Strategic Thinking, Deterrence and the US Ballistic Missile Defense Project : From Truman to Obama (Hardcover, New ed)

Chapter 1 Deterrence Theory, World Order and Missile Defense; Chapter 2 The Emergence of the Missile Defense Project after 1945; Chapter 3 Holding the Line Against the Nuclear Warfighters? The Clinton Administration and the Containment of Rogue States; Chapter 4 The Paradigm Shift: The George W. Bush Administration’s Embrace of Missile Defense; Chapter 5 Finding the Middle Ground? The Obama Administration’s Consolidation and Expansion of Missile Defense; Chapter 6 Destabilizing Great Power Relations: Russian and Chinese Hard Balancing against US Missile Defense; Chapter 7 The Contours of the Missile Defense Debate in the Twenty-first Century; Chapter 8 The Persistence of the Missile Defense Project: Domestic and Systemic Drivers;