Michael Mccgwire
Biographic Data
| ID | 980434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mccgwire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccgwire |
| SIGNATURE | MCCGWIRE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brookings Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nato expansion
European security depends on the effective collaboration of the five major powers; it will be undermined by the extension of NATO, a policy driven by US domestic politics. The main threats to security are: the breakdown of political and economic stability; unintended nuclear proliferation and/or failure of the START process; Russia's evolving political and territorial aspirations. All three will remain marginal as long as Russia is constructively…
Nuclear deterrence1
Journal Article Nuclear deterrence Get access MICHAEL MCCGWIRE MICHAEL MCCGWIRE 1Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC from 1979 to 1990, before which he was Professor of Maritime and Strategic Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. His 25 years as a naval officer included service as a Moscow attaché, a NATO war planner, and heading up the Soviet naval section of British Defence Intelligence. He has been involved in the deba…
Comfort blanket or weapon of war
A hangover from the Cold War, Britain's nuclear capability has acquired a totemic quality and, in some unexplained way, is expected to shield us from unspecified dangers. There has been no serious attempt at cost—benefit analysis and such as there is ignores opportunity costs: policies or procurement foregone. The most important are political and the more significant—the things Britain could do or achieve if it did not have a nuclear capability—r…
The rise and fall of the NPT
Long seen as an unexpectedly successful example of international cooperation, the NPT is now like a wisdom tooth that is rotten at its root and the abscess is poisoning the international body politic. The price for agreement to the substance of the treaty was the inclusion of Article 6, which committed the Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons. With the strategic arms race underway, in 1968 the NWS saw Article…
Shifting the paradigm
Journal Article Shifting the paradigm Get access Michael MccGwire Michael MccGwire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00236 Published: 16 December 2002
The paradigm that lost its way
For those who call for a change in our approach to international relations ecause they doubt the capacity of the existing system to handle the problems hat lie ahead, the ‘paradigm’ they are seeking to ‘shift’ is usually some image of realism, that dates from Westphalia and beyond. Fortunately, the paradigm that actually shaped Western foreign policy behaviour in the last 50 years or so was a product of circumstances and personalities in the 1945…
Why did we bomb Belgrade
We are told that Kosovo marks a new era of humanitarian intervention, when promoting and protecting values will be reason enough for coercive military action. However, a review of the evidence, as outlined in this article, suggests that it was Western interests, rather than values, that led to the largely unintended bombing campaign. One can identify two objectives underlying NATO policy—one substantive and the other relating to image. It was the…
Nato expansion
European security depends on the effective collaboration of the five major powers; it will be undermined by the extension of NATO, a policy driven by US domestic politics. The main threats to security are: the breakdown of political and economic stability; unintended nuclear proliferation and/or failure of the START process; Russia's evolving political and territorial aspirations. All three will remain marginal as long as Russia is constructively…
Is there a future for nuclear weapons
To address this question, Michael MccGwire postulates two futures: a low-salience nuclear (LSN) world, as advocated by Michael Quinlan in his article; and a nuclear-weapons-free world. MccGwire bases his comparative assessment on the five tasks that Quinlan indentified as requiring a continuing Western nuclear capability and concludes that for only one of the five are nuclear weapons essential, and that one would lapse in an NWF world. Widening t…
Perestroika and Soviet National Security
Perestroika and Soviet National Security
The Middle East and Soviet Military Strategy
New Directions in Soviet Arms-Control Policy
A mutual security regime for Europe
Journal Article A mutual security regime for Europe? Get access Michael MccGwire Michael MccGwire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 3, Summer 1988, Pages 361–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622846 Published: 01 July 1988
Military objectives in Soviet foreign policy
Soviet Military Objectives
Drain the Bath but Spare the Child
Deterrence
(1986). Deterrence: The problem ‐ not the solution. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 9, Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy, pp. 25-42
Deterrence
