The outbreak of the First World War : structure, politics, and decision-making / edited by Jack S. Levy and John A. Vasquez.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Overview of debates about the causes of the First World War -- 1.Introduction: historians, political scientists, and the causes of the First World War / John A. Vasquez -- 2.July 1914 revisited and revised: the erosi on of the German paradigm / Samuel R. Williamson Jr. -- pt. II Structure and agency -- 3.Strategic rivalries and complex causality in 1914 / William R. Thompson -- 4.A "formidable factor in European politics": views of Russia in 1914 / T. G. Otte -- pt. I II The question of preventive war -- 5.Restraints on preventive war before 1914 / William Mulligan -- 6.The sources of preventive logic in German decision-making in 1914 / Jack S. Levy -- 7.International relations theory and the three great puzzles of the First World War / Dale C. Copeland -- 8.Was the First World War a preventive war? Concepts, criteria, and evidence / John A. Vasquez -- pt. IV The role of the other powers -- Contents note continued: 9.War accepted but unsought: Russia's growing militancy and the July Crisis, 1914 / Ronald P. Bobroff -- 10.France's unreadiness for war in 1914 and its implications for French decision-making in the July Crisis / J. F. V. Keiger.