THE RUSSIAN WAY OF DETERRENCE

Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War DMITRY (DIMA)

ADAMSKY

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular explores the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire during this period—an influence perpetuated both by the efforts of the imperial state from afar, and by its former subjects in Bosnia Herzegovina. Prominent members of the Ottoman imperial polity under occupation, Bosnian Muslims became minority subjects of Austria-Hungary, and developed a relationship with the new authorities in Vienna while transforming their interactions with Istanbul and the rest of the Muslim world. Amzi-Erdoğdular highlights Muslim agency, demonstrating that in addition to Habsburg and Ottoman policies, it was also Muslims’ own endeavors that shaped their self-perceptions, community organization, and institutions. Their efforts influenced imperial considerations and policies on occupation, sovereignty, minorities, and migration.

This book is a product of multilingual research and draws on Eastern European and Ottoman primary material and historiographies. Introducing Ottoman sources for the first time into the study of the Habsburg period in Bosnia, this book traces transregional connections and networks across empires bridging Ottoman, Islamic, Middle Eastern, and Balkan studies. Amzi-Erdoğdular tells the story of Muslims who redefined their place and influence in both empires and the modern world, to argue for the centrality of Islamic intellectual history within the history of Bosnia Herzegovina and Eastern Europe.

Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University Newark.

From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates Russia’s approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of this strategy. Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky calls deterrence à la Russe, is one of the main tools of Russian statecraft. Adamsky deftly describes the genealogy of the Russian approach to coercion and highlights the cultural, ideational, and historical factors that have shaped it in the nuclear, conventional, and informational domains. Drawing on extensive research on Russian strategic culture, Adamsky highlights several empirical and theoretical peculiarities of the Russian coercion strategy, including how this strategy relates to the war in Ukraine. Exploring the evolution of strategic deterrence, along with its sources and prospective avenues of development, Adamsky provides a comprehensive intellectual history that makes it possible to understand the deep mechanics of this Russian stratagem, the current and prospective patterns of the Kremlin’s coercive conduct, and the implications for policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky, Professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya) in Israel, and visiting professor at the Vytuatas Magnus University. He is the author of Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy (Stanford, 2019) and The Culture of Military Innovation (Stanford, 2010).

Stanford Studies On Central And Eastern Europe

DECEMBER 2023 336 pages | 6 x 9

10 halftones, 2 maps

Cloth $75.00 (£65.00) SDT 9781503636705 eBook 9781503637245

History

OCTOBER 2023 228 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $25.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503637825

Cloth $85.00 (£73.00) SDT 9781503630871 eBook 9781503637832

International Affairs

Death Dust

The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

WILLIAM C. POTTER, SARAH BIDGOOD, SAMUEL MEYER, and HANNA NOTTE

The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)—weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation—through a series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt. The authors illuminate the historical drivers of and impediments to radiological weapons innovation. They also examine how new, dire geopolitical events—such as the war in Ukraine—could encourage other states to pursue RW and analyze the impact of the spread of such weapons on nuclear deterrence and the nonproliferation regime. Death Dust presents practical, necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of a resurgence of interest in and pursuit of radiological weapons by state actors.

William C. Potter is Founding Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS).

Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at CNS.

Samuel Meyer is an Analyst at the Office of Radiological Security, U.S. Department of Energy.

Hanna Notte is a Senior Research Associate with the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.