Threats is a comprehensive and scientifically accurate exploration into threats at every level, from animalistic competition to social manipulation and political strife.
Threats is a comprehensive and scientifically accurate exploration into threats at every level, from animalistic competition to social manipulation and political strife.
David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington. He has written more than 280 peer-reviewed articles and forty books. Barash has penned op-eds in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Chicago Tribune, as well as numerous pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nautilus, and aeon.
Inhaltsangabe
* A Non-Threatening Start * The Clausewitz Cop-Out What's to Come * Section 1: The Natural World * Don't Tread on Them * Warnings and Mimics * Deimatic Deeds * Truth-Telling? * Hawks, Doves and Other Gamesters Shrimp Salad * Vocal Threats * Sex, Subterfuge, and Snoopers * Section 2: Individuals and Society * Crime and the Threat of Punishment Permanent Punishment * Religion as Response to Threats Oh, Hell! * Dealing With Death * Gunning for Something (If Not Someone) National Populism and Vice Versa * Section 3: International Affairs * Conventional Deterrence Nuclear Deterrence 101 * A Multitude of Myths * What Has it Done for Us Lately? Close Calls * Self-Undermining Threats * The Incredible Dilemma of Extension and Escalation Irrational Reliance on Rationality * Counterforce's Counter-Logic * An Oxymoronic Morality * How Much is Enough? * Prisoner's Dilemmas and Fried Chickens * Strategic Defense? * How Do You Solve the Problem of Korea? * Failure IS an Option * A Prescription * Appendix A: Death by Deterrence, by Gen. Lee Butler (An Excerpt) * Appendix B: Deterrence Down on the Farm
* A Non-Threatening Start * The Clausewitz Cop-Out What's to Come * Section 1: The Natural World * Don't Tread on Them * Warnings and Mimics * Deimatic Deeds * Truth-Telling? * Hawks, Doves and Other Gamesters Shrimp Salad * Vocal Threats * Sex, Subterfuge, and Snoopers * Section 2: Individuals and Society * Crime and the Threat of Punishment Permanent Punishment * Religion as Response to Threats Oh, Hell! * Dealing With Death * Gunning for Something (If Not Someone) National Populism and Vice Versa * Section 3: International Affairs * Conventional Deterrence Nuclear Deterrence 101 * A Multitude of Myths * What Has it Done for Us Lately? Close Calls * Self-Undermining Threats * The Incredible Dilemma of Extension and Escalation Irrational Reliance on Rationality * Counterforce's Counter-Logic * An Oxymoronic Morality * How Much is Enough? * Prisoner's Dilemmas and Fried Chickens * Strategic Defense? * How Do You Solve the Problem of Korea? * Failure IS an Option * A Prescription * Appendix A: Death by Deterrence, by Gen. Lee Butler (An Excerpt) * Appendix B: Deterrence Down on the Farm
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