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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
5. Lessons of the Cold War
verfasst von : Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein
Erschienen in: Avoiding War, Making Peace
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Abstract
Contrary to the convention wisdom, Janice Stein and I argue that nuclear weapons and threats provoked rather than preventing the conflict between the superpowers for many of the reasons I lay out in Chap. 3. We further contend that minimal general deterrence was sufficient to restrain the superpowers, as neither was really discontent with the status quo and all leaders on both sides were terrified by the prospect of even a conventional war. Nuclear weapons and forward deployments were a consequence of the Cold War, but after the Helsinki Accords resolved any territorial conflict in Europe, they became the major cause of continuing conflict.