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Now available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.

Trade Review
A provocative collection. -- David C. Unger New York Times

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Approach and Assumptions
Chapter 2. Perceiving and Coping with Threat
Chapter 3. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence I: The View from Cairo
Chapter 4. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence II: The View from Jerusalem
Chapter 5. Miscalculation in the South Atlantic: The Origins of the Falklands War
Chapter 6. Saving Face for the Sake of Detterence
Chapter 7. Perceptions of the Security Dilemma in 1914
Chapter 8. The Deterrence Deadlock: Is There a Way Out?
Chapter 9. Conclusions
Notes
Index

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 27/05/1989
      ISBN13: 9780801838422, 978-0801838422
      ISBN10: 0801838428
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      International relations Politics and government Warfare and defence

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Now available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.

      Trade Review
      A provocative collection. -- David C. Unger New York Times

      Table of Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgments
      Chapter 1. Introduction: Approach and Assumptions
      Chapter 2. Perceiving and Coping with Threat
      Chapter 3. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence I: The View from Cairo
      Chapter 4. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence II: The View from Jerusalem
      Chapter 5. Miscalculation in the South Atlantic: The Origins of the Falklands War
      Chapter 6. Saving Face for the Sake of Detterence
      Chapter 7. Perceptions of the Security Dilemma in 1914
      Chapter 8. The Deterrence Deadlock: Is There a Way Out?
      Chapter 9. Conclusions
      Notes
      Index

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