POWER ASYMMETRY AND MILITARY STRENGTH

: Military Power

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The Role of Strength and Power in High Intensity Military Relevant Tasks

The Long-Run Dynamic of the Nexus between Military Strength and National Power: An Econometric Analysis

A number of literatures suggest that military strength has been losing centrality and importance to nonmilitary factors of national power. In this paper, logistic regressions and data from the Correlates of War COW project are used to investigate whether over the 1820–2000 time horizon, for the great powers and their proximate contenders, the importance of military capabilities to national powe...

Problems of Estimating Military Power

Nuclear Brinkmanship, Limited War, and Military Power*

An open question in nuclear deterrence theory is whether and how the balance of military power affects the dynamics of escalation. The balance of military strength plays virtually no role in standard accounts of brinkmanship. But this largely by assumption and seems incompatible with an apparent trade-off between power and risk that decision makers faced in some actual crises. This paper incorp...