Strategic thinking, deterrence and the US ballistic missile defense project : from Truman to Obama / Reuben Steff.
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Routledge,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Deterrence theory, world order and missile defense
- 2. The emergence of the missile defense project after 1945
- 3. Holding the line against the nuclear warfighters? : the Clinton administration and the containment of "rogue states"
- 4. The paradigm shift : the George W. Bush administration's embrace of missile defense
- 5. Finding the middle ground? : the Obama administration's consolidation and expansion of missile defense
- 6. Destabilizing great power relations : Russian and Chinese hard balancing against US missile defense
- 7. The contours of the missile defense debate in the twenty-first century
- 8. The persistence of the missile defense project : domestic and systemic drivers.