The use of force : military power and international politics / edited by Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz.
| Other author | Art, Robert J. |
| Other author | Waltz, Kenneth N. (Kenneth Neal), 1924-2013. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 6th ed. |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2004. |
| Description | xi, 483 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The fungibility of force / Robert J. Art -- The sources of military doctrine / Barry R. Posen -- Offense, Defense, and the causes of war / Stephen Van Evera -- Coercive diplomacy / Alexander L. George -- International terrorism / Brian M. Jenkins -- The unimpressive record of atomic diplomacy / McGeorge Bundy -- The utility of nuclear deterrence / Robert Jervis -- Nuclear myths and political realities / Kenneth N. Waltz -- The cult of the offensive in 1914 / Jack Snyder -- Hitler and the Blitzkrieg strategy / John J. Mearsheimer -- Japan's fatal blunder / George Sansom -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Louis Morton -- The Korean War / Morton H. Halperin -- The Cuban Missile Crisis / David A. Welch, James G. Blight and Bruce J. Allyn -- Implementing flexible response : Vietnam as a test case / John Lewis Gaddis -- Coercive diplomacy in the Balkans / Steven L. Burg -- The Afghani war : a flawed masterpiece / Michael E. O'Hanlon -- From preponderance to offshore balancing / Christopher Layne -- The strategy of selective engagement / Robert J. Art -- America's imperial ambition / G. John Ikenberry -- Missile defence and American ambitions / Victor A. Utgoff -- Missile defenses and the multiplication of nuclear weapons / Kenneth N. Waltz -- What if Iraq had had nuclear weapons? / Barry R. Posen -- Nuclear instability in South Asia / Scott D. Sagan -- Nuclear stability in South Asia / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars / Chaim Kaufmann -- Military responses to refugee disasters / Barry R. Posen -- The critical barrier to civil war settlement / Barbara F. Walter -- The changing face of terror / Walter Laqueur -- Lessons from fighting terrorism in Southern Asia / Brahma Chellaney -- America's Achilles' heel : nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorism and covert attack / Richard A. Falkenrath, Robert D. Newman and Bradley A. Thayer -- Dealing with terrorists / Paul R. Pillar. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2003046650 |
| ISBN | 0742525562 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0742525570 (pbk. : alk. paper) |