Patrick M Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 323561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick M Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick M |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9396-3871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reflections on Lawrence Freedman’s ‘Deterrence’
This chapter focuses on the social aspects of strategy, arguing for the importance of relationships in strategy and, in particular, in understanding of deterrence. Deterrence, in its essence, is predicated upon a social relationship – the one deterring and the one to be deterred. Alliance and cooperation are important in generating the means for actively managing international security. Following Freedman’s work on deterrence in the post-Cold War…
Cold War-Era Deterrence and International Relations in the Middle East
James H. Lebovic, Flawed Logics: Strategic Nuclear Arms Control From Truman to Obama
The State of Deterrence in International Politics Today
In comparison with the Cold War era, deterrence in international politics has changed significantly, even though many of the basic components of that deterrence still exist and continue to have an impact. Deterrence is now less salient in national security policies and international security management, more recessed, particularly nuclear deterrence. This is primarily due to the huge changes in international politics ushered in by the end of the …
The practice of deterrence
It is often suggested that deterrence has changed since the Cold War. As to how, commonly mentioned is that how the targets think has changed in many instances – the opponent may be irrational or rational in ways hard for a would-be deterrer to appreciate. Also suggested is that the opponent’s motivation is now often such that threats of grave harm will not deter, or that he has too few “assets” to hold at risk for effective deterrence.
American Grand Strategy and the US–ROK Alliance
The US–ROK alliance is usually described and discussed in realist terms, when the proper basis for doing so for some time now has been liberalist. The alliance is lodged within a larger US–ROK community, in much the same way as other US alliances are arranged. It is also lodged within the community of democratic states that champion democratic peace theory, which essentially has come to constitute an informal but quite powerful alliance of all mo…
Bionuclear Nightmares
This is an important, informative, well-thought-out book. While it has a few shortcomings, it is clearly the product of much research, and it offers careful analysis on an important subject. The author's real target is American policy makers who, he feels, are not sufficiently anticipating some important security concerns that will be of rising importance. Preston's thesis is that future international security relationships will soon be sharply a…
Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence by John Duffield
Journal Article Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence by John Duffield Get access Over a Barrel: The Costs of U.S. Foreign Oil Dependence by John Duffield. Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press, 2007. 312 pp. $27.95. Patrick M. Morgan Patrick M. Morgan University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 4, Winter 2008, Pages 7…
Regime Change: U.S. Strategy Through the Prism of 9/11 by Robert S. Litwak
Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats and Deterrence by Diplomacy
Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats. By Daryl G. Press. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 218p. $32.50. Deterrence by Diplomacy. By Anne E. Sartori. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 176p. $32.50. In Cold War deterrence, nothing was more important or disturbing than the credibility problem. Success depended on conveying credible threats, yet it was hard to see how to make retaliatory threats credible …
Deterrence and System Management: The Case of North Korea
The recent North Korean crisis is the latest phase in a lengthy U.S.-North Korean deterrence relationship. That relationship, particularly its problems and limitations, is reviewed and the effectiveness of each side's contemporary deterrence posture is assessed. It is noted that deterrence and compellence have not prevented the emergence of the North's nuclear proliferation efforts, nor has it brought North Korea a large improvement in security. …
Taking the long view of deterrence
One of the most interesting aspects of deterrence during the Cold War is how East – West, particularly superpower, deterrence gradually took on many of the trappings of a resource for international
The Forceful Peacemaker
The end of the Cold War provoked a reexamination of the relevance of deterrence in security management, mostly reflecting a concern that it no longer fits contemporary threats (see, for example, Special Issue 2000; Manwaring 2001; Payne 2001; Morgan 2003). However, this renewed interest involved little new thinking about deterrence theory itself. In that light, Pivotal Deterrence: Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace by Timothy Crawfor…
Deterrence Now
Patrick Morgan's authoritative study revisits the place of deterrence after the Cold War. By assessing and questioning the state of modern deterrence theory, particularly under conditions of nuclear proliferation, Morgan argues that there are basic flaws in the design of the theory that ultimately limits its utility. Given the probable patterns of future international politics, he suggests that greater attention be paid to 'general' deterrence as…
Nato and European security: The creative use of an international organization
