Crisis Management

One of the most prominent characteristics of an adolescent discipline is that it encompasses a large number of areas which have not been subjected to careful and comprehensive examination. International politics is such a discipline, and the study of crisis management has long retained this ’Cinderella’ status within it. Even during the 1950s when theories of deterrence, limited war, and arms control were being developed in abundance, comparatively little attention was given to the dangers arising from crises and none at all to the problem of how such dangers could be ameliorated. This situation seemed to have improved after October