(1986). Deterrence: The problem ‐ not the solution. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 9, Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy, pp. 25-42
Soviet military doctrine
Naval Power and Soviet Global Strategy
Soviet Intentions
Western and Soviet naval building Programmes 1965–1976
Admiral Gorshkov's ‘Navies in War and Peace’
The series of articles entitled 'Navies in War and Peace' by Soviet navy Commander-in-Chief, Admiral of the Fleet Sergey Gorshkov, are summarized and analyzed by three analysts of the Soviet navy. Their analyses cover several aspects of the Gorshkov articles: the possibility that they reveal an internal debate over Soviet naval missions and budgets, their implications for the future course of Soviet naval construction, and their meaning for the u…
Soviet naval programmes
Military objectives in Soviet foreign policy
Is there a future for nuclear weapons
To address this question, Michael MccGwire postulates two futures: a low-salience nuclear (LSN) world, as advocated by Michael Quinlan in his article; and a nuclear-weapons-free world. MccGwire bases his comparative assessment on the five tasks that Quinlan indentified as requiring a continuing Western nuclear capability and concludes that for only one of the five are nuclear weapons essential, and that one would lapse in an NWF world. Widening t…
Why did we bomb Belgrade
We are told that Kosovo marks a new era of humanitarian intervention, when promoting and protecting values will be reason enough for coercive military action. However, a review of the evidence, as outlined in this article, suggests that it was Western interests, rather than values, that led to the largely unintended bombing campaign. One can identify two objectives underlying NATO policy—one substantive and the other relating to image. It was the…
Shifting the paradigm
Journal Article Shifting the paradigm Get access Michael MccGwire Michael MccGwire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00236 Published: 16 December 2002
Nato expansion
European security depends on the effective collaboration of the five major powers; it will be undermined by the extension of NATO, a policy driven by US domestic politics. The main threats to security are: the breakdown of political and economic stability; unintended nuclear proliferation and/or failure of the START process; Russia's evolving political and territorial aspirations. All three will remain marginal as long as Russia is constructively…
Perestroika and Soviet National Security
Deterrence
(1986). Deterrence: The problem ‐ not the solution. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 9, Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy, pp. 25-42
The rise and fall of the NPT
Long seen as an unexpectedly successful example of international cooperation, the NPT is now like a wisdom tooth that is rotten at its root and the abscess is poisoning the international body politic. The price for agreement to the substance of the treaty was the inclusion of Article 6, which committed the Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons. With the strategic arms race underway, in 1968 the NWS saw Article…
Naval Power and Soviet Global Strategy
Nuclear deterrence1
Journal Article Nuclear deterrence Get access MICHAEL MCCGWIRE MICHAEL MCCGWIRE 1Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC from 1979 to 1990, before which he was Professor of Maritime and Strategic Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. His 25 years as a naval officer included service as a Moscow attaché, a NATO war planner, and heading up the Soviet naval section of British Defence Intelligence. He has been involved in the deba…
Comfort blanket or weapon of war
A hangover from the Cold War, Britain's nuclear capability has acquired a totemic quality and, in some unexplained way, is expected to shield us from unspecified dangers. There has been no serious attempt at cost—benefit analysis and such as there is ignores opportunity costs: policies or procurement foregone. The most important are political and the more significant—the things Britain could do or achieve if it did not have a nuclear capability—r…
The paradigm that lost its way
For those who call for a change in our approach to international relations ecause they doubt the capacity of the existing system to handle the problems hat lie ahead, the ‘paradigm’ they are seeking to ‘shift’ is usually some image of realism, that dates from Westphalia and beyond. Fortunately, the paradigm that actually shaped Western foreign policy behaviour in the last 50 years or so was a product of circumstances and personalities in the 1945…
Perestroika and Soviet National Security
A mutual security regime for Europe
Journal Article A mutual security regime for Europe? Get access Michael MccGwire Michael MccGwire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 3, Summer 1988, Pages 361–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622846 Published: 01 July 1988
Soviet Military Objectives
Soviet Intentions
The Mediterranean and Soviet Naval Interests
Soviet naval programmes
Admiral Gorshkov's ‘Navies in War and Peace’
