Complex Deterrence - Strategy in the Global Age

Informationen zum Autor T. V. Paul is the James McGill Professor of International Relations at McGill University. Patrick M. Morgan is professor of political science and the Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California! Irvine. James J. Wirtz is acting dean at the School of International Graduate Studies and professor of national security studies at the Naval Postgraduate School. Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung 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 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.

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• Authors: T. V. Paul, T. V. (EDT)/ Morgan Paul, T. V. Morgan Paul, PAUL T V MORGAN PATRICK M WIR
• Assisted by: Patrick M. Morgan (Editor), T. V. Paul (Editor), Paul T. V. (Editor), James J. Wirtz (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780226650029
• ISBN: 978-0-226-65002-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control