The outbreak of the First World War : structure, politics, and decision-making /
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Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Overview of debates about the causes of the First World War
- Introduction: historians, political scientists, and the causes of the First World War / Jack S. Levy and John A. Vasquez
- July 1914 revisited and revised: the erosion of the German paradigm / Samuel R. Williamson
- Part II. Structure and agency
- Strategic rivalries and complex causality in 1914 / Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson
- "A formidable factor in European politics": views of Russia in 1914 / T.G. Otte
- Part II. The question of preventive war
- Restraints on preventive war before 1914 / William Mulligan
- The sources of preventive logic in German decision-making in 1914 / Jack S. Levy
- IR theory and the three great puzzles of the great war / Dale C. Copeland
- Was the First World War a preventive war? Concepts, criteria, and evidence / John A. Vasquez
- Part IV. The role of the other powers
- War accepted but unsought: Russia's growing militancy and the July Crisis, 1914 / Ronald Park Bobroff
- France's unreadiness for war in 1914 and its implications for French decision making in the July Crisis / John Keiger.