The fallacies of Cold War deterrence and a new direction /
In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured British policy accordingly. This plan was a failure, chiefly because Hitler was not a statesman who would ultimately conform to familiar norms. Chamber...
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Table of Contents:
- Cold War deterrence theory and practice
- Why the Cold War deterrence framework is inadequate
- Cold War deterrence thought in the post-Cold War world
- The dilemma of popular usage and a new direction
- Testing the deterrence framework
- The new deterrence framework, evidence, and misplaced confidence
- Lessons of this case study.
