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This book, first published in 1981, examines Cold War developments within particular nations, fields of warfare and areas of political-military interaction. The balance between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces is also closely analysed.
List of contents
Introduction Robert O’Neill 1. Strategic Thinking Since 1945 Theodore Ropp Part 1. Concepts Governing Superpower Policies and World Order 2. Force in International Relations: The Experience of the 1970s and Prospects for the 1980s Hedley Bull 3. US Strategic Nuclear Concepts in the 1970s: The Search for Sufficiently Equivalent Countervailing Parity Warner Schilling 4. Soviet Strategy 1965-1990 Geoffrey Jukes 5. On Limited War: Soviet Approaches Roman Kolkowicz 6. Deterrence and Stability in the NATO-Warsaw Pact Relationship Johan Jörgen Holst 7. Autonomy and Intervention: Superpowers and the Third World Mohammed Ayoob 8. Alliances in the 1970s and 1980s: Problems of Cohesion and Effectiveness T.B. Millar Part 2. The Strategic Thinking of the Asian Great Powers 9. The Evolution of Chinese Strategic Thought Jonathan D. Pollack 10. Strategic Thinking in India in the 1970s: Prospects for the 1980s R.V.R. Chandrasekhara Rao 11. Strategic Thinking in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s Makoto Momoi Part 3. The Development of Concepts Governing Non-Nuclear Warfare 12. The Development of Concepts for Conventional Warfare in the 1970s and 1980s Kenneth Hunt 13. Insurgency and Sub-National Violence Robert O’Neill Part 4. Political Problems in the Management and Application of Military Force 14. Clear and Future Danger: Managing Relations with the Soviet Union in the 1980s Richard Ned Lebow 15. Arms Control: The Record of the 1970s and the Outlook for the 1980s J. Owen Zurhellen, Jr. 16. Warfare and Policy: The Political Control of Military Force J.D.B. Millar Conclusions 17. Of Means and Ends Hedley Bull 18. The Determinants of Defence Policy for a Medium Military Power Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot 19. The World in the 1980s: Strategic Problems and Responses Robert O’Neill
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Robert O'Neill and D.M. Horner
Summary
This book, first published in 1981, examines Cold War developments within particular nations, fields of warfare and areas of political-military interaction. The balance between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces is also closely analysed.
