Keren Yarhi-Milo

Knowing the Adversary

Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations

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Produktbeschreibung

States are more likely to engage in risky and destabilizing actions such as military buildups and preemptive strikes if they believe their adversaries pose a tangible threat. Yet despite the crucial importance of this issue, we don't know enough about how states and their leaders draw inferences about their adversaries' long-term intentions. Knowing the Adversary draws on a wealth of historical archival evidence to shed new light on how world leaders and intelligence organizations actually make these assessments. Keren Yarhi-Milo examines three cases: Britain's assessments of Nazi Germany's intentions in the 1930s, America's assessments of the Soviet Union's intentions during the Carter administration, and the Reagan administration's assessments of Soviet intentions near the end of the Cold War. Knowing the Adversary provides a clearer picture of the historical validity of existing theories, and broadens our understanding of the important role that diplomacy plays in international security

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780691159164
• ISBN-10: 0691159165
• Artikelnr.: 39753049

Autorenporträt

Keren Yarhi-Milo is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.

Rezensionen

"Knowing the Adversary tackles a central question in international security and reaches nonobvious conclusions with wide implications. The quality of the empirical work is outstanding. I can think of few recent qualitative studies that are in its league."--William C. Wohlforth, coauthor of World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy