Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age

by T.V. Paul

Book Overview

As the costs of a preemptive foreign policy in Iraq have become clear, strategies such as containment and deterrence have been gaining currency among policy makers. This comprehensive book offers an agenda for the contemporary practice of deterrence--especially as it applies to nuclear weapons--in an increasingly heterogeneous global and political setting.

Moving beyond the precepts of traditional deterrence theory, this groundbreaking volume...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226650030
• ISBN13: 9780226650036
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"