- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
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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)
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-37
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Generational Learning and Foreign Policy
Pages 39-64
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Deterrence: A Political and Psychological Critique
Pages 65-93
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Lessons of World War I
Pages 95-127
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Lessons of the Cold War
Pages 129-160
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Avoiding War, Making Peace
- Authors
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- Richard Ned Lebow
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-56093-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-56093-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-56092-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 241
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
