TY - BOOK AU - Paul W Schroeder AU - Paul W Schroeder TI - Systems, stability, and statecraft : : essays on the international history of modern Europe SN - 9781403963581 U1 - 940.28 SCH PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - : Palgrave Macmillan KW - History KW - History of Europe KW - International relations N1 - Introduction / David Wetzel, Robert Jervis, Jack S. Levy -- War, Peace, and the Concert -- Napoleon's Foreign Policy: A Criminal Enterprise -- Did the Vienna Settlement Rest on a Balance of Power? -- Bruck Versus Buol: The Dispute Over Austrian Eastern Policy, 1853-55 -- The Lost Intermediaries: The Impact of 1870 on the European System -- Gladstone as Bismarck -- Containment Nineteenth Century Style: How Russia was Restrained -- World War I -- World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak -- Embedded Counterfactuals and World War I as an Unavoidable War -- Tools of International Statecraft -- Alliances, 1815-1945: Weapons of Power and Tools of Management -- The Nineteenth Century System: Balance of Power or Political Equilibrium? -- Trends and Implications -- The Cold War and Its Ending in "Long-Duration" International History -- Does the History of International Politics Go Anywhere? -- International History: Why Historians Do It Differently than Political Scientists -- The Mirage of Empire Versus the Promise of Hegemony N2 - Raising new questions and offering provocative new interpretations, Schroeder encourages historians and political scientists alike to reconsider their long-standing beliefs about the evolution and dynamics of modern diplomacy ER -