Foreword / by Kofi Annan -- Introduction -- Early warnings -- A telling phone call from Condi -- A war with multilateral support -- One, two, three Iraqs : the costs of the unilateralist doctrine -- War games in the United Nations : a tale of missed opportunities -- Resolution to act -- A tug of war -- The Blair-Lagos last-ditch effort -- The final diplomatic bets -- High noon in Iraq : diplomacy fails -- Unilateralism in retreat : the hard task of winning the peace in Iraq -- Multilateralism under fire -- The war deepens : the UN is a target -- A turn toward tactical multilateralism -- Why multilateralism matters : the United Nations enables the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 elections -- A sense of loss of direction and moral defeat -- Negotiating the establishment of the Iraqi interim government -- The end of occupation? -- The 2005 elections and the Nouri al-Maliki government -- Worlds apart : the alienation of allies -- Chile : the distant neighbor -- Mexico : "so far from God, so close to the United States" -- The transatlantic divide with the "old Europe" -- Less-than-willing allies and the failed evidence to go to war -- Conclusions : the U.S war backtrack and the future of multilateralism -- The costs of a war without friends -- A changing attitude toward the United Nations -- Why the United States should care about multilateralism -- Beyond Iraq : to lead or to impose.