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Last updated: October 27, 2008

Published by Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois

Swords and Ploughshares series
Vol. IV / No. 1 / October 1989

Full text [PDF]

Summary

Contents

Introduction [PDF]
Jeremiah D. Sullivan

The Nineteenth Century System: Balance of Power or Political Equilibrium [PDF]
Paul W. Schroeder

Louis XIV and the Fallacies of Absolute Security [PDF]
John A. Lynn

World War II, American-Style: The Mystique of Home Front Sacrifice [PDF]
Mark H. Leff

Air-mindedness and the Authoritarian State [PDF]
Peter A. Fritzsche