Part I : Conceptual framework -- The major powers: national capabilities -- Part II : European politics and overseas expansion -- Competition, crisis, and the search for stability -- Collisions of national interests -- The Anglo-German naval race -- Arms competition and the failure of negotiation -- The tripolitanian and Balkan Wars -- Europe on the eve of world war -- Part III : Theory and method of the analysis -- Expansion: colonial area -- Intensity of intersections -- Military expenditures -- Alliances -- Violence-behavior -- A synthesis -- Simulating international processes -- Epilog : A crtical assessment -- The future -- Appendix A : The data: sources and problems -- B : Methodology -- C : Alternative estimation procedures -- D : Biographies -- E : Treaties

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