1. War and the making of peace: an introduction.
2. Approaches to dealing with the defeated.
3. Tarnished triumph: Sparta and the Peloponnesian war.
4. Creating a desolation called peace: Rome and the Punic wars.
5. Visionary victors? The Napoleonic wars and the Congress of Vienna.
6. Blood and iron: the wars of German unification.
7. A war to end all wars? World War I and the Treaty of Versailles.
8. The long, cold peace: the aftermath of World War II.
9. Vacant victory: The Persian Gulf war.
10. Waging peace: choices and consequences.
