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The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction /

In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured British policy accordingly. This plan was a failure, chiefly because Hitler was not a statesman who would ultimately conform to familiar norms. Chamber...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Payne, Keith B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cold War deterrence theory and practice
  • Why the Cold War deterrence framework is inadequate
  • Cold War deterrence thought in the post-Cold War world
  • The dilemma of popular usage and a new direction
  • Testing the deterrence framework
  • The new deterrence framework, evidence, and misplaced confidence
  • Lessons of this case study.