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Technology has always played a central role in international
politics; it shapes the ways states fight during wartime and
compete during peacetime. Today, rapid advancements have
contributed to a widespread sense that the world is again on the
precipice of a new technological era. Emerging technologies have
inspired much speculative commentary, but academic scholarship can
improve the discussion with disciplined theory-building and
rigorous empirics. This book aims to contribute to the debate by
exploring the role of technology – both military and non-military
– in shaping international security. Specifically, the
contributors to this edited volume aim to generate new theoretical
insights into the relationship between technology and strategic
stability, test them with sound empirical methods, and derive their
implications for the coming technological age. This book is very
novel in its approach. It covers a wide range of technologies, both
old and new, rather than emphasizing a single technology.
Furthermore, this volume looks at how new technologies might affect
the broader dynamics of the international system rather than
limiting the focus to a stability. The contributions to this volume
walk readers through the likely effects of emerging technologies at
each phase of the conflict process. The chapters begin with
competition in peacetime, move to deterrence and coercion, and then
explore the dynamics of crises, the outbreak of conflict, and war
escalation in an environment of emerging technologies. The chapters
in this book, except for the Introduction and the Conclusion, were
originally published in the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most
strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence
- using nuclear threats to prevent attacks against the nation's
territory and interests. But an often overlooked question is
whether nuclear threats can also coerce adversaries to relinquish
possessions or change their behavior. Can nuclear weapons be used
to blackmail other countries? The prevailing wisdom is that nuclear
weapons are useful for coercion, but this book shows that this view
is badly misguided. Nuclear weapons are useful mainly for
deterrence and self-defense, not for coercion. The authors evaluate
the role of nuclear weapons in several foreign policy contexts and
present a trove of new quantitative and historical evidence that
nuclear weapons do not help countries achieve better results in
coercive diplomacy. The evidence is clear: the benefits of
possessing nuclear weapons are almost exclusively defensive, not
offensive.
Technology has always played a central role in international
politics; it shapes the ways states fight during wartime and
compete during peacetime. Today, rapid advancements have
contributed to a widespread sense that the world is again on the
precipice of a new technological era. Emerging technologies have
inspired much speculative commentary, but academic scholarship can
improve the discussion with disciplined theory-building and
rigorous empirics. This book aims to contribute to the debate by
exploring the role of technology - both military and non-military -
in shaping international security. Specifically, the contributors
to this edited volume aim to generate new theoretical insights into
the relationship between technology and strategic stability, test
them with sound empirical methods, and derive their implications
for the coming technological age. This book is very novel in its
approach. It covers a wide range of technologies, both old and new,
rather than emphasizing a single technology. Furthermore, this
volume looks at how new technologies might affect the broader
dynamics of the international system rather than limiting the focus
to a stability. The contributions to this volume walk readers
through the likely effects of emerging technologies at each phase
of the conflict process. The chapters begin with competition in
peacetime, move to deterrence and coercion, and then explore the
dynamics of crises, the outbreak of conflict, and war escalation in
an environment of emerging technologies. The chapters in this book,
except for the Introduction and the Conclusion, were originally
published in the Journal of Strategic Studies.
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