Contains the texts of "key sources as well as a guide to the documents, a path through them and essential data on the role, form and vocabulary of treaties in general." Sections include:

1. The changing alliances and alignments before the First World War
2. Secret agreements and treaties of the First World War
3. The peace settlements, 1919-23
4. France, Britain, Italy and Germany, 1921-33
5. France and her eastern allies, 1921-39
6. The Soviet Union and her neighbours, 1919-37
7. The collapse of the territorial settlements of Versailles, 1931-37
8. From peace to world war in Europe and Asia, 1937-41
9. The Grand Alliance, 1941-45
10. The wartime conferences and the surrender of Japan, 1943-45
11. The peace treaties, 1945-51
12. The United Nations
13. The United States treaty system
14. The Soviet treaty system
15. The German question
16. The Irish Question, 1920-99
17. West European integration, 1947-85
18. The European Union, 1985-99
19. Asia after 1947
20. Independent Africa
21. The Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean since 1945
22. The Americas, 1960-99
23. Detente and arms control, 1963-86
24. Human rights
25. The environment
26. The break-up of the Soviet Empire
27. The disintegration of Yugoslavia
28. New world order, 1986-99