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11 produkter
Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena
Professors or Pundits?
Inbunden, 2016
767 kr
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Offers a timely and far-reaching reassessment of the role of public intellectuals in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. The contributors delineate the centrality of historical consciousness, philosophical self-understanding, and ethical imperatives for any intelligentsia who presume to …
Cult of the Irrelevant
The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security
Inbunden, 2019
389 kr
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How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again …
Cult of the Irrelevant
The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security
E-bok, 2019
357 kr
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How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again …
Cult of the Irrelevant
The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security
Häftad, 2021
262 kr
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How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again …
Power and Military Effectiveness
The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism
Inbunden, 2008
584 kr
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Since 1815 democratic states have emerged victorious from most wars, leading many scholars to conclude that democracies are better equipped to triumph in armed conflict with autocratic and other non-representative governments. Political scientist Michael C. Desch argues that the evidence and logic …
Privileged and Confidential
The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
Av Kenneth Michael Absher, Michael C Desch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
704 kr
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Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the U.S. intelligence …
Privileged and Confidential
The Secret History of the President''s Intelligence Advisory Board
Av Roman Popadiuk, Michael C. Desch m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
616 kr
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Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President''s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the U.S. …
Privileged and Confidential
The Secret History of the President''s Intelligence Advisory Board
Av Roman Popadiuk, Michael C. Desch m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
145 kr
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The history of one of the most secretive segments of America''s intelligence community.Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, DC, is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President''s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is …
Soldiers in Cities: Military Operations on Urban Terrain
Av Strategic Studies Institute, Michael C. Desch
Häftad, 2014
199 kr
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From Pirates to Drug Lords
The Post - Cold War Caribbean Security Environment
Av Michael C. Desch, Jorge I. Domínguez m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
386 kr
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Examines Caribbean countries' impact on the U. S. and the world and how they have consolidated their democracies, advanced prosperity, and maintained peace through collective security and international cooperation.U.S. Marines in Haiti. Pirates or drug traffickers penetrating the southern border of …
Civilian Control of the Military
The Changing Security Environment
Häftad, 2001
274 kr
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The end of the Cold War brought widespread optimism about the future of civil-military relations. But as Michael Desch argues in this thought-provoking challenge to Harold Lasswell's famous "garrison state" thesis, the truth is that civilian authorities have not been able to exert greater control …
