QUIET CATACLYSM:
REFLECTIONS ON THE RECENT TRANSFORMATION OF WORLD POLITICS

by John Mueller

This book, originally published in 1995 by HarperCollins, can now be downloaded without charge in pdf format: Quiet Cataclysm. 226 pages.

For further information: bbbb@osu.edu

CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1 War, peace, and trouble in the aftermath of the Quiet Cataclysm
Chapter 2 Realism and the Cold War
Chapter 3 Arms races: positive and negative
Chapter 4 Expanding deterrence
Chapter 5 The essential irrelevance of nuclear weapons
Chapter 6 Enough rope: overextension versus containment
Chapter 7 Reassessing Pearl Harbor
Chapter 8 War: natural, but not necessary
Chapter 9 The historical movement of ideas: the rise of war aversion and the retreat from doomsday
Chapter 10 The historical movement of ideas: the rise of democracy
Appendix Anticipated cataclysms: predictions about endless peace, terminal war and other calamities
References
Index