Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior 1
6. Chapter 1. Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power 22
7. Chapter 2. A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 46
8. Chapter 3. Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and Britain, and France, 1877–1913 69
9. Chapter 4. Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870 85
10. Chapter 5. Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics 103
11. Notes 131
12. Bibliography 153
13. Index 165