Richard K. Betts - There is no sure solution to some dangers.

There is no sure solution to some dangers.

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Richard K. Betts, Professor and Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Columbia University “The Lost Logic of Deterrence: What the Strategy That Won the Cold War Can—and Can’t—Do Now”, Foreign Affairs, March / April 2013

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Born: August 15, 1947
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Richard Kevin Betts is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who centers on U.S. foreign policy. He is currently the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science, the director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and former director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies.

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