Theoretical frameowrk -- Operationalising liberal predictions -- Chapter structure -- Reassessing the logic of anarchy : rationality versus reflexivity -- The neorealist model -- The institutionalist model -- The liberal model -- Towards a general synthesis -- Conclusions -- German foreign policy after the Cold War -- Neorealism -- Institutionalism -- Liberalism 1 : domestic variation -- Liberalism 2 : Germany's choices -- Japanese foreign policy after the Cold War -- Neorealism -- Institutionalism -- Liberalism 1 : domestic variation -- Liberalism 2 : Japan's choices -- Chinese foreign policy after the Cold War -- Neorealism -- Institutionalism -- Liberalism 1 : domestic variation -- Liberalism 2 : China's choices -- Conclusions -- International relations theory after the Cold War -- General patterns of institutionalised activity -- Foreign policy adjustments.