This essay deals with Europe's experience in regional security building. In the author's view, it is hard to find much comfort for the Middle East in the modern history of security management in Europe. Certain basic elements which made the process work in Europe are lacking in the Middle East. Morgan discusses at length NATO's role in and contribution to the emergence of a pluralistic security community in Western Europe. It did so by developing…
Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560
1University of Keele Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480–1560 TimThornton WoodbridgeBoydell & Brewer 2000320£40
National and international security: Theory then, theory now
This article argues that theory in international relations remains quite relevant for foreign policy‐making. However, after indicating how theory widely shapes foreign policy discussion and analysis today, it cites Cold War era examples to demonstrate that theory is often used badly or very unevenly by political leaders and officials. It also demonstrates that IR theory has been uneven in predicting and explaining important developments. This is …
Deterrence Now (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
Re-Viewing the Cold War: Domestic Factors and Foreign Policy in the East-West Confrontation
A cooperative effort by a number of historians and political scientists, this essay collection focuses on the important connection between domestic affairs and foreign relations during the Cold War. The case studies treat phases of both the Soviet and American experiences and involve contributions by two Russian scholars, three Americans, a German, a Swede, and an Israeli. This collection is particularly timely and signficant because of the surpr…
The impact of the revolution in military affairs
Liberalist and realist security studies at 2000: Two decades of progress
(1999). Liberalist and realist security studies at 2000: Two decades of progress? Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 39-71
International Relations and Politics
International Relations and Politics
Psychology and Deterrence
The New Psychology of War and Peace
Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis
Understanding Global War
While the problem of war in general deserves continuing scholarly attention, it seems appropriate to single out the systemwide—that is, global—war for intensive analysis as the kind of war that poses the gravest threat of catastrophe. Such a war can best be understood as an integral part of a long cycle, a recurring pattern in the development and operation of the global layer of the international system. From this perspective the design of a solu…
The State of Deterrence in International Politics Today
In comparison with the Cold War era, deterrence in international politics has changed significantly, even though many of the basic components of that deterrence still exist and continue to have an impact. Deterrence is now less salient in national security policies and international security management, more recessed, particularly nuclear deterrence. This is primarily due to the huge changes in international politics ushered in by the end of the …
Deterrence and System Management: The Case of North Korea
The recent North Korean crisis is the latest phase in a lengthy U.S.-North Korean deterrence relationship. That relationship, particularly its problems and limitations, is reviewed and the effectiveness of each side's contemporary deterrence posture is assessed. It is noted that deterrence and compellence have not prevented the emergence of the North's nuclear proliferation efforts, nor has it brought North Korea a large improvement in security. …
Taking the long view of deterrence
One of the most interesting aspects of deterrence during the Cold War is how East – West, particularly superpower, deterrence gradually took on many of the trappings of a resource for international
The impact of the revolution in military affairs
Liberalist and realist security studies at 2000: Two decades of progress
(1999). Liberalist and realist security studies at 2000: Two decades of progress? Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 39-71
The New Psychology of War and Peace
Academia and the Federal Government
In recent years a revolutionary shift has occurred in the federal goovernment—‐higher education relationship. Why didn't higher education resist more vigorously federal encroachment in its autonomy? First, academia focused its attention on the wrong kind of threat. Second, federal involvement was useful for solving problems on campus and often was in keeping with objectives and values supported in academia institutions. Third, the rise of public …
Criteria for Developing Arms Control Accords: Arms Control: A Theoretical Perspective
This paper offers a new definition of arms control and traces some of the implications of that definition. It also sets out a list of prerequisites for arms control, within the framework, the current and future prospects for arms control are briefly assessed, as are the fundamental limitations of arms control as a strategy for peace and security
Word Politics: Verbal Strategy among the Superpowers
Theories and Approaches to International Politics: What Are We to Think
Soviet Potpourri Politics and Oil: Moscow in the Middle East . By Lincoln Landis The Soviet Union in World Affairs, a Documented Analysis 1964-1972 . By W. W. Kulski USSR: The Politics of Oligarchy . …
Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis
Deterrence in Foreign Policy
Criteria for Developing Arms Control Accords: Arms Control: A Theoretical Perspective
