Research Catalog

Title

Psychology and deterrence / Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein, with contributions by Patrick M. Morgan and Jack L. Snyder.

Author

Jervis, Robert, 1940-2021

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1985.

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Additional Authors

• Lebow, Richard Ned
• Stein, Janice Gross

Description

x, 270 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.

Series Statement

Perspectives on security

Uniform Title

Perspectives on security.

Alternative Title

Psychology & deterrence

Subject

Deterrence (Strategy) > Psychological aspects

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 233-262.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : approach and assumptions / Robert Jervis -- Perceiving and coping with threat / Robert Jervis -- Calculation, miscalculation and conventional deterrence I : the view from Cairo / Janice Gross Stein-- Calculation, miscalculation and conventional deterrence II : the view from Jerusalem / Janice Gross Stein --Miscalculation in the South Atlantic : the origins of the Falklands War / Richard Ned Lebow -- Saving face for the sake of deterrence / Patrick M. Morgan -- Perceptions of the security dilemma in 1914 / Jack L. Snyder -- The deterrence deadlock : is there a way out? / Richard Ned Lebow -- Conclusions / Richard Ned Lebow.

ISBN

0801832772 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^85008060^

OCLC

12080021

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library