Military Threats: A Systematic Historical Analysis of the Determinants of Success (Contributions in Military Studies)

Karsten, Peter; Frances Allen, Artis; Howell, Peter

ISBN 10: 0313238251 / ISBN 13: 9780313238253

Edité par Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1984

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First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall in maroon cloth w/gold titles and rules. Near Fine/No DJ. Ex-lib w/ call sticker at heel, stamps and pocket part residue at rear; stamps of the "National Atomic Museum" on endpapers. 166pp; illustrated in Tables. 166 p.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Military Threats: A Systematic Historical Analysis of the Determinants of Success (Contributions in Military Studies)
• Éditeur: Greenwood Press, Westport, CT
• Date de parution: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0313238251
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780313238253
• Reliure: Cloth
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Type de livre: Ex-Library
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Non-Fiction
  • History
  • Military

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Synopsis

The threat to use military force is a matter that commands immediate attention from many segments of government. Karsten, Howell, and Allen systematically analyze statistically significant numbers of actual cases to discover the determinants of success or failure of the threat to employ military force. After describing their methodology, they address several questions: what are the general characteristics of the typical threat? what types of threats succeed? what threats lead to war? did threats in the prenuclear past differ in outcome from those in the nuclear present? have the United States' threats differed substantially from those of other nations? can anything be said concerning the long-term consequences of the threats? In a concluding chapter the authors summarize their findings, compare them to the conventional wisdom, and then, as a test, apply them to six historical cases. They end their study with a look at the Solidarity and Falklands crises, and a theoretical scenario that suggests the significance of their findings.

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Howell was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of A Commentary on Book I of the Epigrams of Martial (1980) and Martial: The Epigrams, Book V (1995).