Complex Deterrence
Strategy in the Global Age
- Contents
- Review Quotes

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
I Introduction
1 Complex Deterrence: An Introduction 1
T. V. Paul
II Deterrence and its Challenges
2 Three Items in One: Deterrence as Concept, Research Program, and Political Issue
Jeffrey W. Knopf
3 Rational Deterrence against “Irrational” Adversaries? No Common Knowledge
Janice Stein
III Deterrence and Nonstate Actors
4 Complex Deterrence in the Asymmetric-Warfare Era
Emanuel Adler
5 Deterring Nuclear Terrorists
S. Paul Kapur
IV Deterrence and Smaller Powers
6 Deterrence, Rogue States, and the U.S. Policy
Robert Jervis
7 Collective-Actor Deterrence
Patrick M. Morgan
8 Complexity of Deterrence among New Nuclear States: The India-Pakistan Case
Dinshaw Mistry
9 Unconventional Deterrence: How the Weak Deter the Strong
Ivan Arreguín-Toft
10 Deterrence and Compellence in Iraq, 1991–2003: Lessons for a Complex Paradigm
Frank P. Harvey and Patrick James
V Deterrence and Major Powers
11 Deterrence among Great Powers in an Era of Globalization
Patrick M. Morgan and T. V. Paul
12 The Endurance of Extended Deterrence: Continuity, Change, and Complexity in Theory and Policy
Timothy W. Crawford
13 The Revolution in Military Affairs: Impact of Emerging Technologies on Deterrence
Michel Fortmann and Stéfanie von Hlatky
Conclusions
James J. Wirtz
List of Contributors
Index
“This book is a valuable antidote to some of the more glib and prematurely pessimistic statements that get circulated about ‘the end of deterrence as we know it.’ Quite comprehensive on the theories and modes of deterrence, it is valuable for drawing together both political scientists and policy makers.”
“The use of deterrence to prevent war did not go away at the end of the Cold War; it just became more complex. This valuable book provides new insights from psychology, political science, and history to illuminate the difficulties of using deterrence against terrorists, new states with nuclear weapons, and great powers in an age of globalization.”
“Deterrence and compellence are widely used strategies in the post-Cold War world, and this is the most sophisticated attempt by far to determine who embraces these strategies, in what circumstances and to what effect. The essays draw on traditional and recent developments in deterrence theory and are sensitive to empirical and psychological critiques. Policymakers and scholars alike have much to learn from this thoughtful volume.”
Political Science: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, and International Relations
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