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- Title
Beyond Deterrence: The Malvinas-Falklands Case.
- Authors
Méndez, Nicanor Costa
- Abstract
The article comments on article of Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein entitled "Beyond Deterrence," which is about the theory of deterrence and nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union. There are differences between deterrence as a strategy of conflict management and as nuclear deterrence. The Malvinas dispute, both a diplomatic controversy and an armed conflict that followed, is a good case for illustrating the advantages and flaws of deterrence and reassurance in crisis management. The Malvinas case gives full support to Lebow and Stein's analysis. For example, "cognitive biases and heuristics, political and cultural barriers to empathy and the differing cognitive contexts that deterrer and would-be challengers are apt to use to frame and interpret signals" are most relevant to the case. Great Britain failed to convey a message of deterrence to Argentina. Great Britain's public message of deterrence had two main defects: its public announcement and; its extreme intransigence.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOVIET Union; DETERRENCE (Military strategy); NUCLEAR crisis stability; MILITARY psychology; INTERNATIONAL relations; NATIONAL security; BALANCE of power; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1987, Vol 43, Issue 4, p119
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article