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

Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Levy, Jack S. 1948- (Éditeur intellectuel), Vasquez, John A. 1945- (Autre)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014
Sujets:World War, 1914-1918 Geschichte Internationale Politik Kriegsbeginn Kriegsursache Internationaler Konflikt Internationale Krise Präventivkrieg Politische Führung Entscheidungsprozess plus... Erster Weltkrieg Außenpolitik Militärische Planung Geschichte 1914
Description matérielle:XVIII, 305 S.
Table des matières:
  • Part I. Overview of debates about the causes of the First World WarIntroduction: 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.