The outbreak of the First World War : structure, politics, and decision-making /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Other Authors: Levy, Jack S., 1948- (Editor), Vasquez, John A., 1945- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: London ; New York : 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.