Introduction Part I. The Balance of Power Chapter 1. Foreign Correspondence: European Accounts of Sultan Suleyman's Persian Campaigns, 1548 and 1554 Chapter 2. Charles V Reneges? A Campaign in Hungary That Never Was Chapter 3. The Road to Szigetvar: Ferdinand I's Defense of his Hungarian Border, 1548 - 1564 Chapter 4. "Tokaj, 1565: A Habsburg Prize of War and an Ottoman Casus Belli," in Pal Fodor, ed., The Battle for Central Europe: The Siege of Szigetvár (Brill: Leiden: 2019), 359-376 Part II. Negotiating from a Position of Weakness Chapter 5.

"The Grand Vezir and the Small Republic: Dubrovnik and Rustem Pasa, 1544 - 1561," Turkish Historical Review, I (2010): 196-214 Chapter 6. "The Ambassador as Third Party: Busbecq's Summary Account for the Year 1559," Acta Histriae, 22 (2014), 1-12 Chapter 7. "A Castle in Dalmatia: Zemunik in the Veneto-Ottoman Peace Negotiations of 1573 - 1574," Journal of Opinions, Ideas, and Essays (JOIE), 1 (2013), no. 7 Chapter 8. "The Logic of Kleinkrieg: The 'Book of Halil Beg' in Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy, 1550 - 1576," Austrian History Yearbook, LII (2021), 85-101 Part III. Dynasties and Composite States Chapter 9. "Reformed Perspectives on the Habsburg-Ottoman Conflict, 1564 - 1576: Notes on the Correspondence of Beza, Bullinger, and Gwalther," in Amy Nelson Burnett, Kathleen M. Comerford, Karin Maag, eds.

, Politics, Gender and Belief: Essays on the Long-Term Impact of the Reformation (Geneva: Droz, 2014), 73-94 Chapter 10. "Advice from a Lutheran Politique: Ambassador David Ungnad's Circular Letter to the Austrian Estates, 1576," in Victoria Christman, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, eds., Cultural Shifts and Transformations in Reformation Europe (Leiden:" Brill, 2020). 193-209 Chapter 11. "The Habsburg Monarchy in Conflict with the Ottoman Empire, 1526 - 1593: A Clash of Civilizations," Austrian History Yearbook, XLVI (2015): 1- 28 Epilogue Bibliography Index.