An Improbable War?

List of Maps List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Foreword: President Jimmy Carter: A Century of War and Peace Introduction PART I: EUROPEAN STATESCRAFT AND THE QUESTION OF WAR AND PEACE BEFORE 1914 Chapter 1. Stealing Horses to Great Applause: Austria-Hungary's Decision in 1914 in Systemic Perspective Paul W. Schroeder Chapter 2. Did Norms Matter in Nineteenth-Century International Relations? Progress and Decline in the "Culture of Peace" before World War I Matthias Schulz Chapter 3. Aggressive and Defensive Aims of Political Elites? Austro-Hungarian Policy in 1914 Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. Chapter 4. The Curious Case of the Kaiser's Disappearing War Guilt: Wilhelm II in July 1914 John C. G. Rohl PART II: THE MILITARY SITUATION BEFORE 1914: EUROPE BETWEEN HOT AND COLD WAR Chapter 5. Chances and Limits of Armament Control 1898-1914 Jost Dulffer Chapter 6. The Naval Race before 1914: Was a Peaceful Outcome Thinkable? Michael Epkenhans Chapter 7. Was a Peaceful Solution Thinkable? The European Land Armaments Race before 1914 David Stevenson Chapter 8. The German and Austro-Hungarian General Staffs and their Reflections on an Impossible War Gunther Kronenbitter PART III: HOPES AND FEARS OF WAR AND PEACE: SUBJECTIVE EXPECTATIONS AND UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES BEFORE 1914 Chapter 9. The Topos of Improbable War in Europe before 1914 Holger Afflerbach Chapter 10. Unfought Wars: The Effect of Detente before World War I Friedrich Kiesling Chapter 11. "War Enthusiasm?" Public Opinion and the Outbreak of War in 1914 Roger Chickering Chapter 12. Education for War, Peace, and Patriotism in Russia on the Eve of World War I Joshua A. Sanborn PART IV: CULTURE, GENDER, RELIGIOSITY, AND THE COMING OF WAR Chapter 13. Honor, Gender, and Power: The Politics of Satisfaction in Pre-War Europe Ute Frevert Chapter 14. International Solidarity in European and North American Protestantism before 1914 and after Hartmut Lehmann Chapter 15. International Relations, Arts, and Culture before 1914 Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht PART V: THE PERSPECTIVE FROM AFAR: THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN EUROPE IN THE EYES OF OTHER CONTINENTS Chapter 16. War as the Savior? Hopes for War and Peace in Ottoman Politics before 1914 Mustafa Aksakal Chapter 17. The View from Japan: War and Peace in Europe around 1914 Frederick R. Dickinson Chapter 18. War, Peace, and Commerce: The American Reaction to the Outbreak of World War I in Europe Fraser J. Harbutt Contributors Selected Bibliography Index of Names