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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459776003321

Titolo

The next great war? : the roots of World War I and the risk of U.S.-China conflict / / Richard Rosecrance and Steven E. Miller, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32677-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Belfer Center studies in international security

Disciplina

940.3/11

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Causes

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : The Sarajevo Centenary, 1914 and the Rise of China / Steven E. Miller -- Before the War : Three Styles of Diplomacy / Alan Alexandroff -- Respites or Resolutions? :  Recurring Crises and the Origins of War / Arthur A. Stein -- Better Now Than Later : The Paradox of 1914 as Everyone's Favored Year for War / Jack Snyder -- Allies, Overbalance, and War / Richard N. Rosecrance -- Economic Interdependence and War / Richard N. Cooper -- The Thucydides Trap / Graham Allison -- Thucydides Dethroned : Historical Differences That Weaken the Peloponnesian Analogy / David K. Richards -- Thucydides, Alliance Politics, and Great Power Conflict / Charles S. Maier -- War, Revolution, and the Uncertain Primacy of Domestic Politics / T.G. Otte -- Domestic Coalitions, Internationalization, and War : Then and Now / Etel Solingen -- European Militaries and the Origins of World War I / Stephen Van Evera -- Inevitability and War / Joseph S. Nye Jr. -- Lessons from Europe 1914 for Asia 2014 : Reflections on the Centenary of the Outbreak of World War I / Kevin Rudd -- Contingency as a Cause (or Little Things Mean a Lot) / Richard N. Rosecrance.

Sommario/riassunto

Experts consider how the lessons of World War I can help prevent U.S.--China conflict.