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Betts, Richard Kevin was born on August 15, 1947 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Rickards and Cecelia Agnes (Fitzpatrick) Betts.
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Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises
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Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crisis explores, in fascinating depth, the nature, direction, and impact of military and civilian influence on violence. Richard K. Betts discusses the post-war involvement of U.S. military and nonmilitary leaders in decisions on the use of force in foreign affairs, and the variety of advice from the different military services. Twenty intervention decisions and ten escalation desicions in crises are examined, including Korea, Berlin, Cuba, and Vietnam. To update this edition Betts has written a preface analyzing the significance of the issues in light of the evolution of events and information declassified since the book's original publication. He has also written an epilogue discussing several recent cases.
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Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning
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Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance
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In numerous crises after World War II--Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East--the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese military action. On a few occasions the Soviet Union also engaged in nuclear saber-ratling. Using declassified documents and other sources, this volume examines those crises and compares the decisionmaking processes of leaders who considered nuclear threats with the commonly accepted logic of nuclear deterrence and coercion. Rejecting standard explanations of our leader's logic in these cases, Betts suggests that U.S. presidents were neither consciously blufffing when they made nuclear threats, nor prepared to face the consequences if their threats failed. The author also challenges the myth that the 1950s was a golden age of low vulberability for the nted Stateas and details how nuclear parity has, and has not, altered conditions that gave rise to nuclear blackmail in the past.
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Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences
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Throughout most of American history, US military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles. During the Cold War, for the first time, US defence policy tried to maintain high readiness in peacetime. But now, with the Cold War over and defence budgets falling, what will happwn to US military forces? Will they revert to a state of unpreparedness or find their balance? Politicians and military planners alike have found this crucial issue especially difficult to deal with because they have often misunderstood what unreadiness really means. In this book, security expert, Ricahrd Betts analyzes why attempts to maximize combat readiness often have counterproductive effects, and how confusions in technical concepts cause political controversy. The book explores conflicts between two objectives that are both vital but work against each other because they compete for resources: operational readiness to fight immediately, and structural readiness - the number of organized units that increase military power, but require time during a crisis to gear up for combat. Betts also discusses the problem brought on by the Cold War and plunging defence budgets: mobilization readiness - the plans and arrangements needed to shorten the time for recreating a large military if it once again becomes necessary. Betts offers new ideas for understanding the dilemmas and tradeoffs that underlie debates on how readiness should be maintained in peacetime, and he explores the strategic consequences of different choices.
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Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
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Combining study with experience, Richard K. Betts draws on three decades of work within the U.S. intelligence community to illuminate the paradoxes and problems that frustrate the intelligence process. Unlike America's efforts to improve its defenses against natural disasters, strengthening its strategic assessment capabilities means outwitting crafty enemies who operate beyond U.S. borders. It also requires looking within to the organizational and political dynamics of collecting information and determining its implications for policy. Betts outlines key strategies for better intelligence gathering and assessment. He describes how fixing one malfunction can create another; in what ways expertise can be both a vital tool and a source of error and misjudgment; the pitfalls of always striving for accuracy in intelligence, which in some cases can render it worthless; the danger, though unavoidable, of "politicizing" intelligence; and the issue of secrecy& mdash;when it is excessive, when it is insufficient, and how limiting privacy can in fact protect civil liberties. Grounding his arguments in extensive theory and policy analysis, Betts takes a comprehensive and realistic look at the convergence of knowledge and power in facing the intelligence challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace
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Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take. Conflict After the Cold War encourages closer scrutiny of the political, economic, social, and military factors that drive war and peace.
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Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, 3rd Edition
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Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts’ Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings that argue about the shape of international conflict in this post-Cold War and post-9/11 era. Contextualized within a broader philosophical and historical context, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader introduce students to the core debates about the causes and the future of war and peace. Through the precision of its approach and attention to new issues, this reader challenges conventional wisdom and encourages more critical examination of the political, economic, social, and military factors that underlie political violence.
