"The contents ... were first published in International security"--T.p. verso.

The long peace : elements of stability in the postwar international system / John Lewis Gaddis -- The essential irrelevance of nuclear weapons : stability in the postwar world / John Mueller -- The political effects of nuclear weapons : a comment / Robert Jervis -- Is war obsolete? : a review essay / Carl Kaysen -- Averting anarchy in the new Europe / Jack Snyder -- Back to the future : instability in Europe after the Cold War / Stephen Van Evera -- The unipolar illusion : why new great powers will rise / Christopher Layne -- International primacy : is the game worth the candle? / Robert Jervis -- Why international primacy matters / Samuel P. Huntington -- International relations theory and the end of the Cold War / John Lewis Gaddis.