Use of Force

Robert J. Art is professor of international relations at Brandeis University. Kelly M. Greenhill is associate professor of political science at Tufts University and research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

For more than two decades, The Use of Force has been the 'go-to' book for both introductory and advanced courses in security studies. Like its distinguished predecessors, this new edition still combines classic theoretical articles and up-to-date analyses of critical contemporary issues. If you are going to assign one book to your students, this is the one.

• Preface PART I STRATEGIC AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS How Force Is Used1 The Fungibility of Force –Robert J. Art2 Deterrence and Compellence –Thomas C. Schelling3 The Sources of Military Doctrine –Barry R. Posen4 Offense, Defense, and Cooperation under the Security Dilemma –Robert JervisHow Force Should Be Used5 The Just War Tradition Revisited –Seyom Brown6 The Proportionality Principle in War –Laurie R. BlankForms of Coercion7 Nuclear Myths and Political Realities –Kenneth N. Waltz8 The Lost Logic of Deterrence –Richard K. Betts9 Coercive Diplomacy –Alexander L. George10 What Terrorists Want –Louise Richardson11 Forced Migration as a Coercive Instrument –Kelly M. GreenhillPART II CASE STUDIES The Great Power Era12 The Cult of the Offensive in 1914 –Jack L. Snyder13 Hitler and the Blitzkrieg Strategy –John J. Mearsheimer14 Japan’s Fatal Blunder –Sir George Sansom15 The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb –Louis MortonThe Superpower Era16 The Cuban Missile Crisis –David Welch, James G. Blight, and Bruce J. Allyn17 Flexible Response and the Vietnam War –John Lewis GaddisThe Unipolar Era18 The U. S. and Coercive Diplomacy –Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin19 The Second Iraq War –Peter R. Mansoor20 The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan –Karl W. EikenberryPART III CONTEMPORARY ISSUES The Projection of American Military Power21 The Strategy of Restraint –Barry R. Posen22 The Strategy of Deep Engagement –Stephen G. Brooks, G. John Ikenberry, and William C. Wohlforth23 Crisis Instability in US-China Relations –Avery Goldstein24 Why Drones Work –Daniel BymanThe Utility of Nuclear, Biological, and Cyber Weapons25 Nuclear Weapons and Conflict –Mark S. Bell and Nicholas L. Miller26 Pathogens as Weapons –Gregory Koblenz27 The Myth of Cyberwar –Erik GartzkeIntervention in Internal Conflicts28 Puttering with Primacy –Richard K. Betts29 Humanitarian Intervention Comes of Age –Jon Western and Joshua A. Goldstein30 Regime Change and Its Consequences –Alexander B. Downes31 Ten Ways to Lose at Counterinsurgency –Kelly M. Greenhill and Paul Staniland32 The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement –Barbara F. WalterPossible Future Developments33 The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups –Audrey Kurth Cronin34 A World Without Nuclear Weapons? –Thomas C. Schelling35 Law, Ethics, and Autonomous Weapons Systems –Kenneth Anderson and Matthew WaxmanAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Contributors