Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Theory and international history; 2 Transformations in power; 3 Domestically driven deviations: internal regimes, leaders, and realism's power line; 4 How international institutions affect outcomes; 5 Not even for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: power and order in the early modern era; 6 Austria-Hungary and the coming of the First World War; 7 British decisions for peace and war 1938-1939: the rise and fall of realism
8 Realism and risk in 1938: German foreign policy and the Munich Crisis9 Domestic politics, interservice impasse, and Japan's decisions for war; 10 Military audacity: Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and China's adventure in Korea; 11 The United States' underuse of military power; 12 The overuse of American power; 13 Redrawing the Soviet power line: Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War; 14 Shared sovereignty in the European Union: Germany's economic governance; 15 John Mearsheimer's "elementary geometry of power": Euclidean moment or an intellectual blind alley?
16 History and neorealism reconsideredIndex
Summary
Leading historians and political scientists examine the relationship between history and the dominant theory of IR, realism
