John P. DeRosa

Narrativized Strategic Choice (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In February 2019, Donald Trump announced the United States withdrew from the landmark Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia sparking worldwide concerns over the specter of a new nuclear arms race. The rational-actor and game-theoretic models dominating international relations literature failed to predict or explain this strategic choice. Rationalist, normative, and materialist models of strategic choice saturate the study of international relations. Scholars continue to expose the shortfalls in these approaches in explaining or predicting outcomes of strategic interactions. In this timely study, John P. DeRosa advances a new model of strategic choice through a narrative lens. This narrative turn reframes the logic to emphasize the propositions of motives, perceptions, preferences, and the reflexive interaction of strategic choices. Case studies of American and Russian nuclear arms control treaties from the negotiations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1987 to the crisis of the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty in 2019 support building a theory of "narrativized" strategic choice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538143032
• Artikelnr.: 59807785

Autorenporträt

John P. DeRosa is an affiliated faculty with the Narrative Lab and Clinic at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Government and Politics of the University of Maryland Global Campus. He has served more than twenty-five years as a soldier, officer, and civilian in the US Department of Defense.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Strategic Choice: The Orthodoxy
Chapter 2. Strategic Choice: A Narrative Turn
Chapter 3. Preface and Prelude to Case Studies
Chapter 4. Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Chapter 5. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Chapter 6. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II
Chapter 7. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty III
Chapter 8. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Withdrawal and Strategic Offensive
Arms Reduction
Treaty
Chapter 9. New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Chapter 10. Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty Withdrawal
Chapter 11. Conclusion
Appendix: Sources of Critical Conversations
References