The series of articles entitled 'Navies in War and Peace' by Soviet navy Commander-in-Chief, Admiral of the Fleet Sergey Gorshkov, are summarized and analyzed by three analysts of the Soviet navy. Their analyses cover several aspects of the Gorshkov articles: the possibility that they reveal an internal debate over Soviet naval missions and budgets, their implications for the future course of Soviet naval construction, and their meaning for the u…
Western and Soviet naval building Programmes 1965–1976
Naval Power and Soviet Global Strategy
Soviet Intentions
Soviet military doctrine
Deterrence
(1986). Deterrence: The problem ‐ not the solution. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 9, Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy, pp. 25-42
Deterrence
(1986). Deterrence: The problem ‐ not the solution. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 9, Dilemmas of Nuclear Strategy, pp. 25-42
Military objectives in Soviet foreign policy
Soviet Military Objectives
Drain the Bath but Spare the Child
The Middle East and Soviet Military Strategy
New Directions in Soviet Arms-Control Policy
A mutual security regime for Europe
Journal Article A mutual security regime for Europe? Get access Michael MccGwire Michael MccGwire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 3, Summer 1988, Pages 361–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622846 Published: 01 July 1988
Perestroika and Soviet National Security
Perestroika and Soviet National Security
Is there a future for nuclear weapons
To address this question, Michael MccGwire postulates two futures: a low-salience nuclear (LSN) world, as advocated by Michael Quinlan in his article; and a nuclear-weapons-free world. MccGwire bases his comparative assessment on the five tasks that Quinlan indentified as requiring a continuing Western nuclear capability and concludes that for only one of the five are nuclear weapons essential, and that one would lapse in an NWF world. Widening t…
Nato expansion
European security depends on the effective collaboration of the five major powers; it will be undermined by the extension of NATO, a policy driven by US domestic politics. The main threats to security are: the breakdown of political and economic stability; unintended nuclear proliferation and/or failure of the START process; Russia's evolving political and territorial aspirations. All three will remain marginal as long as Russia is constructively…
Why did we bomb Belgrade
We are told that Kosovo marks a new era of humanitarian intervention, when promoting and protecting values will be reason enough for coercive military action. However, a review of the evidence, as outlined in this article, suggests that it was Western interests, rather than values, that led to the largely unintended bombing campaign. One can identify two objectives underlying NATO policy—one substantive and the other relating to image. It was the…
The paradigm that lost its way
For those who call for a change in our approach to international relations ecause they doubt the capacity of the existing system to handle the problems hat lie ahead, the ‘paradigm’ they are seeking to ‘shift’ is usually some image of realism, that dates from Westphalia and beyond. Fortunately, the paradigm that actually shaped Western foreign policy behaviour in the last 50 years or so was a product of circumstances and personalities in the 1945…
Shifting the paradigm
Journal Article Shifting the paradigm Get access Michael MccGwire Michael MccGwire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00236 Published: 16 December 2002
The rise and fall of the NPT
Long seen as an unexpectedly successful example of international cooperation, the NPT is now like a wisdom tooth that is rotten at its root and the abscess is poisoning the international body politic. The price for agreement to the substance of the treaty was the inclusion of Article 6, which committed the Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons. With the strategic arms race underway, in 1968 the NWS saw Article…
Nuclear deterrence1
Journal Article Nuclear deterrence Get access MICHAEL MCCGWIRE MICHAEL MCCGWIRE 1Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC from 1979 to 1990, before which he was Professor of Maritime and Strategic Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. His 25 years as a naval officer included service as a Moscow attaché, a NATO war planner, and heading up the Soviet naval section of British Defence Intelligence. He has been involved in the deba…
Comfort blanket or weapon of war
A hangover from the Cold War, Britain's nuclear capability has acquired a totemic quality and, in some unexplained way, is expected to shield us from unspecified dangers. There has been no serious attempt at cost—benefit analysis and such as there is ignores opportunity costs: policies or procurement foregone. The most important are political and the more significant—the things Britain could do or achieve if it did not have a nuclear capability—r…
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