International crisis and conflict

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 International Power and Crisis Management -- The lunacy of war -- The power and motivation of national leaders -- The foundations of international power -- Ideology, religion and power -- Crisis management -- PART II: POWER IN HISTORY -- 2 Historical Roots of International Conflict -- Civilization and human conflict -- Cities, states and empires -- The growth of European power -- Industrialization -- Imperialism and nationalism -- Revolution, socialism and democracy -- 3 The Balance of Power -- The Congress of Vienna -- The revolutions of 1848 -- Four more French revolutions -- Cavour, Bismarck and Napoleon III -- The Franco-Prussian War -- The Balance of Power -- Achievements of the Congress of Vienna: 1815-1914 -- 4 The Outbreak of the First World War -- An explosive mixture -- The Kaiser and the German Navy -- Sarajevo -- Mobilization timetables -- The people who started the war -- 5 The Rise of Hitler -- Wilson's Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles -- The failure of the League of Nations -- Versailles as the creator of Hitler -- Germany, Italy and Japan -- Hitler's war -- Whose fault? -- PART III: CRISIS AND CONFLICT UNDER THE NUCLEAR UMBRELLA -- 6 The Cold War -- The birth of the nuclear era and the Cold War -- Stalin and the peak of the Cold War: 1948-53 -- The Khrushchev era: 1953-64 -- Brezhnev and the arrival of Gorbachev: 1964-85 -- 7 Czechoslovakia and Berlin 1948 -- The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia -- The Berlin blockade -- 8 Cuba 1962 -- Khrushchev's gamble -- Anatomy of the crisis -- Crisis management -- 9 The First Arab-Israeli Wars 1948-67 -- The foundation of Israel -- The Suez War of 1956 -- The Six Day War of 1967 -- Assessment -- 10 The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 -- Sadat's Initiative for Peace.