Showing papers by "Janice Gross Stein published in 1985"

Psychology and Deterrence

Abstract: Now available in paperback, 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.

Detection and Defection: Security ‘régimes’ and the Management of International Conflict

Abstract: Since the concept of international regime was first introduced just a decade ago, a great deal has been written about the contribution of regimes to the management of international conflict. Yet the two critical concepts conflict management and international regime remain woolly, elusive, and controversial. What is clear is that in the nuclear age, most analysts speak cautiously of the 'management' of international conflict, a prospect that is seemingly modest in ambition and perspective. It falls far short of the resolution of underlying incompatibilities, accepts the permanence of discord, and indeed treats the liberal vision of harmony as an aberration rather than as the norm. Scholars acknowledge that other than conflict among nuclear powers, some international disputes may not only be unresolvable, they may even be unmanageable.' Where interests are wholly incompatible, where conflict is 'zero-sum,' where leaders compete to maximize relative differences with their opponent rather than to increase their own gains, even the limited objective of the management of conflict may be impossible. The arena of conflict management is circumspectly defined by those who seek to avoid an unwanted use of force and to