Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. A Note on Method IX
4. Contents XIII
5. About Spies and Such 3
6. Part One: The Context for Policymaking
7. 1. The Peacemaking Phase and its Product 11
8. 2. International Quarrels, Religious and Irreligious 23
9. 3. International Attitudes and Outlooks 39
10. Part Two: The Making of Spanish Habsburg Policy
11. 4. The Ultimate Question: War or Peace? 53
12. 5. The Policymaking Apparatus—Madrid 65
13. 6. The Policymaking Apparatus—Brussels 77
14. 7. Parenthesis: Portrait of a Bureaucracy 88
15. 8. The Informational Base of Foreign Policy 92
16. Part Three: Intelligence from England
17. 9. The Court and Character of James I 109
18. 10. Gondomar: The Classic Machiavelli 120
19. 11. Jean-Baptiste van Male: A Renaissance Spymaster 134
20. 12. William Sterrell: A Jacobean Letter Writer 153
21. Part Four: Spanish Espionage Put to the Test
22. 13. A Problem of Espionage 171
23. 14. An Extraordinary Embassy from France 182
24. 15. The Laying Bare of Secrets 192
25. 16. Denouement: The Bassompierre Mission to Madrid 207
26. 17. Van Male and the Six Dutch Deputies 213
27. 18. Secrets not Laid Bare 223
28. 19. Gondomar in Mid-February, 1621 233
29. 20. Van Male Blunders On 245
30. 21. Denouement: The Pecquius Mission to the Hague 258
31. Epilogue 266
32. Notes 271
33. Bibliography 305
34. Index 315