STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County. He has written extensively on national security in terms of deterrence theory, arms control, and strategic war termination. Recent works include First Strike Stability (Greenwood Press, 1990), Strategic Impasse (Greenwood, 1989), and Nuclear Endings (Praeger, 1989).SIDNEY R. WALDMAN is Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. Specializing in strategic policy, his earlier works include The Foundations of Political Action: An Exchange Theory of Politics (1972) and Congress and Democracy (1985).

• Preface Introduction: the Political Aspects of War Termination by Stephen J. Cimbala Deterrence after the Cold War by William C. Martel New Soviet Thinking on Conflict Initiation, Control and Termination by Raymond L. Garthoff Terminating an American-Soviet War by Sidney R. Waldman The Changing Role of Nuclear Weapons in Conflict Termination by Leon Sloss Conflict Termination and Intrawar Deterrence: Implications for U.S. and Soviet States by Stephen J. Cimbala Behavioral Factors in Terminating Superpower War by Paul K. Davis Institutional Factors in War Termination by Paul Bracken War Termination: The Maritime Component by James J. Tritten How Civil Wars End: Preliminary Results from a Comparative Project by Roy C. Licklider Nuclear Deterrence and Political Hostility by George H. Quester Conclusion by Stephen J. Cimbala and Sidney R. Waldman Selected Bibliography Index

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County. He has written extensively on national security in terms of deterrence theory, arms control, and strategic war termination. Recent works include First Strike Stability (Greenwood Press, 1990), Strategic Impasse (Greenwood, 1989), and Nuclear Endings (Praeger, 1989).SIDNEY R. WALDMAN is Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. Specializing in strategic policy, his earlier works include The Foundations of Political Action: An Exchange Theory of Politics (1972) and Congress and Democracy (1985).

• Preface Introduction: the Political Aspects of War Termination by Stephen J. Cimbala Deterrence after the Cold War by William C. Martel New Soviet Thinking on Conflict Initiation, Control and Termination by Raymond L. Garthoff Terminating an American-Soviet War by Sidney R. Waldman The Changing Role of Nuclear Weapons in Conflict Termination by Leon Sloss Conflict Termination and Intrawar Deterrence: Implications for U.S. and Soviet States by Stephen J. Cimbala Behavioral Factors in Terminating Superpower War by Paul K. Davis Institutional Factors in War Termination by Paul Bracken War Termination: The Maritime Component by James J. Tritten How Civil Wars End: Preliminary Results from a Comparative Project by Roy C. Licklider Nuclear Deterrence and Political Hostility by George H. Quester Conclusion by Stephen J. Cimbala and Sidney R. Waldman Selected Bibliography Index

STEPHEN J. CIMBALA is Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County. He has written extensively on national security in terms of deterrence theory, arms control, and strategic war termination. Recent works include First Strike Stability (Greenwood Press, 1990), Strategic Impasse (Greenwood, 1989), and Nuclear Endings (Praeger, 1989).SIDNEY R. WALDMAN is Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. Specializing in strategic policy, his earlier works include The Foundations of Political Action: An Exchange Theory of Politics (1972) and Congress and Democracy (1985).

• Preface Introduction: the Political Aspects of War Termination by Stephen J. Cimbala Deterrence after the Cold War by William C. Martel New Soviet Thinking on Conflict Initiation, Control and Termination by Raymond L. Garthoff Terminating an American-Soviet War by Sidney R. Waldman The Changing Role of Nuclear Weapons in Conflict Termination by Leon Sloss Conflict Termination and Intrawar Deterrence: Implications for U.S. and Soviet States by Stephen J. Cimbala Behavioral Factors in Terminating Superpower War by Paul K. Davis Institutional Factors in War Termination by Paul Bracken War Termination: The Maritime Component by James J. Tritten How Civil Wars End: Preliminary Results from a Comparative Project by Roy C. Licklider Nuclear Deterrence and Political Hostility by George H. Quester Conclusion by Stephen J. Cimbala and Sidney R. Waldman Selected Bibliography Index