国際危機における軍事と政治

国際紛争の研究

抄録

This paper is part of the results of theoretical and historical studies on crisis strategy. Most scholars have devoted much more attention to the escalation of crises and the strategy for war as the result of such escalation rather than to the de-escalation of crises and to crisis strategy. These scholars have tended to neglect the question of how crises are de-esclated or terminated.
In these days, however, any great power must accomplish its political objectives-terminating its its crises is one of these objectives-without resorting to war which is likely to bring about too much material and non-material damage on it.
It can be said, therefore, that crisis strategy is more important than war strategy from the view point of total strategy and peace-keeping. This writer has studied crisis strategy under the above-stated terms.
The first part of this paper deals with the premise of the study on crisis strategy, the essence of crises and the influence of stress on the decision making process in crises. The second part of the paper treats of the objectives of crisis strategy and the three, mutually related principles in crisis strategy: freedom of choice, empathy to the opponent, and control by politics.