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The Use of Force, long considered a classic in its own right, brings together enduring and influential works on the role of military power in foreign policy and international politics. Now in its seventh edition, the reader offers ten new selections to take account of key current international issues, including the war in Iraq, U.S. attempts at coercive diplomacy, Iran's drive to acquire nuclear weapons, the dangers and control of bioweapons, military occupations, and terrorism and counterinsurgency. Meticulously chosen and edited by leading scholars Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz, the selections in this fully updated text represent the best analysis by influential thinkers on the use of force in international affairs. Book jacket.

Preface	p. xi
Strategies for the Use of Force	p. 1
How Force Is Used
The Fungibility of Force	p. 3
The Sources of Military Doctrine	p. 23
Cooperation under the Security Dilemma	p. 44
Coercive Diplomacy	p. 72
The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism	p. 79
The Nuclear Revolution
The Unimpressive Record of Atomic Diplomacy	p. 99
The Utility of Nuclear Deterrence	p. 108
Nuclear Myths and Political Realities	p. 116
Case Studies in the Use of Force	p. 133
The Great Power Era
The Cult of the Offensive in 1914	p. 135
Hitler and the Blitzkrieg Strategy	p. 152
Japan's Fatal Blunder	p. 167
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb	p. 179
The Superpower Era
The Korean War	p. 195
The Cuban Missile Crisis	p. 211
Implementing Flexible Response: Vietnam as a Test Case	p. 235
The Contemporary Era
The Afghani War: A Flawed Masterpiece	p. 261
The U.S. and Coercive Diplomacy	p. 272
Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq	p. 294
Current Military Issues	p. 309
The Projection of U.S. Military Power
From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing	p. 311
The Strategy of Selective Engagement	p. 327
Taming American Power	p. 349
The Spread of Biological and Nuclear Weapons
Pathogens as Weapons: The International Security Implications of Biological Warfare	p. 358
The Impact of Iran's Nuclearization on Israel	p. 371
Nuclear Instability in South Asia	p. 382
Nuclear Stability in South Asia	p. 394
Intervention in Internal Conflicts
Intervention in Ethnic and Ideological Civil Wars	p. 406
Military Responses to Refugee Disasters	p. 427
The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement	p. 448
Occupational Hazards: Why Military Occupations Succeed or Fail	p. 462
Coping with Insurgency and Terrorism
Counter-insurgency Redux	p. 486
Dealing with Terrorists	p. 501
How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups	p. 509
Acknowledgments	p. 533
About the Contributors	p. 537
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