Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Ph.D Candidate in International Relations at the Faculty of Law and Political Science , University of Tehran
2 Associate Professor, International Relations, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The emergence of the new wars and the problem of controlling them, has recently become the main concern of the international actors. Yet, the existing literature in the International Relations hasn’t response to this problem properly. The main purpose of this article is to develop an appropriate deterrence model in order to control the networked wars, which have been classified as 4th generation of warfare in the chaotic-complex international system. To answer the question ‘How networked wars can be managed’, this article has introduced intensive networked deterrence as an answer. Using the abduction reasoning, this paper chose the best explanation of the behavior of the complex international system as the complex adaptive system in the age of chaos. Considering the transformation of international order to bifurcated order, intensive networked deterrence is an instrument applied by the owner of intensive power at the regional or international system to build the threat equation. Intensive networked deterrence, as an innovative sample of the sixth wave of deterrence theory, has been modeled, and its aspects on the current situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the regional network of West Asia have been investigated
Keywords
- Chaotic- Complex International System
- Networked Wars
- Deterrence
- Intensive Power
- Intensive Networked Deterrence
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