Crisis Diplomacy The Great Powers since the Mid-Nineteenth Century [Paperback]

In this book James Richardson examines nine major international crises from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to explain the differing outcomes of each.Why do some international crises lead to war, while others are resolved peacefully? Nine major international crises are examined in order to explain the differing outcomes of each, in relationship to theories that explain crisis behavior--nonrational as well as rational.Why do some international crises lead to war, while others are resolved peacefully? Nine major international crises are examined in order to explain the differing outcomes of each, in relationship to theories that explain crisis behavior--nonrational as well as rational.Why do some international crises lead to war, while others are resolved peacefully? Does the outcome depend mainly on underlying structural causes, or on decision makers' choices and diplomacy? In this book James Richardson examines nine major international crises from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to explain the differing outcomes of each. The author evaluates the main theories that have served to explain crisis behavior, emphasizing the conflict between theories based on an assumption of rationality, and those which emphasize the nonrational.Part I: 1. Introduction: aims and approaches; 2. Theories of crisis behaviour; 3. 'Crisis management' versus 'crisis diplomacy'; Part II: 4. The Eastern crisis, 18391841; 5. The Crimean war crisis, 18531854; 6. The Russo-Japanese crisis, 19031904; 7. The Sudeten crisis, 1938; 8. The Franco-Prussian and Agadir crises; 9. Pearl Harbor and the Berlin crises; Part III: 10. Crises and the international system: arenas, alignments and norms; 11. The choice of goals: values, interests and objectives; 12. Selective perception and misperception; 13. Crisis bargaining; 14. Internal politics; 15. The outcome and risk of war; Part IV: 16. Conclusions: theory and policy. Crisis Diplomacy makes three important contributions tol3‡