Complex deterrence : strategy in the global age / edited by T.V. Paul, Patrick M. Morgan, and James J. Wirtz.

Papers presented at a conference at McGill University in Montréal in May 2007..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Complex deterrence: an introduction / T.V. Paul -- Three items in one: deterrence as concept, research program, and political issue / Jeffrey W. Knopf -- Rational deterrence against "irrational" adversaries? No common knowledge / Janice Gross Stein -- Complex deterrence in the asymmetric-warfare era / Emanuel Adler -- Deterring nuclear terrorists / S. Paul Kapur -- Deterrence, rogue states, and the U.S. policy / Robert Jervis -- Collective-actor deterrrence / Patrick M. Morgan -- Complexity of deterrence among new nuclear states: the India-Pakistan case / Dinshaw Mistry -- Unconventional deterrence: how the weak deter the strong / Ivan Arreguín-Toft -- Deterrence and compellence in Iraq, 1991-2003: lessons for a complex paradigm / Frank P. Harvey and Patrick James -- Deterrence among great powers in an era of globalization / Patrick M. Morgan and T.V. Paul -- The endurance of extended deterrence: continuity, change, and complexity in theory and policy / Timothy W. Crawford -- The revolution in military affairs: impact of emerging technologies on detererrence / Michel Fortmann and Stéfanie von Hlatky.