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UNINA9910465093903321 |
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Autore |
Posen Barry R. |
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Titolo |
Inadvertent Escalation : Conventional War and Nuclear Risks / / Barry R. Posen |
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Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , [2013] |
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©1991 |
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0-8014-6837-X |
0-8014-6838-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cornell Studies in Security Affairs |
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Soggetti |
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Escalation (Military science) |
Nuclear threshold (Strategy) |
Limited war |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: A Model of Inadvertent Escalation -- 2. Air War and Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation -- 3. The Balance of Ground Forces on the Central Front -- 4. Escalation and NATO's Northern Flank -- 5. "Offensive" and "Defensive" Sea Control: A Comparative Assessment -- 6. Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. The Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) Model -- APPENDIX 2. Central Region Close Air Support Aircraft and Attack Helicopters (1988) -- APPENDIX 3. The Attrition-FEBA Expansion Model: Symphony Version -- APPENDIX 4. A Barrier Defense Model -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures, he believes, may help some future decision maker avoid catastrophe. Building a formidable argument that moves with cumulative force, he details the way in which escalation could occur not by mindless accident, or by deliberate preference for nuclear escalation, but rather as a natural |
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accompaniment of land, naval, or air warfare at the conventional level. Posen bases his analysis on an empirical study of the east-west military competition in Europe during the 1980's, using a conceptual framework drawn from international relations theory, organization theory, and strategic theory. The lessons of his book, however, go well beyond the east-west competition. Since his observations are relevant to all military competitions between states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, his book speaks to some of the problems that attend the proliferation of nuclear weapons in longstanding regional conflicts. Optimism that small and medium nuclear powers can easily achieve "stable" nuclear balances is, he believes, unwarranted. |
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UNINA9910453149603321 |
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Autore |
McAnany Emile G |
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Saving the world [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history of communication for development and social change / / Emile G. McAnany |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-252-09387-9 |
1-283-99350-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Collana |
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Communication in economic development - History |
Communication in rural development - History |
Communication in social action - History |
Mass media - Social aspects - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [157-168]) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Communication in the lives of the globe -- Saving the world : beginning of communication for development -- Globalization, discourse and development communication : Unesco as prime mover -- Communication for development : does it work? -- Rethinking the |
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paradigm : the dependency phase -- Another paradigm : participatory communication -- Paradigm for a new millennium : social entrepreneurship -- Past, present and future : an agenda for 2015 and beyond -- The future : some final thoughts. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Drawing on the pioneering works of Daniel Lerner, Everett Rogers, and Wilbur Schramm as well as his own personal experiences in the field, McAnany builds a new, historically cognizant paradigm of communication for development and social change for the future that supplements technology with social entrepreneurship. |
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