Part I. Overview of debates about the causes of the First World War
Introduction: historians, political scientists, and the causes of the First World War / Jack S. Levy and John A. Vasquez
July 1914 revisited and revised: the erosion of the German paradigm / Samuel R. Williamson
Part II. Structure and agency
Strategic rivalries and complex causality in 1914 / Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson
"A formidable factor in European politics": views of Russia in 1914 / T. G. Otte
Part II. The question of preventive war
Restraints on preventive war before 1914 / William Mulligan
The sources of preventive logic in German decision-making in 1914 / Jack S. Levy
IR theory and the three great puzzles of the great war / Dale C. Copeland
Was the First World War a preventive war? Concepts, criteria, and evidence / John A. Vasquez
Part IV. The role of the other powers
War accepted but unsought: Russia's growing militancy and the July Crisis, 1914 / Ronald Park Bobroff
France's unreadiness for war in 1914 and its implications for French decision making in the July Crisis / John Keiger.
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The outbreak of the First World War : structure, politics, and decision-making. ISBN 9781107616028. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
