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Explaining war and peace : case studies and necessary condition counterfactuals / edited by Gary Goertz and Jack S. Levy

Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary security studiesPublisher: London : Routledge, 2007Description: xv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415422321 (hbk.)
  • 0415422329 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.66 GOE
Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Causal Explanation, Necessary Conditions, and Case Studies; 3. The Role of Necessary Conditions in the Outbreak of World War I; 4. Contingency, Catalysts and Non-Linear Change: The Origins of World War I; 5. Powder Kegs, Sparks and World War I; 6. Necessary Conditions and World War I as an Unavoidable War; 7. Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Revaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas; 8. Perestroika without Politics: How Realism Misunderstands the Cold War's End; 9. New versus Old Thinking in Qualitative Research; 10. Conclusions
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1. Introduction;
2. Causal Explanation, Necessary Conditions, and Case Studies;
3. The Role of Necessary Conditions in the Outbreak of World War I;
4. Contingency, Catalysts and Non-Linear Change: The Origins of World War I;
5. Powder Kegs, Sparks and World War I;
6. Necessary Conditions and World War I as an Unavoidable War;
7. Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Revaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas;
8. Perestroika without Politics: How Realism Misunderstands the Cold War's End;
9. New versus Old Thinking in Qualitative Research;
10. Conclusions