Strategic Defences in the 1990s: Criteria for Deployment

by Ivo H. Daalder

Challenges the claims of the military industry that even more forces are needed after the Cold War, to guard against the threat of ex-Soviet missiles in the hands of rogue leaders, and the proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons in the third world. Daalder (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London) says the deployment of strategic defenses is strategically undesirable, technically unfeasible, and economically unaffordable. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

162 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1991

About the author

Ivo Daalder served on the national security council staff in the Clinton administration and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (with James M. Lindsay) won the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize.

Daalder was educated at the University of Kent, Oxford University, and Georgetown University, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was fellow at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He received a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs and an International Affairs Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Daalder was an associate professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, where he was also director of research at the Center for International and Security Studies. He was a Senior Fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2009, where he was a specialist in European security, transatlantic relations, and national security affairs.