Jervis, R. (1978). Cooperation under the security dilemma. World Politics 30(2): 167–214. doi:10.2307/2009958.

Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.

Why this is here

The exchange cited it at turn U16 for the security dilemma: measures each side takes for its own safety read to the other as threat, so mutual precaution escalates. The abstract matches.