1. Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman, “Introduction,” in Campbell and Rockman, eds., The Clinton Legacy (New York: Chatham House, 2000), ix-xviii, ix.
2. Ibid., emphasis in the original. For some interesting observations on the concept of political legacy, see Terrence Casey, “Introduction: How to Assess the Blair Legacy?” in Casey, ed., The Blair Legacy: Politics, Policy, Governance, and Foreign Affairs (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 1–19.
3. H. W. Brands, From Berlin to Baghdad: America’s Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 301.
4. Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, America between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), 318, 325.
5. See, in particular, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (London: Allen Lane, 2007).