阅读这本书将有助于读者理解如何寻找有研究价值的科学问题，国际关系专业的研究生甚至可以从中找到用于博士论文研究的问题。学者们早就注意到了战争的结束与战后的和平相关，凯格利和雷蒙则深化了这一问题。他们从战争的结束与和平时间长短相关的角度出发，提出了一个很有意义的问题，即：胜利者如何结束战争才有利于战后和平的长期延续？多数学者将精力集中于研究战争是如何爆发的，希望通过发现战争发生的原因，找到防止战争的途径。与多数学者的出发点不同，该书作者不是研究战争的发生而是研究战争的结束，力图通过研究不同战争结果对战后和平的影响，发现建立长期和平的条件。

Preface
About the Authors
PART 1 HOW STATES MAKE DECISIONS FOR WAR AND PEACE
1 War and the Making of Peace:An Introduction
PART 2 WAR AND PEACE IN THE CLASSICAL EUROPEAN STATE SYSTEM
2 The Thirty Years'Sar and the Peace of Westphalia:Violence as a way of life
3 The Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna:Building Peace with a Concert of Power
4 The Wars of German Unification:The Diplomacy of Iron and Blood
PART 3 THE QUEST FOR PEACE IN A CENTURY OF GLOBAL WAR
5 World War l and the Treaty of Versailles:A War to End All Wars?
6 World War ll and Its Aftermath:The Long，Cold Peace
PART 4 THE FACE OF WAR AND PEACE ON THE EVE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
7 The Persian Gulf War:A hollow Victory
8 Humanitarian Intervention into Kosove:A Quixotic Crusade?
PART 5 Humanitarian Intervention into Kosove:A Quixotic Crusade?
9 Waging Peace:Choices and Consequences
Glossary
References
Index