Week 13: Theories of Conflict: The Control of Armaments

 Topics for Reports:

• Theories of Armaments as a Cause of Conflict
• Theories of Conflict as a Cause of Armaments
• Strategic Bargaining
• Action-Reaction Models of Arms Competition and their Critics

Basic Readings:
 
 

Dougherty, James E. and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

* Contending Theories of International Relations, Chs. 6-8

Klare, Michael T.

"The Next Great Arms Race," Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.

Schelling, Thomas

Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), Chs. 1-3.

Bull, Hedley

The Control of the Arms Race (N.Y.: Praeger, 1961)

Burton, J.W.

Peace Theory: Preconditions of Disarmament (N.Y.: Knopf, 1962)

Child, James W.

Nuclear War: The Moral Dimension (New Brunswick, NJ, 1986)

Clark, Ian

Limited Nuclear War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982)

Downs, George W. and David M. Rocke

Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races, and Arms Control (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993)

Freedman, Lawrence

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983)

Halperin, Morton H.

Arms Control and Inadvertent General War (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Defense Analyses, 1962)

Henkin, Louis, ed.

Arms Control: Issues for the Public (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1961)

Howard, Michael E.

Studies in War and Peace (New York: Viking Press, 1971)

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Restraints on War (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 1979)

Ikl‚, Fred

Every War Must End (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971)

Jastrow, Robert

How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985)

Johnson, James Turner

Can Modern War Be Just? (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984)

Kintner, William R. and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

SALT: Implications for Arms Control in the 1970s (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973)

Krepon, Michael

Strategic Stalemate: Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984)

Lefever, Ernest W. and E. Stephen Hunt, eds.

The Apocalyptic Premise: Nuclear Arms Debated (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1982)

Levine, Robert A.

The Arms Debate (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963)

Luard, Evan, ed.

Peace and Opinion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962)

Mendlovitz, Saul H., ed.

Legal and Political Problems of World Order (New York: The Fund for Education Concerning World Peace Through World Law, 1962)

O'Brien, William V. and John Langan, eds.

The Nuclear Dilemma and the Just War Tradition (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986)

Nye, Joseph S., Jr.

Nuclear Ethics (New York: Free Press, 1986)

Payne, Keith B.

Strategic Defense: "Star Wars" In Perspective (Lanham, MD: Hamilton Press, 1986)

Pfaltzgraff, Robert L., Jr., ed.

Contrasting Approaches to Strategic Arms Control (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1974)

Rapoport, Anatol

"Lewis F. Richardson's Mathematical Theory of War," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 1 (1957), pp.249-304

Richardson, Lewis F.

Arms and Insecurity (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1960)

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"Mathematical Theory of War," The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 1 (1957)

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Statistics of Deadly Quarrels (Pittsburgh: Boxwood Press, 1960)

Smoke, Richard

War: Controlling Escalation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977)

Tucker, Robert W.

The Nuclear Debate: Deterrence and the Lapse of Faith (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985)

Wolfers, Arnold

The United States in a Disarmed World (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1961)

Woolsey, R. James, ed.

Nuclear Arms: Ethics, Strategy, Politics (San Francisco, CA: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1984)