International Security and Conflict

Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations at Yale University and Editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

• Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I How the Structure of the International System Constrains Nations' Choices: Theories of war in an era of leading-power peace, Robert Jervis; The future of the American pacifier, John Mearsheimer; The stability of a unipolar world, William C. Wohlforth; Legitimacy and the use of force: can the circle be squared?, Andrew Hurrell; Escape from the state of nature: authority and hierarchy in world politics, David A. Lake; Same war - different views: Germany, Japan, and counterterrorism, Peter J. Katzenstein. Part II How Domestic Politics May Affect Decisions on War and Peace: The democratic advantage: institutional foundations of financial power in international competition, Kenneth A. Schultz and Barry R. Weingast; Seeking peace in a post-Cold War world of hegemony and terrorism, John R. Oneal and Bruce Russett; The antinomy of democratic peace, Harald Müller; The democratic peace theory reframed: the impact of modernity, Azar Gat; The clash of civilizations?, Samuel P. Huntington. Part III How Individual and Small Group Behaviour Can Affect Foreign Policy: Conceptual models and the Cuban missile crisis, Graham T. Allison; The integrative complexity of American decision makers in the Cuban missile crisis, Karen Guttieri, Michael D. Wallace, and Peter Suedfeld; Democratic leaders and the democratic peace: the operational codes of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker; Foreign policy and the rational public in comparative perspective, Pierangelo Isernia, Zoltán Juhász and Hans Rattinger; Gender differences in public attitudes toward the use of force by the United States, 1990-2003, Richard C. Eichenberg; Further tests of the women and peace hypothesis: evidence from cross-national survey research in the Middle East, Mark Tessler, Jodi Nachtwey and Audra Grant. Part IV How International Organizations Can Affect the Security of States and Peoples: Why states act through formal international organ