Containing Financial Turmoil

Deterring Arab Democracy

Containment Begins at Home

Containment, not Appeasement

That strategy is containment.

This would raise the stakes for Chinese border violations, thereby boosting deterrence.

Israel s nuclear deterrence is its ultimate defense against an existential threat.

Containment against Libya was not appeasement.

Now, one way of dealing with this problem is by deterrence.

Containment is hardly a relic of the Cold War.

This would offer the double benefit of capturing greenhouse gas pollution and saving the world s wildlife from oblivion.

The first option should be deterrence of further aggression through diplomacy.

But deterrence requires a credible threat of response against an attacker.

Development is about change, but repression prevents change.

Only China, by its behavior, could organize the containment of China by others.

The problem, of course, is that deterrence sometimes fails.

Containment of Iraq by intervention is the method that now seems most likely.

Containing China is not the answer to Asia s security questions.

Indeed, containing Iran while thwarting its nuclear ambitions is the single most urgent priority for today s cash strapped American superpower.

Deflation should not be hard to check, with sound policy.

In Europe, the movement to stop inflows of migrants from Muslim countries is extremely popular.

Whereas the US and the Soviet Union had limited trade and social contact, the US is China s largest overseas market, welcomed and facilitated China s entry into the World Trade Organization, and opens its universities gates to 125,000 Chinese students each year. If current US policy towards China is supposed to be Cold War style containment, it seems unusually warm.

If current US policy towards China is supposed to be Cold War style containment, it seems unusually warm.

It is a mistake, however, to believe that extended deterrence depends on parity in numbers of nuclear weapons.

Stemming the spread of this deadly trio of diseases is the linchpin in the global fight against poverty.

A powerful argument for reserving capital punishment for murders is marginal deterrence.

Containing a disease or a terrorist threat by curtailing international travel or transport would devastate the world economy.

Sensible deterrence, bold efforts to reform international institutions, and a readiness to fulfill responsibilities have all fallen victim to the West s exaggerated sense of failure and political stalemate.

Indeed, in some young democracies, or more volatile cultures, the suspension of personal feeling is not always successfully maintained.

In the run up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration rejected containment as an obsolete Cold War hangover.

But, among states, even nuclear deterrence was more complex than it first looked, and that is doubly true of deterrence in the cyber domain.

In that event, there remains the hope that mutual nuclear deterrence will promote mutual common sense.

On one hand, wage restraint was the key element, though the government could not impose it.

One of two things will happen either tighter containment of Iran through sanctions on oil exports will produce positive results and weaken Iran, or containment will fail, leading the US inexorably toward a new war in the Middle East.

Some people argue that deterrence does not work in cyberspace, owing to the difficulties of attribution. But that is facile inadequate attribution affects inter state deterrence as well, yet it still operates.

In fact, Israel persistently conflates self defense and deterrence, while employing collective punishment to advance its strategic aims.

Some people argue that deterrence does not work in cyberspace, owing to the difficulties of attribution.

If we are actually serious about grand promises to keep global temperature rises below 2ºC, we obviously need to find ways of making this cheaper.

Even when the source of an attack can be successfully disguised under a false flag, governments may find themselves sufficiently enmeshed in symmetrically interdependent relationships such that a major attack would be counterproductive.

Supporters of the US administration might fairly argue that it is undertaking long deferred maintenance on issues such as income inequality.

But that biblical adage was in fact invoked originally to curb blood feuds from claiming the innocent relatives of the person who committed the killing.

After all, Cold War containment of the USSR meant virtually no trade and little social contact.

But the sole purpose of retaining some degree of deterrence will be to deter the use of nuclear weapons.

But that is facile inadequate attribution affects inter state deterrence as well, yet it still operates.

With the end of the Cold War, the containment of the Soviet Union ushered in by Kissinger s visit could no longer serve as the basis for US China relations.