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Nuclear Crisis Management : A Dangerous Illusion / Richard Ned Lebow.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security AffairsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501738722
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.02/170973 23/eng/20231120
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Dangerous Illusion -- Three Sequences to War -- 2. Preemption -- 3. Loss of Control -- 4. Miscalculated Escalation -- Conclusions -- 5. Toward Crisis Stability -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Richard Ned Lebow spells out the implications of historical experience for American perceptions of the place of crisis management in superpower strategic relations. identifying and discussing three reasons for the outbreak of World War I—preemption, loss of control, and miscalculated escalation—he argues that all three are equally serious threats to peace and survival. He documents how psychological stress in past crises has induced erratic, dysfunctional behavior from national leaders, even paralysis. A nuclear crisis, he argues, would generate even more acute stress because of the unprecedented destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the extreme time pressure that leaders are likely to face.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Dangerous Illusion -- Three Sequences to War -- 2. Preemption -- 3. Loss of Control -- 4. Miscalculated Escalation -- Conclusions -- 5. Toward Crisis Stability -- Notes -- Index

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Richard Ned Lebow spells out the implications of historical experience for American perceptions of the place of crisis management in superpower strategic relations. identifying and discussing three reasons for the outbreak of World War I—preemption, loss of control, and miscalculated escalation—he argues that all three are equally serious threats to peace and survival. He documents how psychological stress in past crises has induced erratic, dysfunctional behavior from national leaders, even paralysis. A nuclear crisis, he argues, would generate even more acute stress because of the unprecedented destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the extreme time pressure that leaders are likely to face.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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