Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order, 1648–1989

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
List of figures......Page 12
List of tables......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
1 - ON THE STUDY OF WAR......Page 19
Explanatory configurations......Page 21
The promises and pitfalls of ecological variables......Page 24
The meanings of war......Page 27
What men fight about: issues and international conflict......Page 30
A map of a map......Page 34
Defining issues......Page 35
Data sources: geographical and temporal domains......Page 38
Issues, war, and peace: creating international orders......Page 39
2 - MÜNSTER AND OSNABRÜCK, 1648: PEACE BY PIECES......Page 43
The Thirty Years War......Page 44
Planning for peace......Page 47
Negotiations at Münster and Osnabrück......Page 50
Outcomes......Page 52
A new order for Europe?......Page 55
3 - WAR AND PEACE IN THE ERA OF THE HEROIC WARRIORS, 1648--1713......Page 61
Issues that generated wars......Page 64
Attitudes to war......Page 81
4 - ACT TWO OF THE HEGEMONY DRAMA: THE UTRECHT SETTLEMENTS......Page 89
The British \"Plan\"......Page 91
Outcomes......Page 94
Analysis......Page 97
5 - THE LETHAL MINUET: WAR AND PEACE AMONG THE PRINCES OF CHRISTENDOM, 1715--1814......Page 101
Isssues that generated wars......Page 105
War in the post-Utrecht international system......Page 120
The meaning of war......Page 123
The problem of peace......Page 129
6 - PEACE THROUGH EQUILIBRIUM: THE SETTLEMENTS OF 1814--1815......Page 132
Diagnoses......Page 134
Solutions......Page 137
Forging the settlement......Page 145
Allied unity unraveled: defining threats to peace......Page 148
Assessment......Page 150
7 - CONFLICT AND CONSENT, 1815--1914......Page 156
War and intervention in Concert Europe......Page 157
New war-generating issues......Page 163
Old and declining issues......Page 168
The character of war preparation......Page 174
The meaning of war......Page 176
The problem of peace......Page 182
Nation-state creation and system breakdown......Page 187
8 - 1919: PEACE THROUGH DEMOCRACY AND COVENANT......Page 193
Woodrow Wilson: the moral--political universe......Page 199
Replacing the old with the new: the moral and political foundations of enduring peace......Page 202
The political foundations of the new international order: democracy, covenants, and arms control......Page 203
Peace through a preponderance of power: Clemenceau......Page 207
Peace through conflict resolution mechanisms: the British contribution......Page 212
Paris 1919: the importance of preliminaries and procedures......Page 214
The drama of the League of Nations Commission......Page 217
The German settlement......Page 223
Evaluation......Page 226
9 - WAR AS THE AFTERMATH OF PEACE: INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT, 1918--1941......Page 231
Issues that generated wars, 1918--1941......Page 235
Attitudes toward war......Page 246
10 - PEACE BY POLICING......Page 261
Wilson revisited and revised: the United States......Page 263
Balance of power: Great Britain and the postwar order......Page 269
Security through expansion: Stalin and the postwar order......Page 272
Changing American conceptions of international security......Page 282
Dealing with issues: past and future in international organization......Page 285
11 - THE DIVERSIFICATION OF WARFARE: ISSUES AND ATTITUDES IN THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM......Page 289
The issues......Page 302
Attitudes toward war......Page 303
12 - WAR: ISSUES, ATTITUDES, AND EXPLANATIONS......Page 324
Territory......Page 325
Ideology and war......Page 329
Economics and war......Page 332
Human sympathy: ethnicity, religion, and war......Page 335
Predation and survival......Page 336
Remaining issues......Page 337
Issues of the future......Page 342
Attitudes and war......Page 343
Issues, war, and international theory......Page 346
13 - THE PEACEMAKERS: ISSUES AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER......Page 353
The prerequisites for peace......Page 354
Peacemaking and international order: a comparison......Page 358
The peacemakers: theories of peace......Page 366
References......Page 372
Additional data sources......Page 386
Index......Page 389