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Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace by Betts, Richard K. [Pearson, 2012] ( Paperback ) 4th edition [Paperback]
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Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition (2nd Edition)
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Edited by one of the most renowned experts in the field, this collection helps readers understand the causes of wars and examines the question: can we make war obsolete? With new readings on terrorism and unconventional warfare, this volume introduces readers to the types of political violence that have come back with such horrifying force in the beginning of the 21st Century. DOES WAR HAVE A FUTURE?; ANARCHY AND POWER; INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATION; PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE; ECONOMIC INTERESTS AND INTERDEPENDENCE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITY; MILITARY TECHNOLOGY; TERRORISM AND UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE. Anyone interested in understanding why political violence—terrorism, warfare, unconventional warfare—happens and if it can be stopped.
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The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War
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High proportions of young adults, rapidly growing cities, scarcities of cropland and water, and HIV/AIDS prevalence may contribute significantly to the risk of deadly civil conflict. Sound population policies, centered around provision of reproductive health services for all who want them, can play an important role in advancing global security
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The Little Seagull Handbook (Second Edition)
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A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers the kinds of writing college students need to do. The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.
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The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Second Edition)
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A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers the kinds of writing college students need to do. The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.
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Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel: Essays in Honour of Michael I. Handel by Richard K. Betts (Editor), Thomas Mahnken (Editor) (1-Aug-2003) Paperback
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Cruise Missile Penaid Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of Countermeasures Against Cruise Missile Defenses
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An attacker's missile-borne countermeasures to cruise missile defenses are known as penetration aids, or penaids. To support efforts to prevent the proliferation of penaid-related items, this research recommends controls on potential exports according to the structure of the international Missile Technology Control Regime.
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Conflict After Cold War: Arguments On Causes Of War And Peace- (Value Pack w/MySearchLab) (3rd Edition)
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MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself—including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts’ Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings that argue about the shape of international conflict in this post-Cold War and post-9/11 era. Contextualized within a broader philosophical and historical context, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader introduce students to the core debates about the causes and the future of war and peace. Through the precision of its approach and attention to new issues, this reader challenges conventional wisdom and encourages more critical examination of the political, economic, social, and military factors that underlie political violence.
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Conflict after the Cold War, Updated Second Edition
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Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace 4th edition by Betts, Richard K. (2012) Paperback
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Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security 2.11.2009 edition by Betts, Richard K. (2009) Paperback
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Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security by Betts, Richard K. (2007) Hardcover
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Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences Paperback - March 1, 1995
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Terror in Our Time: the Secret Service of Surprise Attack
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NY 1941 1st Longmans, Green. True tales of espionage. 8vo., 438pp., index, hardcover. Good, spine mottled, no DJ.
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Terror in our time; the secret service of surprise attack
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Terror in our time; the secret service of surprise attack - Primary Source Edition
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- Application of Bayesian Reliability Concepts to Cruise Missile Electronic Components
- Conflict After The Cold War Arguments On Causes Of War And Peace
- Cruise Missile Penaid Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of Countermeasures Against Cruise Missile Defensesr
- Cruise Missiles and U.S. Policy (Studies in Defense Policy)
- Terror in our time; the secret service of surprise attack 1941 [Hardcover] (Lang:- eng, Pages 458 . Reprinted in 2015 with the help o...)
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- Author: Soldiers, Statesmen and Cold War Crises, 1977 (second edition 1991, Lasswell award 1979), Surprise Attack, 1982, Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance, 1987, Military Readiness, 1995, Enemies of Intelligence, 2007. Co-author: The Irony of Vietnam, 1979 (Woodrow Wilson award 1980), Nonproliferation and United States Foreign Policy, 1980. Editor: Cruise Missiles, 1981, Conflict After the Cold War, 1994, second edition, 2001, Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence, 2003.
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Education
Bachelor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969. Master of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975.
Career
Lecturer in government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1976;
visiting professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985-1988;
research associate, Brookings Institution, Washington, 1976-1981;
senior fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, 1981-1990;
Shifrin professor political scientific, director Institute War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, New York City, since 1990;
director national securities studies, Council on Foreign Rels., since 1996. Member of staff Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington, 1975-1976, National Security Council, Washington, 1977. Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins University, Washington, 1978-1985, 88-90.
