Arms Races in International Politics: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

321 Pages·2016·8.54 MB·English

by  Thomas Mahnken

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ARMS RACES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
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Arms Races in
International Politics
From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Edited by
THOMAS MAHNKEN,
JOSEPH MAIOLO,
and
DAVID STEVENSON
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Acknowledgements
This volume is the result of a research project on the ‘history and theory of arms
races’ supported by the US Naval War College’s Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic
Geography and National Security. For additional finance, the editors would like
to thank the Department of International History at the London School of
Economics and Political Science and the Department of War Studies at King’s
College London. There are many individuals to whom we are indebted. For adminis-
trative assistance, we would like to thank Shirley Fernandes, Chris Mello, Karen
Sellers, Michael Sherlock, and George Zecher at the US Naval War College; Scott
Keefer and Milada Fomina at the LSE; and Susanne Krieg and Helen Bhandari at
King’s College London. On 11–13 April 2013, we held a workshop for the pro-
ject at King’s College London hosted by the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the
History of War. Each of our contributors presented a draft chapter and received
feedback from commentators. For their intelligent insights and expert feedback in
the role of commentators, we are indebted to Ahron Bregman, Sebastian Cox,
Todd Greentree, MacGregor Knox, Ali Kocho Williams, Arne Hofmann, Andrew
Lambert, John Maurer, Thomas Otte, Toshi Yoshihara, and Barry Buzan. For help
in putting together the penultimate manuscript, our gratitude goes to Luke Penn-Hall
at Johns Hopkins University. Our editors at Oxford University Press, Robert Faber
and Cathryn Steele, have been particularly supportive with this project; we would
also like to thank the Press’s anonymous readers for their constructive criticisms
and comments. For their assistance with producing the final manuscript, we
would like to thank copy editor Christopher Summerville, and from production
Manikandan Chandrasekaran, Menaka Gupta, and Stephen York. Finally, the
editors would like to thank each other for their comradeship, professionalism, and
good humour throughout the making of this volume. It has been a fascinating
journey into an important aspect of modern international politics, and we hope
this book will serve its readers well and stimulate further research and debate.
Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo,
and David Stevenson
February 2015
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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Maps xii
List of Tables xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
List of Contributors xvii
Introduction 1
Joseph Maiolo
PART I: BEFORE 1914
Introduction 11
David Stevenson
1. The Anglo-German Naval Race, 1898–1914 21
Matthew S. Seligmann
2. Land Armaments in Europe, 1866–1914 41
David Stevenson
PART II: BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
Introduction 61
Joseph Maiolo
3. Land Armaments, 1919–1941 69
Evan Mawdsley
4. Naval Armaments Competition Between the Two World Wars 93
Joseph Maiolo
5. Aircraft and the Arms Race Between the World Wars 115
Richard Overy
PART III: THE COLD WAR ARMS RACE
Introduction 135
Thomas Mahnken
6. The United States and the Cold War Arms Race 141
Timothy Hoyt
7. The Soviet Union and the Cold War Arms Race 158
Sergey Radchenko
8. The Cold War Arms Race: Forces Beyond the Superpowers 176
Vojtech Mastny