Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

[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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