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  • av Benjamin S. Lambeth
    492,-

    Since the unprecedentedly effective performance of the allied air campaign against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, the role of American air power in future wars has become a topic of often heated public debate. In this balanced appraisal of air...

  • - The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939
    av Mary R. Habeck
    420,-

    In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed in Germany and the Soviet Union between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle.

  • - Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
    av Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
    729,-

    Great powers often initiate risky military and diplomatic inventions in far-off, peripheral regions that pose no direct threat to them, risking direct confrontation with rivals in strategically inconsequential places. Why do powerful countries behave...

  • - Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
    av Kelly M. Greenhill
    430 - 695,-

    Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of forced migration as an important but largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. She shows both how often this unorthodox brand of coercion has been attempted and how successful it has been.

  • - Power and the Roots of Conflict
    av Stephen Van Evera
    398 - 743,-

    What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate war.

  • - Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
    av Richard J. Samuels
    386 - 789,-

    The definitive assessment of Japanese security policy and its implications for the future of East Asia.

  • - The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation
    av Alexander Lanoszka
    623,-

    Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of...

  • - Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
    av Jeffrey W. Legro
    497,-

    Legro offers a new understanding of the dynamics of World War II and the sources of international cooperation.

  • - Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation
    av Lynn Eden
    323 - 1 004,-

    Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war? U.S...

  • - Air Power and Coercion in War
    av Robert A. Pape
    394 - 1 692,-

    In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.

  • - U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941
    av Thomas G. Mahnken
    345 - 888,-

    Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany, and Great Britain in the period between the two world wars.

  • - Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940
    av Reynolds M. Salerno
    810,-

    Most international historians present the outbreak of World War II as the result of an irreconcilable conflict between Great Britain and Germany. This ubiquitous Anglo-German perspective fails to recognize complex causes and repercussions of...

  • - America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956
    av Gregory Mitrovich
    317 - 872,-

    Mitrovich argues that the Cold War policy of containment was only the first step in America's clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power, revealing a range of previously unknown covert actions launched during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.

  • - The Primacy of Politics over Technology
    av Keir A. Lieber
    349 - 824,-

    Do some technologies provoke war? Do others promote peace? Offense-defense theory contends that technological change is an important cause of conflict: leaders will be tempted to launch wars when they believe innovation favors attackers over...

  • av Mark L. Haas
    277 - 810,-

    How do leaders perceive threat levels in world politics, and what effects do those perceptions have on policy choices? Mark L. Haas focuses on how ideology shapes perception. He does not delineate the content of particular ideologies, but rather the...

  • - American Politics and International Security
    av John M. & IV Owen
    474 - 789,-

    Liberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen IV attributes this peculiar restraint to a synergy between liberal ideology and the institutions that...

  • - German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War
    av Celeste A. Wallander
    606 - 1 706,-

    Several hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when that state was reunited with its western counterpart. The peaceful transfer of these soldiers to their homeland produced a welcome outcome to a potentially explosive...

  • - America and the German Problem, 1943-1954
    av James McAllister
    1 064,-

    This new account of early Cold War history focuses on the emergence of a bipolar structure of power, the continuing importance of the German question, and American efforts to create a united Western Europe.

  • av Dale C. Copeland
    270 - 1 128,-

    Copeland asks why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify conflicts, drawing on detailed historical narratives of several twentieth-century cases, including World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.

  • - Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force
    av Martha Finnemore
    402 - 669,-

    Finnemore examines changes over the past 400 years about why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened.

  • - Power Politics and the Making of the European Community
    av Sebastian Rosato
    379 - 675,-

    A balance-of-power perspective on the formation, development, and future of the EC/EU.

  • - Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
    av Benjamin A. Valentino
    381 - 663,-

    Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass...

  • - France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars
    av Barry R. Posen
    447 - 789,-

    Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security.

  • - The Future of the Balance of Power
     
    418,-

    American power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No other nation has enjoyed such formidable advantages in military, economic, technological, cultural, and political capabilities. How stable is this unipolar American...

  • - Domestic Politics and International Ambition
    av Jack Snyder
    399 - 750,-

    Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.

  • - The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks
    av Rosemary Foot
    1 262,-

    After more than two years of bitter negotiations during which combatants & civilians continued to suffer casualties, the Korean armistice was concluded in July 1953. Focusing on the Americans formulation of negotiating positions & on their attempts to coordinate political goals with military tactics, Rosemary Foot here charts the tortuous path...

  • - Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace
    av Timothy W. Crawford
    972,-

    As the preponderant world power, the United States is a potential arbiter of war and peace between such feuding rivals as India and Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, China and Taiwan. How can it deter them from going to war and impel them to accept...

  • - How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
     
    1 706,-

    The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, and James J. Wirtz compare how military threats, strategic cultures, and...

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    333,-

    High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders-trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan outline cognitive and organizational biases that lead organizations to downplay the insider...

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    1 434,-

    High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders-trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan outline cognitive and organizational biases that lead organizations to downplay the insider...

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