Table of Contents
War and social theory / Martin Shaw -- Capitalism and militarism / Michael Mann -- War, imperialism and the state system / Martin Shaw -- Raymond Aron's sociology of states, or the Non-relative autonomy of inter-state behaviour / John Hall -- War resistance, state and society / Nigel Young -- The politics of peace and war / Ralph Miliband -- Western capitalism and the Cold War system / Michael Cox -- The political economy of British defence policy / Dan Smith -- Defence budgeting and accountability in Britain and America /Stephen Kirby and Andrew Cox.