Introduction: Anxiety, Danger and the Ghost of Norman Angell

Part I: Theory

1. Explaining Behavioral Change: Why Norms Evolve

2. From Opium to Obsolescence: The Norms of War

Part II: Evidence

3. On Predicting International Affairs

4. Evaluating the Crystal Balls

5. Resource Wars? The Three States of Petroleum Politics

Part III: Implications

6. Theory and Great Power Peace

7. Grand Strategy and Great Power Peace

8. Foreign Policy and Great Power Peace: Restraint in Practice

Conclusion: Angell, Honor and Proliferation of Peace Bibliography

Index

Christopher J. Fettweis is an assistant professor of political science at Tulane University. He is the author of Losing Hurts Twice as Bad: The Four Stages to Moving Beyond Iraq.