Rational deterrence theory provides scholars with an explanatory framework which specifies the requirements for the success and failure of deterrence. In this book the success or failure of the deterrence theory in the Arab-Israeli wars.
Rational deterrence theory provides scholars with an explanatory framework which specifies the requirements for the success and failure of deterrence....
This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East.
The work argues that many of the problems encountered in the development of deterrence theory lay in the fact that it was developed during the Cold War, when the immediate problem it had to address was how to prevent catastrophic nuclear wars. The logic of nuclear deterrence compelled a preoccupation with the problem of stability over credibility; however, because the logic of conventional deterrence is different, the solution of the tension between...
This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East.
