Overview
Brings together four decades of research on conflict management and resolution
Provides an expanded and updated analysis of the role of reassurance in reducing conflict
Offers a holistic approach that combines deterrence, reassurance, and diplomacy
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- conflict management
- nuclear deterrence
- conventional deterrence
- reassurance
- diplomacy
- war avoidance
- peace negotiations
- conflict resolution
- Anglo-French relations
- Egyptian-Israeli relations
- Soviet-American relations
- nuclear weapons
- causes of war
- power transition theory
- motivational psychology
- lessons from the Cold War
- lessons from the First World War
- threat-based strategies
About this book
This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow’s decades’ long research on conflict management and resolution. It updates his critique of conventional and nuclear deterrence, analysis of reassurance, and the conditions in which international conflicts may be amenable to resolution, or failing that, a significant reduction in tensions. This text offers a holistic approach to conflict management and resolution by exploring interactions among deterrence, reassurance, and diplomacy, and how they might most effectively be staged and combined.
Reviews
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
“This compact, accessible book pulls together a lifetime of work by Lebow, the distinguished critic of deterrence theory. … This will be essential reading for any scholar of international security, especially relevant in light of North Korea’s nuclear brinksmanship. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students through professionals.” (P. Rutland, Choice, Vol. 55 (7), March, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Richard Ned Lebow is Professor of International Political Theory at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK, and Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College, US.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Avoiding War, Making Peace
Authors: Richard Ned Lebow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56093-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56092-2Published: 12 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56093-9Published: 23 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 241
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, International Relations Theory