Thomas Schelling And The Nuclear Age

Author : Robert Ayson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000159127

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Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age by Robert Ayson Pdf

An illuminating insight into the work of Thomas Schelling, one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States' early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most distinctive voices in Western strategy. This book shows how Schelling's thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions of the Cold War. In a demonstration that ideas can be just as significant as superpower politics, Robert Ayson traces the way this Harvard University professor built a unique intellectual framework using a mix of social-scientific reasoning, from economics to social theory and psychology. As such, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the intellectual history which underpins classical thinking on nuclear strategy and arms control - thinking which still has an enormous influence in the early twenty-first century.

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300253481

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Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling Pdf

“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new introduction to the work shows how Schelling’s framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.

Author : Phil Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015057940523

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Crisis Management by Phil Williams Pdf

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300246742

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Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling Pdf

"This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing."--Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities--real or imagined--are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows how Schelling's framework--conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction--still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UCSD:31822016831935

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The Conventional Status of Nuclear Weapons by Thomas C. Schelling Pdf

Author : Andrew Richter
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840422

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Avoiding Armageddon by Andrew Richter Pdf

Drawing on previously classified government records, Richter reveals that Canadian defence officials independently came to strategic understandings of the most critical issues of the nuclear age regarding the use of force in resolving disputes. Canadian appreciation of deterrence, arms control, and strategic stability differed conceptually from the US models. Similarly, Canadian thinking on the controversial issues of air defence and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons was primarily influenced by decidedly Canadian interests. This book illustrates Canada's considerable latitude for independent defence thinking while providing key historical information that helps make sense of the contemporary Canadian defence debate.

Author : Dick van Lente
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137086181

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The Nuclear Age in Popular Media by Dick van Lente Pdf

The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.

Author : John Baylis,John Garnett
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024768650

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Makers of Nuclear Strategy by John Baylis,John Garnett Pdf

This book deals with the very foundations of contemporary strategic studies, in that it examines the ideas of nine leading strategic thinkers over the past four decades within the context of current debates on nuclear strategy.

Author : Stephanie Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781596916173

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In Mortal Hands by Stephanie Cooke Pdf

A provocative history of nuclear power explores the pros and cons of nuclear energy as a power source that has given way to international tension and weapons development, in a critical assessment that also considers nuclear energy's possible role in countering global warming.

Author : Paul Bracken
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429945042

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The Second Nuclear Age by Paul Bracken Pdf

A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable." The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age. In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises. Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics.

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0674840313

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The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling Pdf

Analyzes the nature of international disagreements and conflict resolution in terms of game theory and non-zero-sum games.

Author : Shlomo Aronson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791495346

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The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East by Shlomo Aronson Pdf

Based on research from an array of American, Arab, British, French, German, and Israeli sources, this book provides a nuclear history of the world's most explosive region. Most significantly, it gives an exposition of Israel's acquisition and political use, or nonuse, of nuclear weapons as a central factor of its foreign policy in the 1960-1991 period. In stressing the factor of nuclear weapons, the author highlights an often-neglected aspect of Israeli security policy. This is the first interpretation of the historical development of nuclear doctrine in the Middle East that assesses the strategic implications of opacity—Israel's use of suggestion, rather than open acknowledgment, that it possesses nuclear weapons. Aronson discusses the strategic thinking of Israel, the Arab countries, the U.S., the former Soviet Union, and other countries and connects Israeli strategies for war, peace, territories, and the political economy with the use of nuclear deterrence. The author approaches the development of Israeli doctrines on nuclear weapons and defense in general within a large matrix that includes the United States; Israeli perceptions of Arab history, culture, and psychology; and Israeli perceptions of Israel's own history, culture, and psychology. He also deals with Arab perceptions of Israel's nuclear program and with Arab and Iranian incentives to go nuclear. In addition, he discusses at length the importance of nuclear factors in the conduct of the Persian Gulf War and examines the implications of the decline of the former Soviet Union for arms control and peace in the Middle East.

Author : Sudha Raman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Deterrance (strategy).
ISBN : 8170492696

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Nuclear Strategy by Sudha Raman Pdf

Deterrence Is A Policy That Fashions A Situation Whereby War Can Be Limited If Not Averted. It Rests On The Capability Of A Nation To Deter The Enemy, Ensure That The Credibility Of The Threat Is Maintained, And Respected, And Use That Capability When Necessary. Nuclear Weapons Deter, But There Is The Pursuit For The Absolute Means To Seek Foolproof Deterrence. Herein Lies The Dilemma. The Stakes Involved In A Nuclear War And The Use Of These Weapons Stimulate Varied And Worried Debates.To Justify A War, Arguments Tend To Get Grounded On Just War The Doctrine Of Just War Is Concerned Not With What Men Did In War But What They Ought To Do Or Refrain From Doing; The Jus Ad Bellum Or Justification Of War And The Jus In Bello Or The Limitation Of War.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1555873316

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The Second Nuclear Age by Colin S. Gray Pdf

The author takes issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately with weapons of mass destruction, arguing that the risks are ever more serious.

Author : Matthew Kroenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190849184

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The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy by Matthew Kroenig Pdf

For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation capability, no sane leader would intentionally launch a nuclear attack against it, and nuclear deterrence will hold. According to this theory, possessing more weapons than necessary for a second-strike capability is illogical. This argument is reasonable, but, when compared to the empirical record, it raises an important puzzle. Empirically, we see that the United States has always maintained a nuclear posture that is much more robust than a mere second-strike capability. In The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy, Matthew Kroenig challenges the conventional wisdom and explains why a robust nuclear posture, above and beyond a mere second-strike capability, contributes to a state's national security goals. In fact, when a state has a robust nuclear weapons force, such a capability reduces its expected costs in a war, provides it with bargaining leverage, and ultimately enhances nuclear deterrence. This book provides a novel theoretical explanation for why military nuclear advantages translate into geopolitical advantages. In so doing, it helps resolve one of the most-intractable puzzles in international security studies. Buoyed by an innovative thesis and a vast array of historical and quantitative evidence, The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy will force scholars to reconsider their basic assumptions about the logic of nuclear deterrence.