Analyzing Soviet Strategic Arms Decisions

ISBN-13: 9780367017514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str.

Karl F. Spielmann

Opis

The importance to Western policymakers of determining the significance of Soviet strategic arms decisions is matched by the difficulty of doing so. The high stakes involved and, in many cases, the inadequacy of evidence can all too easily lead to generalizations that rest more on passionate conviction than on accepted principles of scholarly inquir

Spis treści

Other Titles of Interest -- Preface -- Introduction -- Three Decision-making Perspectives -- Perspective I: Rational Strategic Actor Decision Making -- Perspective II: Pluralistic Decision Making -- Perspective III: National Leadership Decision Making -- The Soviet Defense Decision-making Environment -- The Broader Context of Soviet Strategic Arms Decision Making -- The Dual Role of Pluralistic Elements -- Implications for the Present -- Soviet Strategic Arms Decision-making Analyses and the Action-Reaction Phenomenon -- Multiple Approaches and Future Analyses -- Appreciating the Data Problem: Sources of Obscurity -- A Multiple Approach Analysis of the SS-6 Program

O autorze

Karl F. Spielmann