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Covert Regime Change
America's Secret Cold War
Häftad, 2021
360 kr
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O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.― Political Science Quarterly States seldom resort to war to overthrow their …
Bombing to Win
Air Power and Coercion in War
Häftad, 1996
360 kr
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"Bombing to Win is a critically important book." Navel War College ReviewFrom Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasing: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer.Analyzing the results of over thirty air …
Weapons of Mass Migration
Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Inbunden, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
755 kr
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IR theorists, foreign policy analysts and migration, security studies, and human rights scholars will all find this book a valuable addition to their scholarship.â• Political Studies ReviewAt first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North …
Weapons of Mass Migration
Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Häftad, 2016
391 kr
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IR theorists, foreign policy analysts and migration, security studies, and human rights scholars will all find this book a valuable addition to their scholarship.â• Political Studies ReviewAt first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North …
Fragile Balance of Terror
Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
Av Vipin Narang, Scott D. Sagan
Häftad, 2023
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
303 kr
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In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions …
Winning the Next War
Innovation and the Modern Military
Häftad, 1994
402 kr
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How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the …
Nuclear Reactions
How Nuclear-Armed States Behave
Av Mark S. Bell
Häftad, 2021
313 kr
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Nuclear Reactions analyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries. Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than …
Dictator's Army
Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes
Häftad, 2015
458 kr
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In The Dictator's Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well—and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses on four key sets of military organizational …
Undermining the Kremlin
America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956
Inbunden, 2000
985 kr
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Following the Allied victory in World War II, the United States turned its efforts to preventing the spread of Communism beyond Eastern Europe. Gregory Mitrovich argues, however, that the policy of containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power. Drawing on …
Conventional Deterrence
Häftad, 1985
388 kr
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Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. He …
Liddell Hart and the Weight of History
Häftad, 2010
460 kr
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For almost half a century, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895–1970) was the most highly regarded writer on strategy and military matters in the English-speaking world and even today, his ideas are still discussed and debated. Although he helped to formulate Great Britain's military doctrine after …
War and the Engineers
The Primacy of Politics Over Technology
Häftad, 2008
303 kr
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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 defenders. Offense-defense theory is perhaps best known …
Conventional Deterrence
Inbunden, 1983
699 kr
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Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. He …
Sources of Military Doctrine
France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars
Inbunden, 1984
713 kr
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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. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive, …
Ideology of the Offensive
Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914
Inbunden, 1984
734 kr
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Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military …
Ultimate Enemy
British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1933–1939
Inbunden, 1985
693 kr
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How realistically did the British government assess the threat from Nazi Germany during the 1930s? How accurate was British intelligence's understanding of Hitler's aims and Germany's military and industrial capabilities? In The Ultimate Enemy, Wesley K. Wark catalogues the many misperceptions …
Japan Prepares for Total War
The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941
Inbunden, 1987
734 kr
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The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security, drawing on a wide …
Origins of Alliances
Inbunden, 1987
673 kr
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"The Origins of Alliances offers a different way of thinking about our security and thus about our diplomacy. It ought to be read by anyone with a serious interest in understanding why our foreign policy is so often self-defeating."―New RepublicHow are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt …
Liddell Hart and the Weight of History
Inbunden, 1988
713 kr
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For almost half a century, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895–1970) was the most highly regarded writer on strategy and military matters in the English-speaking world and even today, his ideas are still discussed and debated. Although he helped to formulate Great Britain's military doctrine after …
Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution
Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon
Inbunden, 1989
713 kr
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A comprehensive analysis that thrusts Jervis into the front ranks of nuclear essayists.―Kirkus ReviewsRobert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has …
Substitute for Victory
The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks
Inbunden, 1990
1200 kr
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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 …
Military Organizations, Complex Machines
Modernization in the U.S. Armed Services
Inbunden, 1991
1221 kr
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Chris Demchak explores the reasons why military machines surprise their users and how they can change both the complexity and effectiveness of tactical organizations. She uses the Army's experiences with its M1 Abrams tank, as well as other examples, to explain the interaction of complex technology …
Tet Offensive
Intelligence Failure in War
Inbunden, 1991
693 kr
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In this account of one of the worst intelligence failures in Americanhistory, James J. Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. Wirtz reconstructs the turning point of the Vietnam War in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon Vietcong and recently …
Myths of Empire
Domestic Politics and International Ambition
Inbunden, 1991
734 kr
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"Myths of Empire offers the best-developed theory to date of the domestic sources of international conflict and security policy.... Snyder has taken a major step toward ending the theoretical impoverishment of the study of the domestic sources of international conflict."― American Political Science …
Winning the Next War
Innovation and the Modern Military
Inbunden, 1991
741 kr
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How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the …
Inadvertent Escalation
Conventional War and Nuclear Risks
Inbunden, 1992
741 kr
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Posen has written a provocative and important book... which explores an issue that could increase in relevance as nuclear weapons proliferate throughout the Third World. â• Intelligence and National SecurityIn this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional …
Cooperation Under Fire
Anglo-German Restraint During World War II
Inbunden, 1995
734 kr
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Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered …
Reputation and International Politics
Inbunden, 1996
713 kr
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By approaching an important foreign policy issue from a new angle, Jonathan Mercer comes to a startling, controversial discovery: a nation's reputation is not worth fighting for. He presents the most comprehensive examination to date of what defines a reputation, when it is likely to emerge in …
Nixon Administration and the Making of U.S. Nuclear Strategy
Inbunden, 1995
1185 kr
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In 1974 Richard Nixon's defense secretary, James Schlesinger, announced that the United States would change its nuclear targeting policy from "assured destruction" to "limited nuclear options." In this account of the Schlesinger Doctrine based on newly declassified documents and extensive …
