PDF Assessing Assertions of Assertiveness Download
- Author: Stephan De Spiegeleire
- Publisher: The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
- ISBN: 9491040960
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- Languages : en
- Pages : 67
This study points to worrying trends in how far two great power contenders, Russia and China, have been willing to go to assert themselves in the international arena. It concludes that increased willingness to resort to brinkmanship has heightened the danger of a ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’-type event that could spiral into uncontrollable escalation.