Military Exercises and the Dangers of Misunderstandings: the East-West Crisis of the Early 1980s

This article analyzes the risks of mutual misunderstanding caused by NATO and the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) large-scale military command-and-staff exercises in 1983. The problem of mutual misunderstanding is analyzed in the context of the classic «Security Dilemma» elaborated in 1951 by J. Ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: B Heuser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2016-12-01
Series:Vestnik RUDN International Relations
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/14758