The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars

Table of Contents

• Introduction:
• 1. Old wars and future wars: causation and prevention Joseph S. Nye, Jr
• Part I. The Origins of War: Structural Theories:
• 2. The theory of hegemonic war Robert Gilpin
• 3. The origins of war in neorealist theory Kenneth N. Waltz
• 4. The contribution of expected utility theory to the study of international conflict Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
• Part II. The Origins of War: Explanation of Non-rational Causality:
• 5. Domestic politics and war Jack S. Levy
• 6. War and misperception Robert Jervis
• 7. Crises and the unexpected George H. Quester
• Part III. Lessons and Analogies from Early Major Wars:
• 8. Ideology and conflict: the wars of the Ottoman Empire 1453–1606 John F. Guilmartin, Jr
• 9. The origins of the thirty years' war Myron P. Gutmann
• 10. The origins, causes and extension of the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon Gunther E. Rothenberg
• Part IV. Lessons and Analogies from the World Wars:
• 11. The origins of World War I Samuel R. Williamson, Jr
• 12. Wargames:
• 1914–1919 Charles S. Maier
• 13. The Origins of World War II in Europe: British deterrence failure and German expansionism Jeffrey L. Hughes
• 14. The origins of the Pacific War Scott D. Sagan.
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