Dean Ensley Georgetown University

Dean Ensley Georgetown University

A

condition where either war between adversarial states does not occur, or an existing war does not escalate

 Attempts

to settle their conflict by military escalation constitute a clearly calculable and unacceptable risk

 Arms

race stability: the ability to maintain the status quo in an arms race

 Crisis

stability: the ability to maintain an effective military balance in the face of a threat

 Moving

world

from a bipolar to a multipolar

 The

influence of weapons of mass destruction on great power relations

 Arms

race and crisis stability simply isn’t enough anymore

 The

balance of power

1.

Our style of thinking

2.

Our conduct of foreign policy

3.

The focus of Strategic Stability theory