Concept information
Preferred term
conventional deterrence
Definition
- Deterrence is a strategy by which one actor, such as a government or state, attempts to prevent another actor from taking a particular course of action. Deterrence has been most closely associated with so-called weapons of mass destruction: one state has threatened another state to deter that state from taking a particular course of action by threatening to inflict great damage as a consequence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Conventional Deterrence]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/conventional_deterrence
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