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Potential Threats to U.S. Soviet Deterrence

其他書名	The Political Dimension
出版	Rand Corporation, 1982
主題	Political Science / International Relations / General
ISBN	08330231369780833023131
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=M33sAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This paper analyzes the stability of U.S.-Soviet deterrence against the background of a changing global environment. It argues that a potential cause of instability is the clash between U.S. and Soviet views on the role of the unrealized military potential (in the form of economic power) outside the hands of the two superpowers. Soviet interests are served by the development of a special relationship with the U.S. in which the latter in effect policies its allies to prevent them from challenging Soviet equality. From the American perspective, however, it grows increasingly difficult to both defend third areas against the Soviet Union while at the same time policing these areas on behalf of the Soviet Union. Hence the American disillusionment with detente. The paper then suggests three possible ways in which the international order might develop so that the conflicting views of the U.S. and the USSR on the meaning of equality do not threaten deterrence. (author).