1st Edition

Deterrence and the New Global Security Environment

Edited By Ian R. Kenyon, John Simpson Copyright 2006
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of papers rigorously examines the current place of deterrence in international security relations, delivering the best of contemporary thinking. This is a special issue of the leading journal Contemporary Security Policy . It shows how and why nuclear deterrence was the central organizing mechanism for international security relations in the second half of the twentieth... Read more

Foreword  Introduction  1. Deterrence and Deterrability  2. The Emergence of Stability: Deterrence in Motion and Deterrence Reconstructed  3. Deterrence Asymmetry and other Challenges to Small Nuclear Forces  4. Deterrence and Asymmetry: Non-State Actors and Mass Casualty Terrorism  5. The New Indeterminacy of Deterrence and Missile Defence  6. United States Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty First Century  7. A Few Speculations on Russia's Deterrence Policy  8. Redefining Strategic Stability in a Changing World: A Chinese View  9. France, the United Kingdon and Deterrence in the Twenty First Century  10. Positions on Deterrence in a Non-WMD Country: The Case of Germany  11. Regional Dynamics and Deterrence: South Asia (1)  12. Regional Dynamics and Deterrence: South Asia (2)  13. Regional Dynamics and Deterrence: The Middle East  Conclusions

Biography

Kenyon, Ian R.; Simpson, John