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The logic of deterrence in theory and practice

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HoistJohan J. and NerlichUwe, editors, Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: New Aims, New Arms (New York: Crane Russak, 1977), 314 pp.
MorganPatrick M., Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1977), 216 pp.
SmokeRichard, War: Controlling Escalation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), 419 pp.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Leon V. Sigal
Leon V. Sigal
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Wesleyan University.
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International Organization , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1979 , pp. 567 - 579
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1979

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1 Quoted in Bell, Coral, Conventions of Crisis (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 2Google Scholar.

2 Kahn, Herman, On Thermonuclear War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961), p. 24Google Scholar.

3 I am indebted to Alexander George for clarifying this point.

4 George, Alexander L., Hall, David K., and Simons, William E., The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), pp. 228–44Google Scholar.

5 The authors elaborate a number of game structures which they distinguish according to payoff orderings. In the following matrix,

6 Quoted in Jenkins, Brian, The Unchangeable War (Santa Monica: RAND, 1973)Google Scholar.