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Deterrence posits a psychological relationship, so it is strange that most analyses of it have ignored decision makers' emotions, perceptions, and calculations and have instead relied on deductive logic based on the premise that people are highly rational. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
perceptual security dilemma, structural security dilemma, unmotivated biases, deterrence deadlock, miscalculated escalation, tactical indicators, deterrence equation, aerial capability, deterrence failure, deterrence theory, deterrent strategy, when deterrence, successful deterrence, cognitive predispositions, conventional deterrence, deterrence threats, offensive advantage, rationality postulate, defensive avoidance, deterrence policies, lesser commitments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, World War, Buenos Aires, President Sadat, Falkland Islands, New York, South Atlantic, Middle East, South Georgia, Eastern Europe, General Ze'ira, Latin America, Port Stanley, Foreign Office, Lord Carrington, President Nasser, Janice Gross Stein, Robert Jervis, Western Europe, Cold War, House of Commons, Pearl Harbor, Richard Ned Lebow, Southeast Asia New!
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Deterrence posits a psychological relationship, so it is strange that most analyses of it have ignored decision makers' emotions, perceptions, and calculations and have instead relied on deductive logic based on the premise that people are highly rational. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
perceptual security dilemma, structural security dilemma, unmotivated biases, deterrence deadlock, miscalculated escalation, tactical indicators, deterrence equation, aerial capability, deterrence failure, deterrence theory, deterrent strategy, when deterrence, successful deterrence, cognitive predispositions, conventional deterrence, deterrence threats, offensive advantage, rationality postulate, defensive avoidance, deterrence policies, lesser commitments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, World War, Buenos Aires, President Sadat, Falkland Islands, New York, South Atlantic, Middle East, South Georgia, Eastern Europe, General Ze'ira, Latin America, Port Stanley, Foreign Office, Lord Carrington, President Nasser, Janice Gross Stein, Robert Jervis, Western Europe, Cold War, House of Commons, Pearl Harbor, Richard Ned Lebow, Southeast Asia New!
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- Deterrence in American Foreign Policy by Alexander George on 12 pages
- Conflict Among Nations: Bargaining, Decision Making, and System Structure in International Crises by Glenn H. Snyder on 10 pages
- International Polictics 2nd by Robert Art & Robert Jervis on 9 pages
- Deterrence Theory Revisited by Robert Jervis on 8 pages
- Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Center for International Affairs at Harv) by Robert Jervis on 6 pages
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- The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Robert Jervis on 14 pages
- Rogue Regimes: Terrorism and Proliferation by Prof. Raymond Tanter on 8 pages
- The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars (Studies in Interdisciplinary History) by Robert I. Rotberg on 7 pages
- Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War: Volume II (Behavior, Society, & Nuclear War) by Philip E. Tetlock on 5 pages
- The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction by Keith B. Payne on 5 pages
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