Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science

Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science
ISBN-10
1135770166
ISBN-13
9781135770167
Category
History
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2004-07-01
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Robert Ayson

Description

An illuminating insight into the work of Thomas Schelling, one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States' early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most distinctive voices in Western strategy. This book shows how Schelling's thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions of the Cold War. In a demonstration that ideas can be just as significant as superpower politics, Robert Ayson traces the way this Harvard University professor built a unique intellectual framework using a mix of social-scientific reasoning, from economics to social theory and psychology. As such, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the intellectual history which underpins classical thinking on nuclear strategy and arms control - thinking which still has an enormous influence in the early twenty-first century.

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