Joseph Maiolo: Introduction
PART I: Before 1914
1: David Stevenson: Introduction: Before 1914
2: Matthew S. Seligmann: The Anglo-German Naval Race, 1898-1914
3: David Stevenson: Land Armaments in Europe, 1866-1914
PART II: BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
4: Joseph Maiolo: Introduction: Between the Two World Wars
5: Evan Mawdsley: Land Armaments, 1919-1941
6: Joseph Maiolo: Naval Armaments Competition between the Two World
Wars
7: Richard Overy: Aircraft and the Arms Race between the World
Wars
PART III: THE COLD WAR ARMS RACE
8: Thomas Mahnken: Introduction: The Cold War Arms Race
9: Timothy D. Hoyt: The United States and the Cold War Arms
Race
10: Sergey Radchenko: The Soviet Union and the Cold War Arms
Race
11: Vojtech Mastny: The Cold War Arms Race: Forces Beyond the
Superpowers
PART IV: EXTRA-EUROPEAN ARMS RACES AND DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE COLD
WAR
12: Thomas Mahnken: Introduction: Extra-European Arms Races and
Developments since the Cold War
13: Avi Kober: Arms Races and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
14: Rudra Chaudhuri: Arms and Assistance in South Asia 1953-1965:
Why Racing Alone Explains Little
15: Tai Ming Cheung: Racing from Behind: China and the Dynamics of
Arms Chases and Races in East Asia in the 21st Century
16: Thomas Mahnken: Armaments Developments since the Cold War
David Stevenson: Conclusion
Thomas G. Mahnken is currently Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic
Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College and a
Senior Research Professor at the Philip Merrill Center for
Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His most recent
books are Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present and Future of
Regional Security (2014) and Competitive Strategies for the 21st
Century:
Theory, History, and Practice (2012). He is co-editor of The
Journal of Strategic Studies. Joseph Maiolo is Professor of
International History in the Department of War Studies, King's
College London, and Visiting
Research Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence
University, Oslo. He is author of Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race
Drove the World to War, 1931-1941 (2010), co-author of An
International History of the Twentieth Century (2014), and
co-editor of volume II of The Cambridge History of the Second World
War (2015). He is co-editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies.
David Stevenson holds the Stevenson Chair of International History
at the London School of
Economics & Political Science. His publications include Armaments
and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914 (1996); 1914-1918: the
History of the First World War (2004); and With Our Backs to the
Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (2011). He
is currently preparing an international history of the year 1917.
[The editors'] collective endeavor offers not only important
observations about specific arms races but also new theoretical
insights into the phenomena of the arms race itself. This
well-conceived collection also contains new details about the major
arms competitions that influence how political scientists and
historians think about the relationship between arms racing and
war.
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