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dc.contributor.authorOsinga, Frans
dc.contributor.authorSweijs, Tim
dc.contributor.editorOsinga, Frans
dc.contributor.editorSweijs, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-14T08:28:20Z
dc.date.available2020-12-14T08:28:20Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20201214_9789462654198_41
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43303
dc.description.abstractThis open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies. The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of paramount concern to scholars, strategists and policymakers. Ours is a period of considerable strategic turbulence, which in recent years has featured a renewed emphasis on nuclear weapons used in defence postures across different theatres; a dramatic growth in the scale of military cyber capabilities and the frequency with which these are used; and rapid technological progress including the proliferation of long-range strike and unmanned systems. These military-strategic developments occur in a polarized international system, where cooperation between leading powers on arms control regimes is breaking down, states widely make use of hybrid conflict strategies, and the number of internationalized intrastate proxy conflicts has quintupled over the past two decades. Contemporary conflict actors exploit a wider gamut of coercive instruments, which they apply across a wider range of domains. The prevalence of multi-domain coercion across but also beyond traditional dimensions of armed conflict raises an important question: what does effective deterrence look like in the 21st century? Answering that question requires a re-appraisal of key theoretical concepts and dominant strategies of Western and non-Western actors in order to assess how they hold up in today’s world. Air Commodore Professor Dr. Frans Osinga is the Chair of the War Studies Department of the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Special Chair in War Studies at the University Leiden. Dr. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNL ARMS
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international lawen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relationsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.otherPublic International Law
dc.subject.otherInternational Security Studies
dc.subject.otherPolitical Science and International Relations, general
dc.subject.otherPolitics and International Studies
dc.subject.otherDeterrence theory
dc.subject.otherConventional deterrence
dc.subject.otherNuclear deterrence
dc.subject.otherDeterring terrorists
dc.subject.otherCyber deterrence
dc.subject.otherCross-domain deterrence
dc.subject.otherNon-Western deterrence concepts
dc.subject.otherAI and deterrence
dc.subject.otherDeterrence and peacekeeping
dc.subject.otherFifth wave deterrence theory
dc.subject.otherOpen access
dc.subject.otherInternational relations
dc.subject.otherPolitics & government
dc.titleNL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020
dc.title.alternativeDeterrence in the 21st Century—Insights from Theory and Practice
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-94-6265-419-8
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.imprintT.M.C. Asser Press
oapen.pages527


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