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Nuclear Asymmetry and Deterrence - Theory, Policy and History (Paperback)
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Nuclear Asymmetry and Deterrence - Theory, Policy and History (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
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This book offers a broader theory of nuclear deterrence and
examines the way nuclear and conventional deterrence interact with
non-military factors in a series of historical case studies. The
existing body of literature largely leans toward the analytical
primacy of nuclear deterrence and it is often implicitly assumed
that nuclear weapons are so important that, when they are present,
other factors need not be studied. This book addresses this
omission. It develops a research framework that incorporates the
military aspects of deterrence, both nuclear and conventional,
together with various perceptual factors, international
circumstances, domestic politics, and norms. This framework is then
used to re-examine five historical crises that brought two nuclear
countries to the brink of war: the hostile asymmetric nuclear
relations between the United States and China in the early 1960s;
between the Soviet Union and China in the late 1960s; between
Israel and Iraq in 1977-1981; between the United States and North
Korea in 1992-1994; and, finally, between the United States and the
Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The main
empirical findings challenge the common expectation that the threat
of nuclear retaliation represents the ultimate deterrent. In fact,
it can be said, with a high degree of confidence, that it was
rather the threat of conventional retaliation that acted as a major
stabilizer. This book will be of much interest to students of
nuclear proliferation, cold war studies, deterrence theory,
security studies and IR in general.
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