Avoiding War, Making Peace

This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow's decades' long research on conflict management and resolution. It updates his critique of conventional and nuclear deterrence, analysis of reassurance, and the conditions in which international conflicts may be amenable to resolution, or failing that, a significant reduction in tensions. This text offers a holistic approach to conflict management and resolution by exploring interactions among deterrence, reassurance, and diplomacy, and how they might most effectively be staged and combined.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Generational Learning and Foreign Policy.- Chapter 3: Deterrence: A Political and Psychological Critique.- Chapter 4: Lessons of World War I.- Chapter 5: Lessons of the Cold War.- Chapter 6: How are Conflicts Resolved?.- Chapter 7: Conclusion. 

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
“This compact, accessible book pulls together a lifetime of work by Lebow, the distinguished critic of deterrence theory. … This will be essential reading for any scholar of international security, especially relevant in light of North Korea’s nuclear brinksmanship. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students through professionals.” (P. Rutland, Choice, Vol. 55 (7), March, 2018)

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
"This compact, accessible book pulls together a lifetime of work by Lebow, the distinguished critic of deterrence theory. ... This will be essential reading for any scholar of international security, especially relevant in light of North Korea's nuclear brinksmanship. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students through professionals." (P. Rutland, Choice, Vol. 55 (7), March, 2018)

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ned Lebow
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2017
• EAN: 9783319560922
• ISBN: 978-3-31-956092-2
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 356 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 241 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Internationale Beziehungen, Verstehen, B, Peace, Conflict Studies, Political Science, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, International Relations, Political Science and International Studies, International Relations Theory, Nuclear weapons, Peace studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Politics and International Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, causes of war, lessons from the First World War, motivational psychology, power transition theory, threat-based strategies, lessons from the Cold War