The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction
In 1938, Britain's policy of appeasement toward the Third Reich was doomed because British leaders greatly misjudged Hitler's basic beliefs and thus also his behavior. Confident expectations -- built on hope instead of evidence -- were far out of line with reality.U.S. Cold War nuclear deterrence policy was similarly based on the mistaken assumption that Soviet leaders would be reasonable by Washington's standards. Keith B. Payne addresses the question of whether this assumption is adequate for the post-Cold War period. Using historical cases as evidence, and examples such as a U.S.-Chinese crisis over Taiwan, he proposes that U.S. policymake…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8131-9015-0
- EAN: 9780813190150
- Produktnummer: 37114183
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 378 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 378
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