What History Can Teach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Cameron (0000-0003-2816-1319, Institute of the Americas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 149 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 116-132 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_01793 |
| OpenAlex | W3013215355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Most analyses of arms control during the Cold War focus on its role in maintaining strategic stability between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, history shows that the superpowers' search for strategic stability is insufficient to explain the roots and course of negotiations. This essay argues that arms control was used as one tool in a broader strategy of war prevention, designed to contain a series of challenges to U.S. and Soviet dominance of the international system that both sides worried could upset bipolarity and increase the chances of conflict between them. At the same time, U.S. policy-makers balanced this joint superpower interest with Washington's extended deterrent commitment to its allies, which ultimately upheld the integrity of the system as a whole. The essay concludes that today's leaders should integrate arms control into a more comprehensive strategy of political accommodation fit for twenty-first-century conditions
Accommodation · Arms control · Cold war · Dominance (genetics · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Superpower · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |