Force and Diplomacy in the Future

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Force and Diplomacy in the Future is written by Stephen J. Cimbala and published by Praeger. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0275941094 (ISBN 10) and 9780275941093 (ISBN 13).

This volume focuses on the relationship between force and policy as it might be viewed by the major powers in the future, especially in the context of the end of the Cold War and efforts to contain nationalism and irredentism, which threaten to spread from the Balkans and the new states in the former Soviet Union. Cimbala begins with the the role of NATO in the new age of nuclear escalation and the role of coercive strategy in the Gulf Crisis of 1991. He then discusses Prussian military theorist Karl von Clausewitz's argument that war and politics are inseparable, and his views on the problem of military escalation. Cimbala also covers the roles of punishment and denial in contemporary nuclear strategy, and concludes with the implications of the study for the role of force and policy in the future. ISBN 0-275-94109-4: $47.95.