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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 | |