Introduction : restraints on war, 1899-1939 / B.J.C. McKercher -- The British Government, the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, and the armaments question / Andre T. Sidorowicz -- "The British empire floats on the British navy" : British naval policy, belligerent rights, and disarmament, 1902-1909 / Keith Neilson -- Abolishing war? : military disarmament at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 / Lorna S. Jaffe -- A matter of controversy : the peace movement and British arms policy in the interwar period / Cecelia Lynch -- Look back in anger : the Western powers and the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 / Malcolm H. Murfett -- The Coolidge Conference of 1927 : disarmament in disarray / Richard W. Fanning -- The historians and the Geneva Naval Conference / Marc Epstein -- The 1930 London Naval Conference and Anglo-American maritime strength, 1927-1930 / Gregory C. Kennedy.

Of horns and teeth : the Preparatory Commission and the World Disarmament Conference, 1926-1934 / B.J.C. McKercher -- Protecting national interests by treaty, the Second Naval London Conference, 1934-1936 / Meredith W. Berg.