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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics? | |
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| What is International Politics? | |
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| Differing Views of Anarchic Politics | |
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| Building Blocks | |
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| The Peloponnesian War | |
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| A Short Version of a Long Story | |
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| Causes and Theories | |
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| Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future | |
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| Ethical Questions and International Politics | |
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| Limits on Ethics in International Relations | |
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| Three Views of the Role of Morality | |
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| Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars | |
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| Explaining Conflict and Cooperation: Tools and Techniques of the Trade | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| States, Nations, and Nation-States | |
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| International Actors, Power, and Authority | |
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| International System and International Society | |
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| System Stability and Crisis Stability | |
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| The "National Interest" | |
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| Levels of Analysis | |
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| The Individual Level | |
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| The State Level | |
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| The System Level | |
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| Paradigms and Theories | |
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| Realism | |
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| Liberalism | |
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| Constructivism | |
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| Marxism | |
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| Counterfactuals and 'Virtual History' | |
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| Plausibility | |
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| Proximity in Time | |
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| Relation to Theory | |
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| Facts | |
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| From Westphalia to World War I | |
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| Managing Great Power Conflict: Balance and Concert | |
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| Balances as Distributions of Power | |
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| Balance of Power as Policy | |
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| Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems | |
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| Alliances | |
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| The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth-Century System | |
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| Chronologies: Europe | |
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| The Origins of World War I | |
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| Three Levels of Analysis | |
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| Was War Inevitable? | |
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| What Kind of War? | |
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| The Funnel of Choices | |
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| Lessons of History Again | |
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| Chronology: The Road To World War I | |
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| The Failure of Collective Security and World War II | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Collective Security | |
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| The League of Nations | |
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| The United States and the League of Nations | |
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| The Early Days of the League | |
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| The Manchurian Failure | |
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| The Ethiopian Debacle | |
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| The Origins of World War II | |
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| Hitler's War? | |
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| Hitler's Strategy | |
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| The Role of the Individual | |
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| Systemic and Domestic Causes | |
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| Was War Inevitable? | |
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| The Pacific War | |
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| Appeasement and Two Types of War | |
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| Chronology: Between The World Wars | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Deterrence and Containment | |
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| Three Approaches to the Cold War | |
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| Roosevelt's Policies | |
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| Stalin's Policies | |
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| Phases of the Conflict | |
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| Inevitability? | |
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| Levels of Analysis | |
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| U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War | |
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| Containment | |
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| The Vietnam War | |
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| Motives, Means, and Consequences | |
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| Chronology: American Involvement in Vietnam (1954-1975) | |
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| The Rest of the Cold War | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| The Role of Nuclear Weapons | |
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| Physics and Politics | |
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| Balance of Terror | |
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| Problems of Nuclear Deterrence | |
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| The Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| Moral Issues | |
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| Chronology: The Cold War Years | |
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| Post-Cold War Conflict and Cooperation | |
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| Managing Conflict | |
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| International Law and Organization | |
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| Domestic Analogies | |
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| Predictability and Legitimacy | |
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| The United Nations: Collective Security and Peacekeeping | |
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| Intrastate Conflict | |
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| Intervention and Sovereignty | |
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| Defining Intervention | |
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| Judging Intervention | |
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| Exceptions to the Rule of Nonintervention | |
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| Problems of Self-Determination | |
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| Genocide and the "Responsibility to Protect" | |
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| Interstate Conflict | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| Arab-Israeli Conflict | |
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| Conflicts in the Persian Gulf, 1991 and 2003 | |
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| Chronology: Conflict In The Middle East | |
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| A Nuclear Iran? | |
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| Chronology: Iran's Nuclear Program | |
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| India and Pakistan | |
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| Chronology: The Kashmir Conflict | |
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| The Taiwan Strait | |
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| Chronology: The Taiwan Strait | |
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| North Korea | |
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| Chronology: North Korea | |
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| Globalization and Interdependence | |
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| The Dimensions of Globalization | |
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| What's New about Twenty-First-Century Globalization? | |
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| Political Reactions to Globalization | |
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| Power and Globalization | |
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| The Concept of Interdependence | |
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| Sources of Interdependence | |
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| Benefits of Interdependence | |
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| Costs of Interdependence | |
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| Symmetry of Interdependence | |
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| Leadership and Institutions in the World Economy | |
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| Realism and Complex Interdependence | |
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| The Politics of Oil | |
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| Oil as a Power Resource | |
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| The Information Revolution and Transnational Actors | |
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| Power and the Information Revolution | |
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| Lessons from the Past | |
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| A New World Politics? | |
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| Sovereignty and Control | |
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| Transnational Actors | |
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| Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) | |
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| The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence | |
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| Transnational Terrorism and the "War on Terror" | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| What Can We Expect in the Future? | |
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| Alternative Visions | |
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| The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations? | |
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| Technology and the Diffusion of Power | |
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| Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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| Transnational Challenges to Security | |
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| A New World Order? | |
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| Future Configurations of Power | |
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| The Prison of Old Concepts | |
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| The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |