Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Part I: The Domestic Politics of War Termination
7. 1. Old Baldy 3
8. 2. Domestic Coalition Shifts in War Termination 19
9. Part II: The Korean War
10. 3. The Korean States: Powerless Players in the Forgotten War 65
11. 4. The Soviet Union: Outlasting Stalin’s Preferences 91
12. 5. The United States, Part 1: Trapped by the NSC-68 Mindset 120
13. 6. The United States, Part 2: Trapped by Voluntary Prisoner Repatriation 150
14. 7. China: Trapped by a Hawkish Ally 178
15. 8. Interacting Domestic Coalitions in Bargains for Peace 210
16. Part III: Testing and Extending the Argument
17. 9. Domestic Coalition Shifts in War Termination since 1862 239
18. 10. War Termination in Theory and Practice 272
19. Epilogue 303
20. Appendixes
21. A. Interstate Wars Included in the Post–World War II Dataset 305
22. B. Domestic Governing Coalition Shifts since World War II 308
23. Notes 313
24. Bibliography 339
25. Index 383