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Cold War Analytical Structures and the Post Post-War World - A Critique of Deterrence Theory (Hardcover, New)
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Cold War Analytical Structures and the Post Post-War World - A Critique of Deterrence Theory (Hardcover, New)
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This volume takes a perspective on the debate over deterrence
theory that has never been used before. Other books either address
the differences between the two competing schools of thought--those
who support Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) and those who support
nuclear warfighting--or examine particular policies from within the
perspective of one or the other school of thought. Cori Dauber
examines deterrence theory at a structural level, which allows a
focus on the similarities between the major perspectives on nuclear
strategic doctrine. By examining such issues as validity standards
and the evaluation of evidence, Dauber is able to assess deterrence
as a theory of persuasion, and to examine the way deterrence
discourse so shapes the thinking of policy makers and analysts that
it still drives our analysis of alternatives, even in the
post-Soviet era. Dauber concludes that deterrence is a system
designed to use weapons capabilities as a form of non-verbal
communication with an Other--for the last forty years, the Soviet
Other. Understanding these rhetorical structures and the way they
function is essential in predicting the restrictions that
deterrence places on the way the United States responds to foreign
nations. Cold War Analytical Structures and the Post Post-War World
serves as a model for how scholars in argument and persuasion can
apply their methods to real world situations.
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