Military - Strategy, General & Miscellaneous - Politics & Government, Arms Control & Disarmament, International Cooperation
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Overview
Loo (Revolutions in Military Affairs Programme, Nanyang Technological U. Singapore) explains that the literature on strategic stability understands it as a condition in which either war between adversarial states does not occur, or an existing war does not escalate. But he finds that the literature has tended to conflate strategic stability and the causes of war, thus reducing strategic stability to overly simplistic notions of arms race stability and crisis stability as the two key pillars. This may work well enough between nuclear states, but not between conventional states, he argues, and strategic stability needs to be understood as a condition in which policy-makers are not pressured into making sudden and reactive shifts from extant non-violent to violent strategies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
June 1, 2005
Publisher
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Pages
252
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780773460935