| I. Introduction: Framing, Testing and Using Theories |
| 1 |
Hypotheses, Laws, Theories and Case Studies |
| II. Hypotheses on the Causes of War |
| 2-3 |
Propositional Inventories on War, and Military Causes of War |
| 4 |
Hypotheses on Systemic Power Factors, and Hypotheses on National Misperception |
| 5 |
Hypotheses on Domestic Political and Social Structure: Democracy, Revolution, Culture, Gender, Social Equality and Social Justice, Minority Rights and Human Rights, Prosperity, Economic Interdependence, Capitalism, Communism, Imperial Decline and Collapse, Cultural Learning, Religion as a Cause of Peace and War |
| 6 |
Hypotheses on Strategic Interaction; Applications of Theories of War to explain History; Causes of Civil War; Case Study Method |
| III. Case Studies |
| 7 |
The Seven Years War and the Korean War |
| 8-9 |
World War I |
| 10 |
The Second World War in Europe |
| 11 |
The Pacific War |
| 12 |
The Arab-Israeli War 1967; The 1991 Persian Gulf War; The Peloponnesian War |
| IV. The Future of War |
| 13 |
The Future of War: Using Theory to Predict and Prescribe; The Field Agenda in War Studies |
