Introduction -- Studting war, states and contention -- Part 1: War and movements in the building of new states. A movement-state goes to war: France, 1789-1799 -- A movement makes war: civil war and reconstruction -- A war makes movements: the strange death of liberal Italy -- Part 2: Endless wars. From statist war to composite wars -- Wars at home, 1917-1975 -- The war at home, 2001-2013 -- The American state of terror -- Contesting hegemony -- Part 3: Internationalization and the new world of contention. The dark side of internationalism.
