Crisis Diplomacy : The Great Powers since the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Part I: 1. Introduction: aims and approaches; 2. Theories of crisis behaviour; 3. 'Crisis management' versus 'crisis diplomacy'; Part II: 4. The Eastern crisis, 1839?1841; 5. The Crimean war crisis, 1853?1854; 6. The Russo-Japanese crisis, 1903?1904; 7. The Sudeten crisis, 1938; 8. The Franco-Prussian and Agadir crises; 9. Pearl Harbor and the Berlin crises; Part III: 10. Crises and the international system: arenas, alignments and norms; 11. The choice of goals: values, interests and objectives; 12. Selective perception and misperception; 13. Crisis bargaining; 14. Internal politics; 15. The outcome and risk of war; Part IV: 16. Conclusions: theory and policy.