Dominoes and Bandwagons by Robert Jervis
The domino theory has been the central organizing concept behind American containment strategy in the postwar period. This strategy was behind the involvement of America in the wars in Korea and Vietnam: neither country was of great economic, military, or cultural value to the US, yet policy-makers assumed that defeats against these nations might create precedents for areas of greater intrinsic interest. In this collection, Stephen Walt, Ted Hopf, Douglas Blum, Milan Hauner, the editors, and others, address crucial issues about the strategic beliefs that shape the competition between the superpowers in the Eurasian rimland.
'The aim of this fascinating book is to shed light on domino and bandwagon theory, and the contributors do an excellent job of achieving that objective.. the book is a first-class addition to the literature, which has the particular virtue of being open-ended in clarifying a host of issues for further research. Eric Herring, University of ristol, Pacific Review
Adlai E. Stevenson is played by Robert Jervis. Columbia University's Stevenson Professor of International Politics He's also written six more books and over a hundred professional articles. The Grawemeyer Prize for finest book on international order went to his The Significance of the Nuclear Revolution. He is a consultant to various government organizations and is a previous President of the American Political Science Association.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195062465 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195062469 |
| Title | Dominoes and Bandwagons |
| Author | Robert Jervis |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1991-06-27 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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