Complex Deterrence
Strategy in the Global Age
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2009
359 pages
978-0-226-65004-3 (ISBN)
Description
As the costs of a preemptive foreign policy in Iraq have become clear, strategies such as containment and deterrence have been gaining currency among policy makers. This comprehensive book offers an agenda for the contemporary practice of deterrence-especially as it applies to nuclear weapons-in an increasingly heterogeneous global and political setting.Moving beyond the precepts of traditional deterrence theory, this groundbreaking volume offers insights for the use of deterrence in the modern world, where policy makers may encounter irrational actors, failed states, religious zeal, ambiguous power relationships, and other situations where the traditional rules of statecraft do not apply. A distinguished group of contributors here examines issues such as deterrence among the Great Powers, the problems of regional and nonstate actors, and actors armed with chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Complex Deterrence will be a valuable resource for anyone facing the considerable challenge of fostering security and peace in the twenty-first century.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction
- 1. Complex Deterrence: An Introduction / T. V. Paul
- II. Deterrence and its Challenges
- 2. Three Items in One: Deterrence as Concept, Research Program, and Political Issue / Jeffrey W. Knopf
- 3. Rational Deterrence against "Irrational" Adversaries? No Common Knowledge / Janice Gross Stein
- III. Deterrence and Nonstate Actors
- 4. Complex Deterrence in the Asymmetric- Warfare Era / Emanuel Adler
- 5. Deterring Nuclear Terrorists / S. Paul Kapur
- IV. Deterrence and Smaller Powers
- 6. Deterrence, Rogue States, and the U.S. Policy / Robert Jervis
- 7. Collective-Actor Deterrence / Patrick M. Morgan
- 8. Complexity of Deterrence among New Nuclear States:The India-Pakistan Case / Dinshaw Mistry
- 9. Unconventional Deterrence: How the Weak Deter the Strong / Ivan Arreguín-Toft
- 10. Deterrence and Compellence in Iraq, 1991-2003: Lessons for a Complex Paradigm / Frank P. Harvey and Patrick James
- V. Deterrence and Major Powers
- 11. Deterrence among Great Powers in an Era of Globalization / Patrick M. Morgan and T. V. Paul
- 12. The Endurance of Extended Deterrence: Continuity, Change, and Complexity in Theory and Policy / Timothy W. Crawford
- 13. The Revolution in Military Affairs: Impact of Emerging Technologies on Deterrence / Michel Fortmann and Stéfanie von Hlatky
- Conclusions / James J. Wirtz
- List of Contributors
- Index
