Arms races in international politics : from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo, and David Stevenson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Anglo-German naval race, 1898-1914 / Matthew S. Seligmann -- Land armaments in Europe, 1866-1914 / David Stevenson -- Land armaments, 1919-1941 / Evan Mawdsley -- Naval armaments competition between the two world wars / Joseph Maiolo -- Aircraft and the arms race between the world wars / Richard Overy -- The United States and the Cold War arms race / Timothy Hoyt -- The Soviet Union and the Cold War arms race / Sergey Radchenko -- The Cold War arms race: forces beyond the superpowers / Vojtech Mastny -- Arms races and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Avi Kober -- Arms and assistance in South Asia 1953-1965: why racing alone explains little / Rudra Chaudhuri -- Racing from behind: China and the dynamics of arms chases and races in East Asia in the twenty-first century / Tai Ming Cheung -- Armaments developments since the Cold War / Thomas Mahnken.