The Amateur Strategist - Intuitive Deterrence Theories and the Politics of the Nuclear Arms Race

This book explores how the everyday person reasons about nuclear strategy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. A primer on the Cold War nuclear debate; 3. An introduction to intuitive deterrence theories; 4. Competing hypotheses about nuclear thinking; 5. The novice strategists; 6. The intuitive calculus of nuclear deterrence; 7. Statistical tests of the intuitive nuclear calculus; 8. Expert nuclear reasoning; 9. The factional politics of strategy and the end of the Cold War arms race; 10. Nuclear thinking after the cold war.

Zusammenfassung

This book, first published in 1995, explores how the everyday person reasons about nuclear strategy. James DeNardo's discovery that the amateur's strategic reasoning defies all conventional theories lays the groundwork for a new understanding of national security politics, and challenges the intellectual foundations of modern deterrence theory, public opinion studies, and game theory.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James DeNardo
• Mitarbeit: Dennis Chong (Herausgeber), James H. Kuklinski (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.08.1995
• EAN: 9780521481212
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48121-2
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Gewicht: 610 g
• Illustration: 44 b/w illus. 30 tables, Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Political; Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology; Cambridge Studies in Political
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear weapons, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control