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This book revisits and expands on my critique of threat-based strategies of conflict management and discusses the use of reassurance and diplomacy as alternatives. This chapter provides a brief account of the theory and practice of deterrence. I go on to describe how deterrence and compellence have been adapted to the post-Cold War world and how the lessons of the Cold War provide the basis for a critique these applications.
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Lebow, R.N. (2018). Introduction. In: Avoiding War, Making Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56093-9_1
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