Dangerous Thresholds: Managing Escalation in the 21st Century / Edition 1 in Bloomington, MN

Escalation is a natural tendency in any form of human competition, and today1s security environment demands that the United States be prepared for a host of escalatory threats. This analysis of escalation dynamics and approaches to escalation management draws on a range of historical examples from World War I through Somalia in the early 1990s to inform escalation-related decisionmaking.