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Tables of Contents for Understanding International Conflicts
Chapter/Section Title
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Preface
xiii
CHAPTER 1 IS THERE AN ENDURING LOGIC OF CONFLICT IN WORLD POLITICS?
1
25
Two Theoretical Traditions: Realism and Liberalism
1
7
What Is International Politics?
2
1
Two Views of Anarchic Politics
3
3
Building Blocks
6
2
The Peloponnesian War
8
8
A Short Version of a Long Story
8
3
Causes and Theories
11
3
Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future
14
2
Ethical Questions and International Politics
16
8
Limits on Ethics in International Relations
17
2
Three Views of the Role of Morality
19
5
Notes
24
1
Selected Readings
24
1
Further Readings
25
1
Study Questions
25
1
CHAPTER 2 ORIGINS OF THE GREAT TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONFLICTS
26
23
International Systems and Levels of Causation
26
16
Levels of Analysis
27
2
Systems: Structure and Process
29
2
Revolutionary and Moderate Goals and Instruments
31
1
The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth-Century System
32
2
A Modern Sequel
34
1
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
35
1
Neoliberalism
36
3
Liberal Democracy and War
39
1
Definition of National Interests
40
1
Variations in Foreign Policies
41
1
Counterfactuals
42
3
Plausibility
43
1
Proximity in Time
43
1
Relation to Theory
44
1
Fact
44
1
Notes
45
1
Selected Readings
45
1
Further Readings
46
1
Study Questions
46
1
Chronologies: Europe
47
2
CHAPTER 3 BALANCE OF POWER AND WORLD WAR I
49
25
Balance of Power
49
9
Power
50
3
Balances As Distributions of Power
53
1
Balance of Power As Policy
54
2
Balance of Power As Multipolar Systems
56
2
The Origins of World War I
58
12
Three Levels of Analysis
59
5
Was War Inevitable?
64
3
What Kind of War?
67
1
The Funnel of Choices
68
1
Lessons of History Again
69
1
Notes
70
1
Selected Readings
71
1
Further Readings
71
1
Study Questions
72
1
Chronology: The Road to World War I
72
2
CHAPTER 4 THE FAILURE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND WORLD WAR II
74
24
The Rise and Fall of Collective Security
74
8
The League of Nations
75
1
The United States and the League of Nations
76
1
The Early Days of the League
77
2
The Manchurian Failure
79
1
The Ethiopian Debacle
80
2
The Origins of World War II
82
12
Hitler's War?
82
1
Hitler's Strategy
83
4
The Role of the Individual
87
1
Systemic and Domestic Causes
87
2
Was War Inevitable?
89
2
The Pacific War
91
2
Appeasement and Two Types of War
93
1
Notes
94
1
Selected Readings
95
1
Further Readings
95
1
Study Questions
96
1
Chronology: Between the World Wars
96
2
CHAPTER 5 THE COLD WAR
98
34
Three Approaches to the Cold War
98
3
Roosevelt's Policies
101
1
Stalin's Policies
102
1
Phases of the Conflict
103
5
Inevitability?
108
2
Levels of Analysis
110
2
U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War
112
1
Containment
113
1
The Rest of the Cold War
114
2
The End of the Cold War
116
3
The Role of Nuclear Weapons
119
9
Physics and Politics
119
3
Balance of Terror
122
1
Problems of Nuclear Deterrence
123
2
The Cuban Missile Crisis
125
2
Moral Issues
127
1
Notes
128
1
Selected Readings
128
1
Further Readings
129
1
Study Questions
129
1
Chronology: The Deep Cold War Years
130
2
CHAPTER 6 INTERVENTION, INSTITUTIONS, AND REGIONAL CONFLICTS
132
28
Sovereignty and Intervention
132
7
Defining Intervention
132
2
Sovereignty
134
1
Judging Intervention
134
1
Exceptions to the Rule
135
1
Self-Determination
136
1
Motives, Means, and Consequences
137
2
International Law and Organization
139
8
Domestic Analogies
139
2
Predictability and Legitimacy
141
1
The Suez Canal
142
3
UN Peacekeeping and Collective Security
145
2
Conflicts in the Middle East
147
9
The Questions of Nationalism
148
2
The Arab-Israeli Conflicts
150
4
The 1991 Gulf War
154
2
Notes
156
1
Selected Readings
156
1
Further Readings
156
1
Study Questions
157
1
Chronology: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
157
3
CHAPTER 7 INTERDEPENDENCE AND POWER
160
20
The Concept of Interdependence
161
9
Sources of Interdependence
161
1
Benefits of Interdependence
162
2
Costs of Interdependence
164
2
Symmetry of Interdependence
166
2
Leadership in the World Economy
168
1
Realism and Complex Interdependence
169
1
The Transnational Politics of Oil
170
4
Oil As a Power Resource
173
1
Transnational Actors
174
3
Notes
177
1
Selected Readings
178
1
Further Readings
178
1
Study Questions
179
1
CHAPTER 8 A NEW WORLD ORDER?
180
19
Alternative Designs for the Future
180
4
The Nation-State and the Future of International Conflicts
184
1
Nationalism and Transnationalism
184
5
The End of History?
184
2
Transnationalism
186
1
Proliferation
187
2
A New World Order?
189
5
Two Concepts of Order
190
1
Future Configurations of Power
190
2
The Prison of Old Concepts
192
1
The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order
193
1
Thinking About the Future
194
1
Selected Readings
195
1
Further Readings
196
1
Study Questions
196
3
Credits
199
2
Index
201