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Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 320 pages | ISBN 9780670019014 | 14 Aug 2008 | Viking Adult | 18 - AND UP |
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In Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror, Jonathan Stevenson, who has contemplated strategy and terrorism from Somalia’s rubble and Belfast’s streets to the U.S. Navy’s current forums on deterrence, examines what it was about the strategic thinking of the Cold War era that worked and looks at how it can be applied to the war on terror. Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable urges that we consider what worked strategically during the Cold War and determine how we can use it in today’s dangerous but very different global environment. In particular, the Cold War taught us that deterrence works best when your adversary has something of value to protect, whether it be citizens of its country or its political or religious viability. Thus, one of Stevenson’s most enlightening, if counterintuitive, suggestions is that radical Islamists should be subtly encouraged to participate in non-violent politics and to earn a stake in states and constituencies that they would be reluctant to jeopardize by committing acts of terror. Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable looks sharply at what was great and what was not about the intellectual twists of the Cold War, with an eye towards helping a new generation of strategists navigate, and eventually end, an age of terror.
Connecticut Book Award
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