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The use of force : military power and international politics / edited by Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz.
LIBRA JZ1310 .U83 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- War.
- Intervention (International law).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 483 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004]
- Contents:
- Part I Strategies for the Use of Force 1
- How Force Is Used
- 1 The Fungibility of Force / Robert J. Art 3
- 2 The Sources of Military Doctrine / Barry R. Posen 23
- 3 Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War / Stephen Van Evera 44
- 4 Coercive Diplomacy / Alexander L. George 70
- 5 International Terrorism / Brian M. Jenkins 77
- The Nuclear Revolution
- 6 The Unimpressive Record of Atomic Diplomacy / McGeorge Bundy 85
- 7 The Utility of Nuclear Deterrence / Robert Jervis 94
- 8 Nuclear Myths and Political Realities / Kenneth N. Waltz 102
- Part II Case Studies in the Use of Force 119
- The Great Power Era
- 9 The Cult of the Offensive in 1914 / Jack Snyder 121
- 10 Hitler and the Blitzkrieg Strategy / John J. Mearsheimer 138
- 11 Japan's Fatal Blunder / Sir George Sansom 153
- 12 The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb / Louis Morton 165
- The Superpower Era
- 13 The Korean War / Morton H. Halperin 181
- 14 The Cuban Missile Crisis / David A. Welch, James G. Blight, Bruce J. Allyn 197
- 15 Implementing Flexible Response: Vietnam as a Test Case / John Lewis Gaddis 221
- The Contemporary Era
- 16 Coercive Diplomacy in the Balkans / Steven L. Burg 247
- 17 The Afghani War: A Flawed Masterpiece / Michael E. O'Hanlon 270
- Part III Current Military Issues 281
- The Projection of U.S. Military Power
- 18 From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing / Christopher Layne 283
- 19 The Strategy of Selective Engagement / Robert J. Art 299
- 20 America's Imperial Ambition / G. John Ikenberry 321
- The Spread of Nuclear Weapons
- 21 Missile Defence and American Ambitions / Victor A. Utgoff 333
- 22 Missile Defenses and the Multiplication of Nuclear Weapons / Kenneth N. Waltz 347
- 23 What If Iraq Had Had Nuclear Weapons? / Barry R. Posen 353
- 24 Nuclear Instability in South Asia / Scott D. Sagan 370
- 25 Nuclear Stability in South Asia / Kenneth N. Waltz 382
- Intervention in Internal Conflicts
- 26 Intervention in Ethnic and Ideological Civil Wars / Chaim Kaufmann 394
- 27 Military Responses to Refugee Disasters / Barry R. Posen 415
- 28 The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement / Barbara F. Walter 436
- Coping with Terrorism
- 29 The Changing Face of Terror / Walter Laqueur 450
- 30 Lessons from Fighting Terrorism in Southern Asia / Brahma Chellaney 458
- 31 America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack / Richard A. Falkenrath, Robert D. Newman, Bradley A. Thayer 463
- 32 Dealing with Terrorists / Paul R. Pillar 469.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0742525562
- 0742525570
- OCLC:
- 52039593
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