Defence Diplomacy: Strategic Engagement and Interstate Conflict
Author : Daniel H. Katz
Publisher : Routledge, 2021
ISBN : 9781032174235
Call Number : 355.031 KAT
Summary :
This book analyzes examples of strategic engagement in order to identify the factors which contribute to the success or failure of defence diplomacy in preventing interstate conflict. For more than a century, nations have engaged in defence diplomacy to cultivate mutual understanding and mitigate conflict. A subset of defence diplomacy is strategic engagement, defined as peacetime defence diplomacy between nations that are actual or potential adversaries. This book analyzes three cases of strategic engagement in order to elucidate the factors which contribute to the success or failure of this diplomacy in preventing conflict. It uses an inductive framework to compare strategic engagement in the following cases: Anglo—German defence diplomacy prior to World War I; U.S.—Soviet defence diplomacy during the Cold War; and post-Cold War U.S.—China defence diplomacy. Based upon archival, literature, and personal interview research, the book argues.