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International Security, Vol. 24, No. 4
Steven E. Miller, Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Diane J. McCree, editors
(The MIT Press, Spring 2000)
In the first of two articles in the spring issue on the 1999 war over Kosovo, Daniel Byman and Matthew Waxman of the RAND Corporation seek to dispel the notion that NATO air attacks alone brought Serbia to the negotiating table. MIT''s Barry Posen assesses Serbia''s political-military strategy in its confrontation with NATO. Scott Sagan of Stanford University examines Washington''s "calculated ambiguity doctrine," which holds that the United States does not rule out the use of nuclear weapons in response to a chemical or biological weapons attack. Neta Crawford of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, challenges the scholarly community to pay greater attention to the role of emotion and emotional relationships in international relations. Douglas Porch of the Naval Postgraduate School reviews Elizabeth Kier''s book Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine Between the Wars. (http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/IS)
International Security, Vol. 25, No. 1
Steven E. Miller, Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Diane J. McCree, editors
(The MIT Press, Summer 2000)
The summer issue opens with an article by Kenneth Waltz of Columbia University who counters charges that structural realist theory cannot explain post-Cold War international politics. Waltz contends that structural realism is still the best theory of international politics. In assessing the recent conflicts in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, John Mueller of the University of Rochester suggests that labeling these conflicts as "ethnic warfare" is wrongheaded. Instead, according to Mueller, the violence was the work of non-ideological opportunistic thugs recruited by political authorities for their own ends. Keir Lieber of the Brookings Institution suggests that the offense-defense balance of technology is both theoretically and empirically flawed. Ward Thomas of the College of the Holy Cross examines the norm against international assassination, and finds that it is still a powerful restraint on state action. Finally, Stanford University''s Barton Bernstein reviews the revised edition of Essence of Decision by Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow. (http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/IS)