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The post-imperial age : the great powers and the wider world
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ISBN: 0582227194 Year: 1994 Volume: 2 Publisher: London New York Longman

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Crisis diplomacy : the great powers since the mid-nineteenth century
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ISBN: 0521459877 0521453925 0511559119 Year: 1994 Volume: 35 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Although much has been written on international crises, the literature suffers from a lack of historical depth, and a proliferation of competing theoretical frameworks. Through case studies drawing on the rich historical experience of crisis diplomacy, James Richardson offers an integrated analysis based on a critical assessment of the main theoretical approaches. Due weight is given to systemic and structural factors, but also to the specific historical factors of each case, and to theories which do not presuppose rationality as well as those which do. Crisis diplomacy the major political choices made by decision makers, and their strategies, judgments and misjudgments - is found to play a crucial role in each of the case studies. This broad historical inquiry is especially timely when the ending of the Cold War has removed the settled parameters within which the superpowers conducted their crisis diplomacy.

Asymmetric conflicts : war initiation by weaker powers
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ISBN: 0521466210 0521451175 0511598742 Year: 1994 Volume: 33 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines a question generally neglected in the study of international relations: why does a militarily and economically less powerful state initiate conflict against a relatively strong state? T. V. Paul analyses this phenomenon by focusing on the strategic and political considerations, domestic and international, which influence a weaker state to initiate war against a more powerful adversary. The key argument of deterrence theory is that the military superiority of the status quo power, coupled with a credible retaliatory threat, will prevent attack by challengers. The author challenges this assumption by examining six twentieth-century asymmetric wars, from the Japanese offensive against Russia in 1904 to the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982. The book's findings have wide implications for the study of war, power, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, strategy, arms races, and alliances.


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La puissance internationale
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ISBN: 2100023667 2100023657 9782100023660 Year: 1994 Volume: *3 Publisher: Paris : Dunod,

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