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Narrativized Strategic Choice

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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.

Table of Contents

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

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Published 23 Jul 2020
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9781538143025
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 6 charts;
Dimensions 228 x 161 mm
Series Peace and Security in the 21st Century
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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