Information Deterrence: Transformation of the Strategic Stability Paradigm

... (MAD) doctrine As both countries possessed the capability to inflict unacceptable damage in a nuclear war, this mutual Soviet-American nuclear deterrence became the basis for strategic stability throughout this bi-polar world. Strategic Stability in a Polycentric World Today, the Cold War definition of strategic stability is inevitably, no longer relevant – for two main reasons. First, from the point of view of international relations, the world is becoming increasingly polycentric. U.S.-Russian relations are no longer the only axis of global events. The system of international relations today shows the emergence and growing influence of several centres of power, and the state is no longer the only category of actor. Secondly, with today’s ...