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Force and Diplomacy in the Future

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This study is an initial effort to assess the post-Cold War international environment in terms of its implications for the relationship between force and policy. This relationship between force and policy in the future, based on a retrospective look at US, allied NATO, and Soviet doctrine strategy is one of uncertain fidelity and potentially destabilizing content. Assuming that informed speculation about the post-Cold War world requires a sense of connection to the historical past, Cimbala sees that issues with which Europe was forced to deal prior to the Second World War will reappear in the aftermath of a socially reconstructed Soviet Union, a defunct Warsaw Pact, and a newly reunited Germany. He finds that nationalism and economic competition will contend for the attention of policymakers along with traditional security issues for the remainder of the 1990s and thereafter. The peace and stability provided for more than 40 years by US-Soviet strategic nuclear bipolarity and the bloc politics of the Cold War will no longer be taken for granted. Cimbala sees that opportunities exist for collaboration between Washington and Moscow, and among other major powers, toward the development of a "systems consciousness" in favour of international peace and stability. Military security was not only the cause of peace in post-World War II Europe it was also the product of political stability made possible by economic prosperity. The economic prosperity of Western Europe eventually proved too embarrassing for the regimes of eastern Europe to maintain their political legitimacy and the demise of communism in part came from the process of transformation from an industrial to a post-industrial age.

Author Biography:

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Campus. He is the author of numerous books, including The Soviet Challenge in the 1990s (Praeger, 1989), Conflict Termination in Europe: Games Against War (Praeger, 1990), and Strategy After Deterrence (Praeger, 1991). He has also written articles on arms control, nuclear strategy and deterrence, and other areas dealing with the relationship between force and policy.
Release date Australia
May 30th, 1992
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Pages
256
Dimensions
156x234x15
ISBN-13
9780275941093
Product ID
14126323

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