War : Controling escalation / Richard Smoke.

PART ONE. The problem of esclation. 1- Introducction / 2- The many meanings of escalation / 3- Understanding escalation control /

PART TWO. Case studies in escalation and its control. 4- The Spanish Civil War / 5- The Wars of German Unification: The Austro-Prussian War / 6- The Wars of German Unification: The Franco-Prussian War / 7- The Crimean War / 8- The Seven Years War /

PART THREE. Toward the control of escalation. 9- On the Assessment of conflicts / 10- The heart of escalation dynamics /

Epilogue.

Appendix A. Operational Questions for decision-makers

Appendix B. The Research methodology: Presuppositions and rationale.

Appendix C. The italian submarine campaign in the Spanish Civil War.

Tables.

Maps.