Using the literature on persuasion and deterrence, this study assesses the effectiveness of U.S. economic and diplomatic efforts to prevent genocide in Sudan.
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Deterrence theory predicts that an attack can be prevented if a defender communicates a clear, costly, and credible retaliatory threat that persuades an opponent that the costs of the attack outweigh possible benefits. While deterrence has received detailed treatment in inter-st…
This thesis argues that deterrence based on conventional weapons is prone to failure. The unique characteristics associated with nuclear weapons, however, tend to provide for a robust deterrent. This argument is supported by four case studies (Berlin 1958, 1961; Taiwan Straits, …
"What kind of nuclear strategy and posture does the United States need to defend itself and its allies? According to a longstanding, academic conventional wisdom, the answer to this question is straightforward: the United States needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attac…
Lawrence Freedman's acclaimed study of military and political attempts to cope with the power of nuclear weapons has now been updated to take account of the period following the end of the Cold War.
Forfatteren analyserer nogle internationale kriser, der har udviklet sig til konventionel krig, bla. 2. Verdenskrig, her engelsk/franske og tyske beslutningsprocesser i 1939/40, om israelske og ægyptiske overvejelser forud for krigene i Mellemøsten og endelig forfatterens egne b…
In this book, Philip Heymann argues that the United States and other democracies can fight terrorism while preserving liberty and maintaining a healthy, unified society. Drawing on his experience in the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, he shows how domestic and foreign int…
"Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the e…
"Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the e…
"The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post-Cold War security environment. Leading experts investigate the roles and salience of nuclear weapons in the national security s…
This volume is a systematic critical survey of American strategic thinking and the strategic culture in which it is formed. In particular it seeks to interrogate the theory and strategy of nuclear deterrence, and its relationship to the concept of missile defence.