Perfect Deterrence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521781749)

This book provides the first general analysis of deterrence since the end of the Cold War, offering a new approach to its assumptions, and analyzing them using non-cooperative game theory. Drawing on numerous historical examples, the authors focus on the relationship among capability, preferences, credibility, and outcomes to achieve a new understanding of threats and responses. The book's distinctive approach yields some surprising conclusions, indicating that credible threats to respond to attack can sometimes make an attack more likely, and that incredible response threats can sometimes promote peace.

Author: Frank C. Zagare, D. Marc Kilgour
ISBN-10: 0521781744
ISBN-13: 9780521781749
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2000
Pages: 442
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2001 pg. 1866