Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Rethinking Theories of the Two World Wars: Social Development, Geopolitics, and War; Chapter 2. The Theory of Uneven and Combined Development: Origins and Reconfigurations; Chapter 3. 1914 in World Historical Perspective: The Uneven and Combined Origins of the First World War; Chapter 4. Between War and Revolution: Wilsonian Diplomacy and the Making of the Versailles System; Chapter 5. Nazism and the Coming of World War II in Europe: Change and Continuity in German Foreign Policymaking during the Interwar Years. Chapter 6. Class, Security, War: The International Political Economy of AppeasementConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant aspect of this story: the intersocietal or geosocial origins of the two world wars, and, more broadly, the confluence of factors behind the Thirty Years' Crisis between 1914 and 1945. Anievas presents the Thirty Years' Crisis as a result of the development of global capitalism with all its destabilizing social and geopolitical consequences, particularly the intertwined and co-constitutive nature of imperial rivalries, social revolutions, and anti-colonial struggles. Building on the theory of uneven and combined development, he unites geopolitical and sociological explanations into a single framework, thereby circumventing the analytical stalemate between primacy of domestic politics and primacy of foreign policy approaches"-