Titlebook: International Crisis and Conflict; Richard Clutterbuck Book 1993 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1993 confl

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collateral

The Balance of Powersecurity. Only the rise of Stalin and Hitler (see Chapter 5) has been comparable in its effects. Both times, as the dust settled, there was a sigh of relief and a cry of ‘never again’; both prompted an anxious search for collective security.

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The Outbreak of the First World War for allowing it to happen. The American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War and the development of weapons — of artillery and of the first fully automatic machine-gun (1884) — can have left them in little doubt that heavy casualties would result. They did, however, genuinely envisage warfare in term

征服

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控制

Cuba 1962r, their Vienna summit meeting in June 1961 and Kennedy’s inability to prevent the building of the Berlin Wall in August (see pp. 91–2). He believed that he would be able to redress his disadvantage in global missile deployment by installing Medium and Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs an

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Outspoken

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The Vietnam Warven than Mao’s own fifteen-year campaign against Chiang Kai-shek in China, which was obscured by the intervention of Japan and the impact of the Second World War. There was no such interference in the Viet Minh’s war of liberation in North Vietnam in 1946–54.