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Foreword | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics? | p. 1 |
What is International Politics? | p. 2 |
Differing Views of Anarchic Politics | p. 4 |
Building Blocks | p. 9 |
The Peloponnesian War | p. 13 |
A Short Version of a Long Story | p. 13 |
Causes and Theories | p. 16 |
Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future | p. 18 |
Ethical Questions and International Politics | p. 21 |
Limits on Ethics in International Relations | p. 22 |
Three Views of the Role of Morality | p. 24 |
Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars | p. 30 |
Explaining Conflict and Cooperation: Tools and Techniques of the Trade | p. 33 |
Key Concepts | p. 33 |
States, Nations, and Nation-States | p. 34 |
International Actors, Power, and Authority | p. 37 |
International System and International Society | p. 42 |
System Stability and Crisis Stability | p. 44 |
The "National Interest" | p. 45 |
Levels of Analysis | p. 46 |
The Individual Level | p. 48 |
The State Level | p. 51 |
The System Level | p. 53 |
Paradigms and Theories | p. 55 |
Realism | p. 56 |
Liberalism | p. 58 |
Constructivism | p. 63 |
Marxism | p. 64 |
Counterfactuals and 'Virtual History' | p. 65 |
Plausibility | p. 66 |
Proximity in Time | p. 66 |
Relation to Theory | p. 66 |
Facts | p. 67 |
From Westphalia to World War I | p. 71 |
Managing Great Power Conflict: Balance and Concert | p. 74 |
Balances as Distributions of Power | p. 75 |
Balance of Power as Policy | p. 76 |
Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems | p. 78 |
Alliances | p. 80 |
The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth-Century System | p. 81 |
Chronologies: Europe | p. 84 |
The Origins of World War I | p. 86 |
Three Levels of Analysis | p. 87 |
Was War Inevitable? | p. 92 |
What Kind of War? | p. 95 |
The Funnel of Choices | p. 98 |
Lessons of History Again | p. 99 |
Chronology: The Road To World War I | p. 100 |
The Failure of Collective Security and World War II | p. 103 |
The Rise and Fall of Collective Security | p. 103 |
The League of Nations | p. 104 |
The United States and the League of Nations | p. 106 |
The Early Days of the League | p. 107 |
The Manchurian Failure | p. 110 |
The Ethiopian Debacle | p. 111 |
The Origins of World War II | p. 112 |
Hitler's War? | p. 112 |
Hitler's Strategy | p. 114 |
The Role of the Individual | p. 118 |
Systemic and Domestic Causes | p. 119 |
Was War Inevitable? | p. 120 |
The Pacific War | p. 122 |
Appeasement and Two Types of War | p. 126 |
Chronology: Between The World Wars | p. 128 |
The Cold War | p. 132 |
Deterrence and Containment | p. 133 |
Three Approaches to the Cold War | p. 134 |
Roosevelt's Policies | p. 136 |
Stalin's Policies | p. 137 |
Phases of the Conflict | p. 138 |
Inevitability? | p. 144 |
Levels of Analysis | p. 145 |
U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War | p. 147 |
Containment | p. 148 |
The Vietnam War | p. 149 |
Motives, Means, and Consequences | p. 150 |
Chronology: American Involvement in Vietnam (1954-1975) | p. 151 |
The Rest of the Cold War | p. 155 |
The End of the Cold War | p. 156 |
The Role of Nuclear Weapons | p. 161 |
Physics and Politics | p. 161 |
Balance of Terror | p. 165 |
Problems of Nuclear Deterrence | p. 166 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 168 |
Moral Issues | p. 170 |
Chronology: The Cold War Years | p. 173 |
Post-Cold War Conflict and Cooperation | p. 181 |
Managing Conflict | p. 181 |
International Law and Organization | p. 184 |
Domestic Analogies | p. 185 |
Predictability and Legitimacy | p. 187 |
The United Nations: Collective Security and Peacekeeping | p. 188 |
Intrastate Conflict | p. 194 |
Intervention and Sovereignty | p. 196 |
Defining Intervention | p. 197 |
Judging Intervention | p. 199 |
Exceptions to the Rule of Nonintervention | p. 200 |
Problems of Self-Determination | p. 201 |
Genocide and the "Responsibility to Protect" | p. 203 |
Interstate Conflict | p. 205 |
The Middle East | p. 206 |
Arab-Israeli Conflict | p. 209 |
Conflicts in the Persian Gulf, 1991 and 2003 | p. 217 |
Chronology: Conflict In The Middle East | p. 222 |
A Nuclear Iran? | p. 225 |
Chronology: Iran's Nuclear Program | p. 226 |
India and Pakistan | p. 228 |
Chronology: The Kashmir Conflict | p. 230 |
The Taiwan Strait | p. 231 |
Chronology: The Taiwan Strait | p. 232 |
North Korea | p. 233 |
Chronology: North Korea | p. 235 |
Globalization and Interdependence | p. 239 |
The Dimensions of Globalization | p. 240 |
What's New about Twenty-First-Century Globalization? | p. 242 |
Political Reactions to Globalization | p. 244 |
Power and Globalization | p. 245 |
The Concept of Interdependence | p. 245 |
Sources of Interdependence | p. 246 |
Benefits of Interdependence | p. 247 |
Costs of Interdependence | p. 249 |
Symmetry of Interdependence | p. 251 |
Leadership and Institutions in the World Economy | p. 253 |
Realism and Complex Interdependence | p. 257 |
The Politics of Oil | p. 259 |
Oil as a Power Resource | p. 263 |
The Information Revolution and Transnational Actors | p. 268 |
Power and the Information Revolution | p. 268 |
Lessons from the Past | p. 269 |
A New World Politics? | p. 272 |
Sovereignty and Control | p. 277 |
Transnational Actors | p. 280 |
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) | p. 283 |
The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence | p. 286 |
Transnational Terrorism and the "War on Terror" | p. 289 |
Conclusions | p. 292 |
What Can We Expect in the Future? | p. 296 |
Alternative Visions | p. 296 |
The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations? | p. 301 |
Technology and the Diffusion of Power | p. 303 |
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction | p. 305 |
Transnational Challenges to Security | p. 307 |
A New World Order? | p. 316 |
Future Configurations of Power | p. 317 |
The Prison of Old Concepts | p. 320 |
The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order | p. 321 |
Thinking About the Future | p. 324 |
Glossary | p. 327 |
Credits | p. 331 |
Index | p. 332 |
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