pt. 1. Power: issues and questions -- Power and the search for a general explanation of politics -- Power as resource-dependent statecraft -- pt. 2. A theoretical approach -- Risk and policy choice -- The politics of extraction -- Research design issues and choices -- pt. 3. Resource-dependent statecraft from the 1870s to 1914 -- The German Empire -- Britain -- France the the Third Republic -- pt. 4. Resource-dependent statecraft into the 1980s -- France on the Fourth and Fifth Republics -- Britain from Attlee to Thatcher -- The federal republic of Germany -- pt. 5. Conclusions and implications -- The domestic politics of resource-dependent statecraft
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