This paper offers a new definition of arms control and traces some of the implications of that definition. It also sets out a list of prerequisites for arms control, within the framework, the current and future prospects for arms control are briefly assessed, as are the fundamental limitations of arms control as a strategy for peace and security
Academia and the Federal Government
In recent years a revolutionary shift has occurred in the federal goovernment—‐higher education relationship. Why didn't higher education resist more vigorously federal encroachment in its autonomy? First, academia focused its attention on the wrong kind of threat. Second, federal involvement was useful for solving problems on campus and often was in keeping with objectives and values supported in academia institutions. Third, the rise of public …
United States
DNA repair maintains genomic stability and the loss of DNA repair capacity results in genetic instability that may lead to a decline of cellular function. Adult stem cells are extremely important in the long-term maintenance of tissues throughout life. They regenerate and renew tissues in response to damage and replace senescent terminally differentiated cells that no longer function. Oxidative stress, toxic byproducts, reduced mitochondrial func…
Illusions, Myths, and Management: Alternative Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence
Books reviewed in this articles:Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk, Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against NuclearismDavid P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, Stop Nuclear War! A HandbookEdward J. Markey with Douglas C. Waller, Nuclear Peril: The Politics of ProliferationBruce Russett, The Prisoners of Insecurity: Nuclear Deterrence, the Arms Race, and Arms ControlWilliam H. Baugh, The Politics of Nuclear Balance; Ambigui…
Nato: Perpetual Motion, No Change
Understanding Global War
While the problem of war in general deserves continuing scholarly attention, it seems appropriate to single out the systemwide—that is, global—war for intensive analysis as the kind of war that poses the gravest threat of catastrophe. Such a war can best be understood as an integral part of a long cycle, a recurring pattern in the development and operation of the global layer of the international system. From this perspective the design of a solu…
The New Psychology of War and Peace
International Relations and Politics
Psychology and Deterrence
International Relations and Politics
Liberalist and realist security studies at 2000: Two decades of progress
(1999). Liberalist and realist security studies at 2000: Two decades of progress? Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 39-71
Re-Viewing the Cold War: Domestic Factors and Foreign Policy in the East-West Confrontation
A cooperative effort by a number of historians and political scientists, this essay collection focuses on the important connection between domestic affairs and foreign relations during the Cold War. The case studies treat phases of both the Soviet and American experiences and involve contributions by two Russian scholars, three Americans, a German, a Swede, and an Israeli. This collection is particularly timely and signficant because of the surpr…
The impact of the revolution in military affairs
Deterrence Now
Patrick Morgan's authoritative study revisits the place of deterrence after the Cold War. By assessing and questioning the state of modern deterrence theory, particularly under conditions of nuclear proliferation, Morgan argues that there are basic flaws in the design of the theory that ultimately limits its utility. Given the probable patterns of future international politics, he suggests that greater attention be paid to 'general' deterrence as…
Nato and European security: The creative use of an international organization
This essay deals with Europe's experience in regional security building. In the author's view, it is hard to find much comfort for the Middle East in the modern history of security management in Europe. Certain basic elements which made the process work in Europe are lacking in the Middle East. Morgan discusses at length NATO's role in and contribution to the emergence of a pluralistic security community in Western Europe. It did so by developing…
Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560
1University of Keele Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480–1560 TimThornton WoodbridgeBoydell & Brewer 2000320£40
National and international security: Theory then, theory now
This article argues that theory in international relations remains quite relevant for foreign policy‐making. However, after indicating how theory widely shapes foreign policy discussion and analysis today, it cites Cold War era examples to demonstrate that theory is often used badly or very unevenly by political leaders and officials. It also demonstrates that IR theory has been uneven in predicting and explaining important developments. This is …
Deterrence Now (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
The Forceful Peacemaker
The end of the Cold War provoked a reexamination of the relevance of deterrence in security management, mostly reflecting a concern that it no longer fits contemporary threats (see, for example, Special Issue 2000; Manwaring 2001; Payne 2001; Morgan 2003). However, this renewed interest involved little new thinking about deterrence theory itself. In that light, Pivotal Deterrence: Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace by Timothy Crawfor…
Taking the long view of deterrence
One of the most interesting aspects of deterrence during the Cold War is how East – West, particularly superpower, deterrence gradually took on many of the trappings of a resource for international
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