Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States: US National Security Policy after 9/11

This new study challenges the widely held view that many current US adversaries cannot be deterred, maintaining that deterrence is not a relic of the Cold War period and that it should shape US policies toward so-called ‘rogue states’ and terror groups.

James Lebovic argues that deterrence principles continue to apply, and focuses upon the ‘three pillars’ of the Bush administration’s national security policy:

• missile defence, which preoccupied the administration until September 11, 2001

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