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ISBN-13: | 9780801474156 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 09/15/2007 |
Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.69(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Calculating Credibility considers how policymakers estimate whether another state's threats are credible. Although some have charged that deterrence is irrelevant in the post-Cold War era, how states make credible threats is of considerable practical importance. For instance, the Bush administration argued that the United States was justified in going to war against Iraq to preserve the credibility of the United Nations. This book fills a major gap in the literature in security studies and deterrence theory.
This interesting book challenges one of the most widely accepted principles of international relations, the definition of what constitutes 'threat credibility.'... Press's well-written, well-researched, and controversial book will likely provide the grist for many discussions in graduate seminars in international politics and national security.
In Calculating Credibility, Daryl Press takes on a major issue in the field of security studies: the role of reputation in decision makers' assessments of military threats.... By casting serious doubt on the claim that decision makers rely heavily on their adversaries' past behavior when judging credibility, Press has made a real contribution to our understanding of threat perception.
Daryl G. Press has written a truly important book. He demolishes the widely held belief that a state that backs down in a crisis loses credibility in the next crisis. In fact, he shows that a state's past behavior has almost no effect on how other states assess its credibility. Reputation is an overblown concept. The American foreign-policy elite should be told immediately about Press's findings.