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Bruce Russett’s work has made an impact on the study of international relations. The broad scope of this work, as well as points developed in the biographical material of the Preface, begin to underscore why his contributions to the study of international relations cannot be easily characterized or pigeonholed.
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In a 2008 panel honoring the career of Bruce Russett (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago), Bruce Bueno de Mesquita commented on this article and how it reflected Russett’s strengths as a scholar: “Way back in 1963 Bruce wrote ‘The Calculus of Deterrence.’ Here was as far as I know the first serious, quantified attempt to figure out when deterrent threats were credible—Bruce used that exact vocabulary back then—and when they were, in modern parlance, cheap talk. He did expected utility calculations and produced some neat results. While many saw the ideas behind Schelling’s earlier work and wanted to argue with it, Bruce saw not only abstract ideas, but a practical way forward to turn ideas into measurement and measurement perhaps into tools that would lead to better decisions”.
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Note that it was not only the European context, but all of these figures were Jewish (by blood if not practice), as was Haas’ functionalist predecessor David Mitrany, who left Romania for Britain in 1908 and later became a British citizen.
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Students of Deutsch’s social communications model of integration will recognize that Russett’s focus on increased and positive transactions is fundamental to the Kantian peace.
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Starr, H. (2015). A Scholarly Biography. In: Starr, H. (eds) Bruce M. Russett: Pioneer in the Scientific and Normative Study of War, Peace, and Policy. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13850-3_1
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