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Foreword | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Resources | p. xvii |
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. 23 |
Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars | p. 29 |
Study Questions | p. 30 |
Selected Readings | p. 30 |
Further Readings | p. 30 |
Notes | p. 32 |
Origins of the Great Twentieth-Century Conflicts | p. 34 |
International Systems and Levels of Causation | p. 34 |
Levels of Analysis | p. 36 |
Systems: Structure and Process | p. 38 |
Revolutionary and Moderate Goals and Instruments | p. 39 |
The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth-Century System | p. 41 |
A Modern Sequel | p. 43 |
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy | p. 44 |
Liberalism Revived | p. 46 |
Liberal Democracy and War | p. 48 |
Defining National Interests | p. 50 |
Variations in Foreign Policies | p. 51 |
Counterfactuals | p. 52 |
Plausibility | p. 53 |
Proximity in Time | p. 53 |
Relation to Theory | p. 54 |
Facts | p. 54 |
Chronologies: Europe | p. 55 |
Study Questions | p. 57 |
Selected Readings | p. 57 |
Further Readings | p. 58 |
Notes | p. 59 |
Balance of Power and World War I | p. 60 |
Balance of Power | p. 60 |
Power | p. 61 |
Balances as Distributions of Power | p. 65 |
Balance of Power as Policy | p. 66 |
Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems | p. 68 |
Alliances | p. 70 |
The Origins of World War I | p. 71 |
Three Levels of Analysis | p. 71 |
Was War Inevitable? | p. 77 |
What Kind of War? | p. 80 |
The Funnel of Choices | p. 82 |
Lessons of History Again | p. 83 |
Chronology: The Road to World War I | p. 84 |
Study Questions | p. 85 |
Selected Readings | p. 85 |
Further Readings | p. 85 |
Notes | p. 87 |
The Failure of Collective Security and World War II | p. 88 |
The Rise and Fall of Collective Security | p. 88 |
The League of Nations | p. 89 |
The United States and the League of Nations | p. 91 |
The Early Days of the League | p. 92 |
The Manchurian Failure | p. 95 |
The Ethiopian Debacle | p. 96 |
The Origins of World War II | p. 97 |
Hitler's War? | p. 97 |
Hitler's Strategy | p. 99 |
The Role of the Individual | p. 103 |
Systemic and Domestic Causes | p. 104 |
Was War Inevitable? | p. 105 |
The Pacific War | p. 107 |
Appeasement and Two Types of War | p. 111 |
Chronology: Between the World Wars | p. 112 |
Study Questions | p. 113 |
Selected Readings | p. 114 |
Further Readings | p. 114 |
Notes | p. 115 |
The Cold War | p. 116 |
Deterrence and Containment | p. 117 |
Three Approaches to the Cold War | p. 118 |
Roosevelt's Policies | p. 120 |
Stalin's Policies | p. 121 |
Phases of the Conflict | p. 122 |
Inevitability? | p. 128 |
Levels of Analysis | p. 129 |
U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War | p. 131 |
Containment | p. 132 |
The Vietnam War | p. 133 |
Motives, Means, and Consequences | p. 134 |
Chronology: American Involvement in Vietnam (1954-1975) | p. 135 |
The Rest of the Cold War | p. 138 |
The End of the Cold War | p. 140 |
The Role of Nuclear Weapons | p. 145 |
Physics and Politics | p. 145 |
Balance of Terror | p. 148 |
Problems of Nuclear Deterrence | p. 149 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 151 |
Moral Issues | p. 153 |
Chronology: The Cold War Years | p. 156 |
Study Questions | p. 160 |
Selected Readings | p. 161 |
Further Readings | p. 161 |
Notes | p. 162 |
Conflicts after the Cold War - Interventions and Institutions | p. 163 |
Ethnic Conflicts | p. 164 |
Intervention and Sovereignty | p. 166 |
Defining Intervention | p. 166 |
Sovereignty | p. 168 |
Judging Intervention | p. 169 |
Exceptions to the Rule | p. 170 |
Problems of Self-Determination | p. 171 |
International Law and Organization | p. 173 |
Domestic Analogies | p. 173 |
Predictability and Legitimacy | p. 175 |
United Nations: Collective Security and Peacekeeping | p. 176 |
Conflicts in the Middle East | p. 182 |
The Questions of Nationalism | p. 183 |
The Arab-Israeli Conflicts | p. 185 |
The Conflicts in the Persian Gulf of 1991 and 2003 | p. 192 |
Chronology: The Arab-Israeli Conflict | p. 196 |
Study Questions | p. 199 |
Selected Readings | p. 199 |
Further Readings | p. 200 |
Notes | p. 201 |
Globalization and Interdependence | p. 202 |
The Dimensions of Globalization | p. 203 |
What's New about Twenty-First-Century Globalization? | p. 205 |
Political Reactions to Globalization | p. 207 |
Power and Interdependence | p. 208 |
The Concept of Interdependence | p. 208 |
Sources of Interdependence | p. 209 |
Benefits of Interdependence | p. 210 |
Costs of Interdependence | p. 211 |
Symmetry of Interdependence | p. 213 |
Leadership and Institutions in the World Economy | p. 216 |
Realism and Complex Interdependence | p. 220 |
The Politics of Oil | p. 221 |
Oil as a Power Resource | p. 225 |
Study Questions | p. 226 |
Selected Readings | p. 227 |
Further Readings | p. 227 |
Notes | p. 229 |
Information Revolution and Transnational Actors | p. 231 |
Power and the Information Revolution | p. 231 |
Lessons from the Past | p. 231 |
A New World Politics? | p. 235 |
Sovereignty and Control | p. 239 |
Transnational Actors | p. 242 |
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) | p. 245 |
The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence | p. 248 |
Conclusions | p. 251 |
Study Questions | p. 252 |
Selected Readings | p. 252 |
Further Readings | p. 253 |
Notes | p. 254 |
A New World Order? | p. 256 |
Alternative Designs for the Future | p. 256 |
The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations? | p. 261 |
Technology and the Diffusion of Power | p. 263 |
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction | p. 265 |
Transnational Challenges to Security | p. 267 |
A New World Order? | p. 276 |
Future Configurations of Power | p. 277 |
The Prison of Old Concepts | p. 280 |
The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order | p. 282 |
Thinking About the Future | p. 284 |
Study Questions | p. 285 |
Selected Readings | p. 286 |
Further Readings | p. 286 |
Notes | p. 288 |
Glossary | p. 289 |
Credits | p. 293 |
Index | p. 295 |
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