Military advisory panel Director Center Intelligence, since 1993. Consultant Central Intelligence Agency, 1980-1991, 93-, commission roles and capabilities United States Intelligence Cmty., 1995-1996. Occasion lecturer National War College, Foreign Superior vena cava syndrome Institute, United States Military Academy.
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Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition (2nd Edition)
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Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, 3rd Edition
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Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance
(In numerous crises after World War II--Berlin, Korea, the...)
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[ Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace By Richard K Betts ( Author ) Paperback 2012 ]
(Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War a...)
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Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace
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The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War
(High proportions of young adults, rapidly growing cities,...)
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Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences
(Throughout most of American history, US military forces p...)
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Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises
( Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crisis explores, in f...)
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Conflict After Cold War: Arguments On Causes Of War And Peace- (Value Pack w/MySearchLab) (3rd Edition)
( MySearchLab provides students with a complete understan...)
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Cruise Missile Penaid Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of Countermeasures Against Cruise Missile Defenses
(An attacker's missile-borne countermeasures to cruise mis...)
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The Little Seagull Handbook (Second Edition)
( A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers t...)
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The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Second Edition)
( A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers t...)
- Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace by Betts, Richard K. [Pearson, 2012] ( Paperback ) 4th edition [Paperback]
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Terror in our time; the secret service of surprise attack
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Terror in our time; the secret service of surprise attack - Primary Source Edition
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
( Combining study with experience, Richard K. Betts draws...)
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Terror in Our Time: the Secret Service of Surprise Attack
(NY 1941 1st Longmans, Green. True tales of espionage. 8vo...)
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Terror in our time; the secret service of surprise attack 1941 [Hardcover]
(Lang:- eng, Pages 458 . Reprinted in 2015 with the help o...)
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Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning
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Soldiers Statesmen and Cold War Crises 1977 Harvard University Press hardback
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- Conflict After Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace 3th (third) edition
- Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel: Essays in Honour of Michael I. Handel by Richard K. Betts (Editor), Thomas Mahnken (Editor) (1-Aug-2003) Paperback
- Conflict after the Cold War, Updated Second Edition
- Application of Bayesian Reliability Concepts to Cruise Missile Electronic Components
- Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace 4th edition by Betts, Richard K. (2012) Paperback
- Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security 2.11.2009 edition by Betts, Richard K. (2009) Paperback
- [ Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security ] By Betts, Richard K ( Author ) [ 2009 ) [ Paperback ]
- Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security by Betts, Richard K. (2007) Hardcover
- Conflict After The Cold War Arguments On Causes Of War And Peace
- Cruise Missile Penaid Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of Countermeasures Against Cruise Missile Defensesr
- Cruise Missiles and U.S. Policy (Studies in Defense Policy)
- Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences Paperback - March 1, 1995
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Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition (2nd Edition)
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Author: Soldiers, Statesmen and Cold War Crises, 1977 (second edition 1991, Lasswell award 1979), Surprise Attack, 1982, Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance, 1987, Military Readiness, 1995, Enemies of Intelligence, 2007. Co-author: The Irony of Vietnam, 1979 (Woodrow Wilson award 1980), Nonproliferation and United States Foreign Policy, 1980. Editor: Cruise Missiles, 1981, Conflict After the Cold War, 1994, second edition, 2001, Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence, 2003.
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Member foreign policy staff Mondale Presidential Campaign, Washington, 1984. Member Association for Retarded Citizens, Bergen County, New Jersey, since 1990. Member Council on Foreign Rels., International Institute for Strategic Studies, American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Society for Historians American Foreign Rels., Consortium for Study Intelligence, Council Foreign Rels.
(director national security studies since 1996).
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Married Adela Maria Bolet, July 25, 1987. Children: Elena, Michael, Diego.
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Recipient Sumner prize Harvard University, 1976, Article award National Intelligence Study Center, Washington, 1979, 81, Distinguished Scholar award International Studies Association, 2005.Recipient Sumner prize Harvard University, 1976, Article award National Intelligence Study Center, Washington, 1979, 81, Distinguished Scholar award International Studies Association, 2005.