Resolving Security Dilemmas

Author : Brian Frederking
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351812246
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resolving Security Dilemmas written by Brian Frederking and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published 2000: The book applies constructivist arguments about culture, norms and identity to explain the superpower negotiations that produced the INF Treaty. It contributes to the constructivist research program in two ways. First, it develops a speech act model of social interaction to illustrate constructivist arguments and second, it develops a constructivist theory of security dilemmas that suggests practical ways to resolve them. The substantive conclusion of the book is that the dominant understanding of the end of the Cold War (the buildup argument) is not correct as it advocates policies that tend to perpetuate conflicts. Instead this book argues that the 'new thinking' explanation is more coherent and suggests improved practical ways to resolve other security dilemmas.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597976547
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Security Dilemmas written by Colin S. Gray and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary primer on the leading arguments about U.S. national security, National Security Dilemmas addresses the major challenges and opportunities that are live-issue areas for American policymakers and strategists today. Colin S. Gray provides an in-depth analysis of a policy and strategy for deterrence; the long-term U.S. bid to transform its armed forces' capabilities, with particular reference to strategic surprise, in the face of many great uncertainties; the difficulty of understanding and exploiting the challenge of revolutionary change in warfare; the problems posed by enemies who fight using irregular methods; and the awesome dilemmas for U.S. policy over the options to wage preventive and preemptive warfare. With forty years' experience as a strategist, within and outside of government, Gray uses a problem-solving motif throughout the book, suggesting solutions to the challenges he identifies. The book's master narrative is that the United States must take a more considered strategic approach to its security dilemmas. Too often, the country's leaders decide on a policy and then move to take action, all the while neglecting to devise a plan that would connect its political purposes to military means. While many of Gray's judgments here are critical of current ideas and behavior, he crafted them as helpful guides should planners adopt them when revising policies and approaches. Strategy is a practical matter; truly it is the zone wherein theory meets practice. This text can be used as an expert guide to the major national security challenges of today. It both explains the structure of these challenges and provides useful answers. With a foreword by Lt. Gen. Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (Ret.), Bren Chair, Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia.

Author : Stephen M. Saideman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134045042
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intra-State Conflict, Governments and Security written by Stephen M. Saideman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to understand the central role of governments in intra-state conflicts.The book explores how the government in any society plays two pivotal roles: as a deterrent against those who would use violence; and as a potential danger to the society. These roles come into conflict with each other, as those governments that can best deter

Author : A. Collins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 033398563X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Security Dilemmas of Southeast Asia written by A. Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Security Dilemmas of Southeast Asia utilises a key security concept to examine one of the most dramatic regions of the world. Focusing on ethnic tensions, intra-ASEAN rivalries and the emergence of Chinese hegemony, the security dilemma is used to provide insights into a wide range of the region's contemporary security issues. In addition, the book expounds upon some of the new uses of the security dilemma, exploring both its applicability to ethnic tensions and a new variant, a state-induced security dilemma.

Author : Robert Jervis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma written by Robert Jervis and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Harman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250758785
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insanity Defense written by Jane Harman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended. Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. As a nation, America has cycled through the same defense and intelligence issues since the end of the Cold War. In Insanity Defense, Congresswoman Jane Harman chronicles how four administrations have failed to confront some of the toughest national security policy issues and suggests achievable fixes that can move us toward a safer future. The reasons for these inadequacies are varied and complex, in some cases going back generations. American leaders didn’t realize soon enough that the institutions and habits formed during the Cold War were no longer effective in an increasingly multi-power world transformed by digital technology and riven by ethno-sectarian conflict. Nations freed from the fear of the Soviets no longer deferred to America as before. Yet the United States settled into a comfortable, at times arrogant, position as the lone superpower. At the same time our governing institutions, which had stayed resilient, however imperfectly, through multiple crises, began their own unraveling. Congresswoman Harman was there—as witness, legislator, exhorter, enabler, dissident and, eventually, outside advisor and commentator. Insanity Defense is an insider’s account of decades of American national security—of its failures and omissions—and a roadmap to making significant progress on solving these perennially difficult issues.

Author : Avner Yaniv
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dilemmas of Security written by Avner Yaniv and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essential reading for anyone interested in Israel's conflict with its neighbors"--Middle East Journal. "Israel's experience in Lebanon--invasion, frustration, retrenchment, and collapse--is recounted with attention to detail and a command of the material unmatched in any other book....The real contribution of the book is not so much in the author's specific conclusions as in the way in which his knowledge and his analysis illuminate the entire subject"--Foreign Affairs.

Author : Frank P. Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135973857
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeland Security Dilemma written by Frank P. Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the paradox of the ‘security dilemma’ in International Relations, as applied to the post-9/11 context of homeland security. The book's central argument can be summed up by the following counterintuitive thesis: the more security you have, the more security you will need. It argues that enhancing security does not make terrorism more likely, but rather it raises public expectations and amplifies public outrage after subsequent failures. The book contests that this dilemma will continue to shape American, Canadian and British domestic and international security priorities for decades. In exploring the key policy implications resulting from this, the book highlights the difficulty in finding a solution to this paradox, as the most rational and logical policy options are part of the problem. This book will be of interest to students of Homeland Security, Security Studies, US politics, and IR in general.

Author : Ken Booth
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 0333587448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Security Dilemma written by Ken Booth and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new contribution to the study of internatioal politics provides the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the "security dilemma," the phrase used to describe the mistrust and fear which is often thought to be the inevitable consequence of living in a world of sovereign states. By exploring the theory and practice of the security dilemma through the prisms of fear, cooperation and trust, it considers whether the security dilemma can be mitigated or even transcended analyzing a wide range of historical and contemporary cases

Author : G. Wiseman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596371
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concepts of Non-Provocative Defence written by G. Wiseman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the viability of non-provocative defence - the controversial idea that defensive military policies and practices reduce the risk of wars and provide a viable basis for defending a society should war break out. Drawing on case studies from Europe, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and Asia-Pacific, the author concludes that non-provocative defence concepts remain relevant and that they can help in deterring, conducting, and settling wars.