DEBRA VAN OPSTAL
Biographic Data
| ID | 5751024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | DEBRA VAN OPSTAL |
| GIVEN NAMES | DEBRA |
| FAMILY NAME | VAN OPSTAL |
| SIGNATURE | VAN OPSTAL D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yesterday's Arms Control Will Not Prevent Nuclear War
Even as prospects for direct U.S.-Soviet confrontation have decreased, the potential for international collision almost everywhere else is on the rise. Although arms control remains an important long-term issue in superpower relations, the United States and Soviet Union face a more imminent danger of unwanted nuclear escalation through the actions of unstable, unpredictable, and well-armed states in the Third World. This suggests that a better U.…
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow—Nuclear Deterrence in the 1990s
The United States faces a curious yet profound dilemma: we want to reduce the world's nuclear weapons but do not know how to do so without increasing rather than decreasing the threat that these weapons will be used. More and better of everything is clearly no answer; but it is not axiomatic that less is always more secure. Indeed the danger with small nuclear forces is that even marginal alternation in agreed-upon numbers can create a possibly d…
Terror, the Strategic Tool: Response and Control
The United States appears ill prepared to deal with an emerging form of interstate rivalry, that is, the use of terror as an unconventional weapon to achieve conventional political ends. The terror event represents a powerful form of leverage simply because of its media value. Using media coverage to amplify their impact, acts of terrorist violence have paralyzed Western governments and undermined their credibility. In a destabilized internationa…
Terror, the Strategic Tool: Response and Control
The United States appears ill prepared to deal with an emerging form of interstate rivalry, that is, the use of terror as an unconventional weapon to achieve conventional political ends. The terror event represents a powerful form of leverage simply because of its media value. Using media coverage to amplify their impact, acts of terrorist violence have paralyzed Western governments and undermined their credibility. In a destabilized internationa…
Terror, the Strategic Tool: Response and Control
The United States appears ill prepared to deal with an emerging form of interstate rivalry, that is, the use of terror as an unconventional weapon to achieve conventional political ends. The terror event represents a powerful form of leverage simply because of its media value. Using media coverage to amplify their impact, acts of terrorist violence have paralyzed Western governments and undermined their credibility. In a destabilized internationa…
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow—Nuclear Deterrence in the 1990s
The United States faces a curious yet profound dilemma: we want to reduce the world's nuclear weapons but do not know how to do so without increasing rather than decreasing the threat that these weapons will be used. More and better of everything is clearly no answer; but it is not axiomatic that less is always more secure. Indeed the danger with small nuclear forces is that even marginal alternation in agreed-upon numbers can create a possibly d…
Yesterday's Arms Control Will Not Prevent Nuclear War
Even as prospects for direct U.S.-Soviet confrontation have decreased, the potential for international collision almost everywhere else is on the rise. Although arms control remains an important long-term issue in superpower relations, the United States and Soviet Union face a more imminent danger of unwanted nuclear escalation through the actions of unstable, unpredictable, and well-armed states in the Third World. This suggests that a better U.…
Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Arms control (2 works) · Balance (ability (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)