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Strategic Thinking, Deterrence and the US Ballistic Missile Defense Project - From Truman to Obama (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Strategic Thinking, Deterrence and the US Ballistic Missile Defense Project - From Truman to Obama (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A systematic critical survey of American strategic thinking and the
strategic culture in which it is formed. In particular, this book
seeks to interrogate the theory and strategy of nuclear deterrence,
and its relationship to the concept of missile defence. Drawing
widely on the theoretical literature in international relations and
strategic studies, it identifies the key groups that have competed
over America's nuclear policy post-1945 and examines how the
concept of missile defence went through a process of gestation and
intellectual contestation, leading to its eventual legitimization
in the late 1990s. Steff sheds light on the individuals, groups,
institutions and processes that led to the decision by the Bush
administration to deploy a national missile defence shield.
Additionally, Steff systematically examines the impact deployment
had on the calculations of Russia and China. In the process he
explains that their reactions under the Bush administration have
continued into the Obama era, revealing that a new great power
security dilemma has broken out. This, Steff shows, has led to a
decline in great power relations as a consequence.
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