Avoiding War, Making Peace

ISBN-13: 9783319560922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 241 str.

Richard Ned LeBow

Opis

Revisiting and extending Ned Lebow s long research on conflict management and resolution, this book updates his critique of conventional and nuclear deterrence, analysis of reassurance, and the conditions where international conflicts may be amenable to resolution, or a significant reduction in tensions, offering a holistic approach.

Recenzje

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018

"This compact, accessible book pulls together a lifetime of work by Lebow, the distinguished critic of deterrence theory. ... This will be essential reading for any scholar of international security, especially relevant in light of North Korea's nuclear brinksmanship. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students through professionals." (P. Rutland, Choice, Vol. 55 (7), March, 2018)

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Generational Learning and Foreign Policy.- Chapter 3: Deterrence: A Political and Psychological Critique.- Chapter 4: Lessons of World War I.- Chapter 5: Lessons of the Cold War.- Chapter 6: How are Conflicts Resolved?.- Chapter 7: Conclusion. 

O autorze

Richard Ned Lebow is Professor of International Political Theory at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK, and Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College, US.

Blurb

‘Ned Lebow is one of the most energetic, challenging and innovative writers on international relations. His arguments are always original and thought provoking.'  

–Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London, UK

 ‘Ned Lebow is one of the greatest IR scholars of the last half century, and some of his greatest contributions have been to our understanding of how best to manage and prevent international crises and conflicts’

 –Jacques Hymans, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California, USA

This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow’s decades’ long research on conflict management and resolution. It updates his critique of conventional and nuclear deterrence, analysis of reassurance, and the conditions in which international conflicts may be amenable to resolution, or failing that, a significant reduction in tensions. This text offers a holistic approach to conflict management and resolution by exploring interactions among deterrence, reassurance, and diplomacy, and how they might most effectively be staged and combined.