Product Description: Conflict resolution and promotion of regional cooperation in South Asia has assumed a new urgency in the aftermath of the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, and underlined by the outbreak of fighting in Kargil in 1999, full mobilization on the border during most of 2002, and continued low-intensity warfare and terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir...read more

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Product Description: A collection of essays which emerged from an international symposium of modern deterrence strategy held in 1991 at Tel Aviv University, in the direct aftermath of the Gulf War.

Product Description: There has been an increasing realization that the arms race cannot be sustained by any political or economic rationale. The dramatic improvement in the relationship between the US and the USSR has had a global ripple effect. This book, derived from papers presented at a 1989 UNIDIR symposium in New York, is divided into 6 parts which define defensive strategies and examine their credibility; examine these strategies in the European bipolar context; discuss the situation in North East and South West Asia and the possible applications of defensive strategies; examine conflict situations in the Middle East and Central America...read more

Product Description: Examining deterrence theory through a multidisciplinary search for evidence on its validity, this collection of essays explore the conditions under which a strong threat of punishment produces restraint in an adversary, as classic deterrence theory predicts, or else leads to undesired military escalation...read more