Description
Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has changed the meaning of war, the psychology of statesmanship, and the formulation of military policy by the superpowers.
About the Author
Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy, also from Cornell, and, most recently, American Foreign Policy in a New Era.
Reviews
A comprehensive analysis that thrusts Jervis into the front ranks of nuclear essayists.
* Kirkus Reviews *A masterful book by one of America's preeminent strategists.... What the nuclear revolution has done is magnify in force and compress in time imperatives that were present in the pre-nuclear era; even the pursuit of unlimited victory was unrealistic. Jervis takes us through those implications in prose so lucid we feel we have known them all along.
* Foreign Affairs *Awards
Winner of Winner of the 1990 Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas Impr.
Book Information
ISBN 9780801495656
Author Robert Jervis
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Cornell University Press
Publisher Cornell University Press
Weight(grams) 907g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm * 18mm
