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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

Product Description: The Soviet-American relationship encompasses a broad range of issues, but the strategic stability of that relationship is first and foremost a question of central military balance-comprehensive, and not just in nuclear forces. Yet, even as a primarily military issue, strategic stability has important political, economic, and psychological dimensions...read more

Product Description: In this timely collection, a group of distinguished scholars address some of the most basic questions about war and peace, including the causes and empirical correlates of war, the pressing problems of nuclear strategy and arms control, and various aspects of the international system, such as the nature of the postwar superpower relationship, patterns of armed conflict in the Third World, the problems of crisis management, and prospects for reform...read more

Product Description: As nuclear weapons fall into the hands of more and more nations, the danger that they will be used becomes ever more real. In June 1985, two months before the third Review conference on the Treaty on the Non-Rroliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the influential Geneva-based Groupe de Bellerive convened a Colloquium, attended by leading advisers to the superpowers, representatives of the Third World, and eminent scientists, strategists, and politicians, to discuss the subject in an unofficial setting...read more

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Product Description: The Dangers of Nuclear War: A Pugwash Symposium