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Psychology and deterrence

Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein ; with contributions by Patrick M. Morgan and Jack L. Snyder

(Perspectives on security)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, c1985

  • : pbk

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"Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition, 1989"--T.p. verso

Includes index

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Description

Now available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Approach and Assumptions Chapter 2. Perceiving and Coping with Threat Chapter 3. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence I: The View from Cairo Chapter 4. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence II: The View from Jerusalem Chapter 5. Miscalculation in the South Atlantic: The Origins of the Falklands War Chapter 6. Saving Face for the Sake of Detterence Chapter 7. Perceptions of the Security Dilemma in 1914 Chapter 8. The Deterrence Deadlock: Is There a Way Out? Chapter 9. Conclusions Notes Index

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