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Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age - Strategy as Social Science (Paperback)
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Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age - Strategy as Social Science (Paperback)
Series: Strategy and History
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This book provides an 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. The reader is shown how Thomas Schelling's continuing
fascination with 'stability' - whereby war is either prevented from
occurring in the first place or controlled before catastrophe
strikes - is the master concept to unlocking his compelling
strategic universe. possible was nothing short of revolutionary.
But for Schelling the stalemate of the Korean War could also be
found in the superpower bargain of nuclear deterrence. As this book
shows, the first glimpses of this approach pre-date Schelling's
earliest study of military problems. In fact, stability was present
when he published his very first article - on national income
economics - in the 1940s. This book is unique in placing the
development of US strategic thought in the context of a broader
history of ideas. In unwrapping Thomas Schelling's ideas, it not
only helps us understand the intellectual horsepower behind the
'golden age' of nuclear strategy, but also says much about the
evolution of American social-scientific thinking in the twentieth
century. This is the first book-length treatment of the work of
Thomas Schelling and will be essential reading for all serious
students of strategic studies, international relations and
ancillary disciplines, such as the history of the social sciences,
Cold War history and the history of ideas.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Strategy and History |
Release date: |
May 2006 |
First published: |
2004 |
Authors: |
Robert Ayson
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7146-8544-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
0-7146-8544-5 |
Barcode: |
9780714685441 |
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