The Effects of Warning on Strategic Stability

by John D. Steinbruner and Bruce G. Blair

Among its many important effects, the political revolution in central Europe has provided a sharp reminder that international security is as much a state of mind as it is a physical condition. The threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, long hypothesized by Western defense ministries on the basis of a perceived imbalance in inherent conventional force capability, is now acknowledged to be a practical impossibility because shifts in political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815709390
• ISBN13: 9780815709398
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"