Avoiding War, Making Peace
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‘Ned Lebow is one of the most energetic, challenging and innovative writers on international relations. His arguments are always original and thought provoking.'
–Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London, UK
‘Ned Lebow is one of the greatest IR scholars of the last half century, and some of his greatest contributions have been to our understanding of how best to manage and prevent international crises and conflicts’
–Jacques Hymans, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California, USA
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 holisticapproach to conflict management and resolution by exploring interactions among deterrence, reassurance, and diplomacy, and how they might most effectively be staged and combined.
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.
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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Richard Ned Lebow
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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
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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)()