China’s Naval Power Buildup and Security Dilemma

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-284
Author(s):  
Jae-Jun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Security Dilemma ◽  
Naval Power

The Afghanistan Crisis and Pakistan's Security Dilemma

Asian Survey ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Security Dilemma

The Military Resources of the Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Morgan-Owen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Army ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Strategic Thought ◽  
The Military

Historians have argued that the British Army was afflicted with an insular focus on home defence in the late nineteenth century and that this preoccupation was evidence of the paucity of military strategic thought and the lack of co-operation and dialogue between the two services. This chapter challenges that viewpoint and argues that the military leadership was, in fact, consistently much more interested in preparing for operations overseas than it was in planning to prevent an invasion. The military authorities were only deflected from this aim by differences of opinion with the Admiralty on the application of naval power and on the Navy’s inability to commit to the safe passage of troops by sea, disagreements which obliged the War Office to limit the scope of its strategic discourse. This had significant implications for both military and imperial policy, particularly the defence of India.

Enemy Images

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Security Dilemma ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Military

This chapter examines how enemy images are produced and reproduced in relations between two enemies. It identifies four drivers of security competition that block the development of trust. These are: (1) the security dilemma; (2) the problem of offence–defence differentiation; (3) peaceful/defensive self-images; (4) ideological fundamentalism; and (5) uncertainty about future intentions. Using examples such as the military stand-off on the Korean peninsula and the Libyan dismantlement of weapons of mass destruction, the chapter shows how hard it is for face-to-face diplomacy to change enemy images. It also examines the problem of ‘future uncertainty’—the problem of what happens if successor leaders do not share the trust of their predecessors and have malign intent.

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