Uncertainty, Threat, and International Security / / Ivan Savic, Zachary C. Shirkey.

The rise of China is changing the strategic landscape globally and regionally. How states respond to potential threats posed by this new power arrangement will be crucial to international relations for the coming decades. This book builds on existing realist and rationalist concepts of balancing, ba...

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (180 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction-Threats and the Challenges of Uncertainty
  • Chapter 1-Balancing as a Commitment Problem
  • Chapter 2-Balancing and Buck-Passing: A Dynamic Model with Uncertainty
  • Chapter 3-Balancing and Buck-Passing: Western Europe in the 1930s
  • Chapter 4-To Bandwagon or Hide: A Theoretical Examination of the Alternatives to Balancing
  • Chapter 5-To Bandwagon or Hide: East Central Europe before World War Two
  • Chapter 6-Balancing and Bandwagoning by Other Means: How the Outbreak of War Affects States' Responses to Threats
  • Chapter 7-The Rise of China: Will States Balance, Bandwagon, or Hedge in the South China Sea Today?
  • Conclusion.