Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The great powers' dilemma : uncertainty, intentions, and rising power politics
  • The politics of legitimacy : how a rising power's right makes might
  • America's ambiguous ambition : Britain and the accommodation of the United States, 1817-1823
  • Prussia's rule-bound revolution : Europe and the destruction of the balance of power, 1863-1864
  • Germany's rhetorical rage : Britain and the abandonment of appeasement, 1938-1939
  • Japan's folly : Manchuria and the turn to revolution, 1931-1933
  • Conclusion : legitimacy, power, and strategy.