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Munich: The Price of Peace
01 Jan 1979-
About: The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 50 citations till now.
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TL;DR: A core element of the Reagan Administration's defense buildup lies in its plan to increase the size of the U.S. Navy to 600 ships as discussed by the authors, which is the Navy's blueprint for fighting a global conventional war against the Soviet Union.
Abstract: A core element of the Reagan Administration’s defense buildup lies in its plan to increase the size of the U.S. Navy to 600 ships.’ This 600-ship force is purportedly required to implement “The Maritime Strategy,” which is the Navy‘s blueprint for fighting a global conventional war against the Soviet Union. It is being built at the expense of American air and ground forces in Central Europe, which have not been significantly strengthened during the Reagan Administration’s tenure, even though the Administration has expressed the view that the NATO-Warsaw Pact conventional balance in Europe clearly favors the Pact.2 Serious controversy has surrounded both the naval buildup and its attendant Maritime Strategy. Critics have charged that the Maritime Strategy is not coherent or complete, and does not provide an adequate rationale for
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TL;DR: Holmes as mentioned in this paper argues that dismissing face-to-face diplomacy is in stark contrast to what leaders and policy makers deem as essential and that this view is rooted in a particular set of assumptions that see an individual's intentions as fundamentally inaccessible.
Abstract: Face-to-face diplomacy has long been the lynchpin of world politics, yet it is largely dismissed by scholars of International Relations as unimportant. Marcus Holmes argues that dismissing this type of diplomacy is in stark contrast to what leaders and policy makers deem as essential and that this view is rooted in a particular set of assumptions that see an individual's intentions as fundamentally inaccessible. Building on recent evidence from social neuroscience and psychology, Holmes argues that this assumption is problematic. Marcus Holmes studies some of the most important moments of diplomacy in the twentieth century, from 'Munich' to the end of the Cold War, and by showing how face-to-face interactions allowed leaders to either reassure each other of benign defensive intentions or pick up on offensive intentions, his book challenges the notion that intentions are fundamentally unknowable in international politics, a central idea in IR theory.
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TL;DR: In this article, two contrary "balance of power" explanations of escalation of interstate conflict to war are tested: (1) parity in power preserves peace and (2) rough parity encourages escalation to war.
Abstract: Two contrary "balance of power" explanations of escalation of interstate conflict to war are tested: (1) parity in power preserves peace and (2) rough parity in power encourages escalation to war. Unlike other tests of these propositions, the assessment of the "balance of power" includes information on political capacity of a state, political geography, and different types of alliance formations. During 1815-1939, conflicts between approximately equal, nonseparated great power opponents were much more likely to escalate to war than were conflicts between unequals.
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TL;DR: The authors examines some of the central themes in recent studies relating to appeasement: the "structural" approach, which offers a new overall interpretation; the economic, military, and intelligence "dimensions" of British foreign policy in the 1930s; and the breaking down of traditional stereotypes of the roles of Chamberlain and Churchill.
Abstract: Historical research since the opening of the British archives in the late 1960s has brought about a substantial revision of the image of appeasement that had generally been accepted after World War II. Yet the traditional image has scarcely been questioned in contemporary writing on international relations. This article examines some of the central themes in recent studies relating to appeasement: the “structural” approach, which offers a new overall interpretation; the economic, military, and intelligence “dimensions” of British foreign policy in the 1930s; and the breaking down of traditional stereotypes of the roles of Chamberlain and Churchill. This reappraisal has important implications for the discipline of international relations, its view of the origins of World War II, and theories of international structural change.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors point out that targets sometimes make concessions when third parties offer assistance, and that unreliable third parties may explain deterrence failure in the case of the Iran nuclear deal.
Abstract: Why do targets sometimes make concessions when third parties offer assistance? Both the extended deterrence and alliance literatures point to unreliable third parties to explain deterrence failure ...
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