Samuel R. Williamson

Crisis Diplomacy: The Great Powers since the Mid-Nineteenth Century.

Part I: 1. Introduction: aims and approaches 2. Theories of crisis behaviour 3. Crisis management versus crisis diplomacy Part II: 4. The Eastern crisis, 1839-1841 5. The Crimean war crisis, 1853-1854 6. The Russo-Japanese crisis, 1903-1904 7. The Sudeten crisis, 1938 8. The Franco-Prussian and Agadir crises 9. Pearl Harbor and the Berlin crises Part III: 10. Crises and the international system: arenas, alignments and norms 11. The choice of goals: values, interests and objectives 12. Selective perception and misperception 13. Crisis bargaining 14. Internal politics 15. The outcome and risk of war Part IV: 16. Conclusions: theory and policy.

The habsburg Monarchy among the Great Powers, 1815-1918.@@@Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War.

The making of foreign policy in the Habsburg Monarchy Austria and the European states system of 1815 the fruits of isolation, 1856-71 the search for a Near Eastern partnership, 1871-81 detente and deterrence, 1881-97 the Austro-Russian Entente, 1897-1908 Austro-Russian confrontation, 1908-1914 the World War and the end of Austria-Hungary.