Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy by Philip BobbittReview by: Gregory F. TrevertonForeign Affairs, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Fall, 1987), p. 190Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043301 .

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190 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

NATIONAL NEGOTIATING STYLES. Edited by Hans Bennendijk. Washington: Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service

Institute, 1987, 147 pp. The Foreign Service Institute has made a number of studies of the art

and practice of negotiation, of which this slim volume is an outstanding example. It contains essays on the negotiating styles of China, Japan, Russia, France, Egypt and Mexico, each written from a background of diplomatic experience, scholarly expertise or both. They may not provide an aspiring diplomat with all the guidance necessary for successful negotiation with fellow diplomats of those six countries, but there are many useful lessons here both for those engaged in the practice of diplomacy and for those who

study and seek to understand it.

ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: VOL. I. Edited by Robert J. Myers. New York: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs,

1987, 223 pp. $10.00. This first volume of what is planned as an annual publication is noted

here because of its serious treatment of an important and neglected subject, the quality of the contributors (authors include Jacques Barzun, Stanley

Hoffmann and Ali Mazrui), and the editorial policy of openness to differing views.

General: Military, Technological and Scientific

Gregory F. Treverton

DEMOCRACY AND DETERRENCE: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF NUCLEAR STRATEGY. By Philip Bobbin. New York: St. Martin's,

1987, 325 pp. $35.00 (paper, $14.95). This is an important, difficult book in an area where fresh perspective

seems improbable. Deterring a Soviet nuclear attack on the American homeland has always been a relatively undemanding task, and so American

strategic planning has been driven by the problem of extending nuclear

protection to Western Europe and Japan. "Crises of vulnerability" did not affect homeland-to-homeland deterrence but did create tensions in ex

tended deterrence; when those tensions were addressed through innovation in strategic doctrine, the result did change the central relationship. The

latest vulnerability is more portentous because it arises not from "techno

logical or operational developments but from the growing social alienation of the democratic publics from the policy of nuclear deterrence."

EXTENDED DETERRENCE: THE UNITED STATES AND NATO EUROPE. By Stephen J. Cimbala. Lexington (Mass.): Lexington Books,

1987, 229 pp. $32.00. This is more a collection of essays than a book, but Cimbala is thoughtful

and open-minded; he understands the interconnection of American stra

tegic forces and deterrence in Europe. In that regard, his discussion of the

implications of strategic defense for NATO, although scattered throughout several places in the book, is thorough and provocative.

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