Introduction: messages of peace and images of war: modern architecture as diplomacy / Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg and Vladimir Paperny
L'Exposition de 1937 n'aura pas lieu: the invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German pavilions / Danilo Udovick̆i-Selb
Italians do it better: facist Italy's new brand of nationalism in the art and architecture of the Italian pavilion, Paris 1937 / Flavia Marcello
Architecture as wartime cultural diplomacy: the Japanese pavilion at Paris 1937 / Akiko Takenaka
Hot and Cold War architecture of Soviet pavilions (1937-1959) / Vladimir Paperny
Architecture of light and water at the Universal Exhibition of Rome of 1942 / Angelo Maggi
From statecraft to stagecraft: the visual politics of Britishness at the South Bank Exhibition / Anthony Raynsford
Let us now invest in peace. Architecture at Expo 58 in resonance of war / Rika Devos
Politics of the void: Fraquista Spain at Expo 58 / Mariá Gonzaĺes Pendaś
Between wars, between blocs: Yugoslavia at Expo 58 / Vladimir Kulic ́
Epilogue: images of war and messages of peace: the American story / Lisa D. Schrenk.