Can Arms Races Lead to the Outbreak of War?

Michael Intriligator and Dagobert L. Brito
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Dagobert L. Brito: Tulane University

Chapter 9 in The Economics of Military Expenditures, 1987, pp 180-196 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The relationships between an arms race and the outbreak of war have been debated over many years. Indeed, the question of war outbreak is the most basic and fundamental one in any study of arms races. This question obviously carries much more urgency when it becomes that of whether a nuclear arms race might lead to a nuclear war. That is the focus of the present paper: the relationships between a nuclear arms race and the outbreak of nuclear war in a bipolar world of two nuclear powers. The paper also presents a specific application to the United States-Soviet Union arms race of the post-war period.

Keywords: Grand Strategy; Maximum Acceptable Level; Armament Dynamics; Defence Planner; Bipolar World (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08919-2_9

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