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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Preface and acknowledgments | |
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| Why some regions are peaceful and others are not | |
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| Why there is a need for a new theory of regional war and peace: filling the gaps in the existing literature | |
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| 9/11, the post-Cold War era, and regional conflicts | |
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| Theory of regional war and peace: an overview | |
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| My theoretical approach | |
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| The key ideas and the existing literature | |
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| Overview of the book | |
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| A theory of regional war and peace | |
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| The phenomena to be explained | |
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| Competing theoretical perspectives: system, society, and community at two levels of analysis | |
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| Explaining regional war and peace | |
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| Summary | |
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| States, nations, and war | |
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| The argument | |
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| State-to-nation imbalance [right arrow] hot wars | |
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| Forces affecting the state-to-nation balance | |
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| Types of states and their war proneness | |
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| Linkages between revisionism and failed states | |
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| The state-to-nation imbalance and regional war proneness | |
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| Propositions derived from the state-to-nation imbalance as a key cause of regional war | |
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| The state-to-nation imbalance and the immediate causes of regional wars | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Explaining the war proneness of the Middle East | |
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| The Middle East puzzle | |
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| Application of the theory to the Middle East in the post-World War II era | |
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| The sources and manifestations of the state-to-nation imbalance in the Middle East | |
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| Explaining variations among different states in the same region with regard to resort to force and war involvement | |
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| Explaining spatial differences: the high war proneness of the Arab-Israeli arena | |
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| The effects of the state-to-nation imbalance on the regional war proneness: power and security as the proximate causes of specific Middle East wars | |
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| Explaining change over time | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The great powers and war and peace in the Middle East | |
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| Global factors: types of great power regional involvement | |
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| The Middle East during the Cold War period | |
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| US hegemony in the Middle East results in a transition to Arab-Israeli cold peace | |
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| The effects of 9/11 and the war in Iraq | |
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| Conclusions: systemic effects - possibilities and limitations | |
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| War and peace in the Balkans: states, nations, and great powers | |
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| Assessing the theory in the Balkans (1830-1913) | |
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| The effects of the type of great power engagement on regional outcomes in the post-World War I era | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The state-to-nation balance and the emergence of peace in South America during the twentieth century | |
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| Potential pathways to regional peace | |
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| The strategy of regional conflict resolution | |
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| The strategy of conflict resolution leads to normal peace | |
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| The conditions for the effectiveness of the conflict-resolution strategy: the presence of coherent states in the region | |
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| Explaining the emergence of peace in South America | |
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| The necessary conditions: consolidation of nationally congruent states | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The emergence of high-level peace in post-1945 Western Europe: nationalism, democracy, hegemony, and regional integration | |
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| The effects of regional integration | |
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| The conditions for the effectiveness of the integration strategy: the prevalence of liberal compatibility | |
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| The interrelationships between liberalism and nationalism | |
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| New liberal states under benign hegemony/concert | |
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| Post-1945 Western Europe: transition from war to high-level warm peace | |
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| The integration strategy's effects: the postnational state and high-level warm peace | |
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| The conditions for the strategy's effectiveness: liberalization under US hegemony | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Summary of the theory and findings | |
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| Some of the findings with regard to the six propositions listed at the end of chapter 2 | |
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| Utility of the theory | |
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| How to advance regional peace: lessons and suggestions | |
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| Strong and incongruent states: defeat of the revisionists and the coercive approach | |
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| Incongruent and weak states: great power intervention followed by partition or power-sharing | |
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| Congruent and weak: state-building leading to regional conflict resolution | |
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| Congruent and strong: integration of democracies | |
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| Sequencing the stages in regional peacemaking: an integrated-gradual approach | |
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| Regional peacemaking: summary | |
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| Agenda for future research | |
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| Comparative dimensions of the state-to-nation imbalance in the Middle East, the Balkans, South America, and Western Europe in the post-1945 era | |
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| Data-file: major armed conflicts/wars by region, type, and modes of great power regional involvement (1945-2004) | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |