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| About the Authors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Thirty Years' War and the Genesis of the Modern International System: A Prologue to the Future | |
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| The Causes of the Thirty Years' War | |
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| The Controversial Roots of the Thirty Years' War | |
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| Faith, Fatherland, or Finance? Preconditions for War in Sixteenth-Century Europe | |
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| The Intellectual Origins of International Conflict | |
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| A Struggle between Authority and Anarchy | |
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| A War Produced by Profit and Prosperity | |
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| Politics and Religion in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
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| A War between Religious Confessions? | |
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| Military Answers to Theological and Political Questions | |
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| The Evolutionary Course of the Thirty Years' War | |
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| The 1618-1620 Bohemian Phase | |
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| The Defenestration of Prague | |
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| The Empire Strikes Back | |
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| The 1620-1624 Palatinate Phase | |
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| The 1625-1629 Danish Phase | |
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| Wallenstein's Long Shadow | |
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| The Empire's Drive for Dominion | |
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| The Edict of Restitution | |
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| Church and State Relations in the Tumult of War | |
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| The 1630-1635 Swedish Phase | |
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| Gustavus Adolphus Enters the War | |
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| Cardinal Richelieu Orchestrates French Involvement | |
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| Countering the Counter-Reformation | |
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| The 1635-1648 Franco-Swedish Phase | |
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| Richelieu and the Ascendance of Raison d'Etat | |
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| The Final Phase of the War | |
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| The Rocky Road to Peace | |
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| The Eleventh Hour of the Thirty Years' War | |
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| The Costs of the Thirty Years' War | |
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| A World Destroyed | |
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| Why Did the War Last? | |
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| The War's Consequences | |
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| The Collapse of Civil Culture | |
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| The Collapse of Prosperity | |
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| The Collapse of Christian Unity | |
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| The Collapse of Legal Constraints on Warfare | |
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| How the War Ended | |
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| The Peace of Westphalia's Blueprint for International Relations | |
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| Negotiating the Peace Settlement | |
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| Ending the Thirty Years' War | |
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| The Terms of the Settlement | |
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| Decisions on Material Issues | |
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| Decisions on the Rules of Statecraft | |
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| Contending Interpretations of the Peace Settlement | |
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| The Consequences of the Peace Settlement | |
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| Evaluating the New Order | |
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| Ten Tenets for Peace | |
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| Retributive Justice | |
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| Assimilating Losers into the Postwar System | |
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| Removing Religion from International Politics | |
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| State Sovereignty | |
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| The Equality of States | |
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| The Balance of Power | |
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| Collective Security and Multilateral Diplomacy | |
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| Selective Nonintervention | |
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| Legitimizing Realpolitik | |
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| The Demise of Moral Constraints | |
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| The Normative Legacy of the Peace Settlement | |
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| Westphalia's Grim Military Legacy | |
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| Westphalia's Turbulent Political Legacy | |
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| Westphalia as a War System | |
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| The Westphalian Ghost and Future of World Order | |
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| Challenges to World Order at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Integrative Trends That Are Transforming World Politics | |
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| Globalization and the Erosion of State Sovereignty | |
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| Democratization and the Emergence of Global Civil Society | |
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| Humanitarianism and the Decay of the Nonintervention Principle | |
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| Disintegrative Trends That Are Transforming World Politics | |
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| The Implosion of Failed States | |
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| The Reassertion of Parochialism | |
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| Beyond the Westphalian Model of World Politics | |
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| Westphalia's Problematic Contribution to Contemporary World Order | |
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| Comparing Two Postwar Eras | |
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| Westphalia and the Changing World System | |
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| International Norms and the Peace of Westphalia | |
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| The Westphalian Normative Order | |
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| Deficiencies in the Westphalian Normative Order | |
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| Toward a Post-Westphalian Normative Order | |
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| The Importance of Trust in Global Governance for World Order | |
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| Trust and Statecraft | |
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| The Concept of Trust | |
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| Types of Trust | |
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| Global Cultures of Trust and Mistrust | |
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| Westphalia and the Culture of Mistrust | |
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| Weighing the Evidence on Cultures of Mistrust | |
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| Approaches to Building a Global Culture of Trust | |
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| Establishing Reciprocity-Based Trust | |
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| Development Identity-Based Trust | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| References | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |