Press, Daryl Grayson.

Calculating credibility : how leaders evaluate military threats / Daryl G. Press. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2005. - ix, 218 p. ; 24 cm. - Cornell studies in security affairs .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theories of credibility -- The "appeasement" crises : German assessments of British and French credibility, 1938-39 -- Crises over Berlin : American and British assessments of Soviet credibility, 1958-61 -- Missiles in Cuba : American assessments of Soviet credibility, 1962.

9780801443435 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801443431 (cloth : alk. paper)

2005012279


International relations--Risk assessment--Case studies.
Threats--Evaluation--Case studies.
World War, 1939-1945--Causes.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.


Berlin (Germany)--History--1945-1990.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

JZ 6374 / P935c 2005

355.02