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After Victory
Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, New Edition
Häftad, 2019
298 kr
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The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power and how do they …
How Enemies Become Friends
The Sources of Stable Peace
Häftad, 2012
473 kr
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Is the world destined to suffer endless cycles of conflict and war? Can rival nations become partners and establish a lasting and stable peace? How Enemies Become Friends provides a bold and innovative account of how nations escape geopolitical competition and replace hostility with friendship. …
Who Adjusts?
Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy during the Interwar Years
Häftad, 1997
797 kr
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In this work Beth Simmons presents a fresh view of why governments decided to abide by or defect from the gold standard during the 1920s and 1930s. Previous studies of the spread of the Great Depression have emphasized "tit-for-tat" currency and tariff manipulation and a subsequent cycle of …
Under the Nuclear Shadow
China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security
Häftad, 2025
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
406 kr
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How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma of fighting limited wars, only China has given …
Knowing the Adversary
Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations
Häftad, 2014
385 kr
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States are more likely to engage in risky and destabilizing actions such as military buildups and preemptive strikes if they believe their adversaries pose a tangible threat. Yet despite the crucial importance of this issue, we don't know enough about how states and their leaders draw inferences …
Geopolitics of Shaming
When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires
Inbunden, 2023
900 kr
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A bold new perspective on the strategic logic of international human rights enforcementWhen a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral pressure and urging reform. Yet many of the most egregious violations appear to go unpunished. In …
Global Governance Under Fire
How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave
Av Allison Carnegie, Richard Clark
Häftad, 2026
290 kr
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How international organizations can combat populist opposition—and the implications for institutional resilience, legitimacy, and accountabilityPopulist leaders around the world increasingly reject international organizations, decrying them as constraints on state power and rallying followers …
Active Defense
China's Military Strategy since 1949
Häftad, 2020
272 kr
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What changes in China’s modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China’s military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel …
Seeking the Bomb
Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation
Av Vipin Narang
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
308 kr
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The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb …
World Safe for Commerce
American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China
Häftad, 2025
247 kr
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An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace. Yet today the United States finds itself confronting not just Russia in Europe but China in the …
States and Power in Africa
Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition
Häftad, 2014
317 kr
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Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African …
Sino-Soviet Split
Cold War in the Communist World
Häftad, 2008
792 kr
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A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Luthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one …
Human Rights for Pragmatists
Social Power in Modern Times
Av Jack Snyder
Häftad, 2024
221 kr
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An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists prioritize universal legal and moral norms, backed …
Does Conquest Pay?
The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies
Häftad, 1998
644 kr
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Can foreign invaders successfully exploit industrial economies? Since control over economic resources is a key source of power, the answer affects the likelihood of aggression and how strenuously states should counter it. The resurgence of nationalism has led many policymakers and scholars to doubt …
Korean War
An International History
Häftad, 1997
476 kr
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This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed …
Spectre of War
International Communism and the Origins of World War II
Inbunden, 2021
317 kr
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A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations …
Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
Häftad, 2009
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Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms …
Appeasing Bankers
Financial Caution on the Road to War
Häftad, 2007
436 kr
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In Appeasing Bankers, Jonathan Kirshner shows that bankers dread war--an aversion rooted in pragmatism, not idealism. "Sound money, not war" is hardly a pacifist rallying cry. The financial world values economic stability above all else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States that …
Changing Course
Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Häftad, 2014
654 kr
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Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that …
Unwritten Future
Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics
Inbunden, 2022
393 kr
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An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical realism’s …
Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange
World Political Economy in the 1930s and 1980s
Häftad, 1993
591 kr
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Did bilateral and regional bargaining choke off international commerce and finance in the 1930s and prolong the Great Depression? Is the open world economic system now being placed at risk by explicitly discriminatory practices that erode respect for the GATT, the IMF, and the IBRD? Most political …
Germany Divided
From the Wall to Reunification
Häftad, 1994
591 kr
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Germany Divided remains one of the most thought-provoking and comprehensive interpretations of the forty-year relationship between East and West Germany and of the problems of contemporary German unity. In this politically controversial and analytically sophisticated account, A. James McAdams …
Cultural Realism
Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History
Häftad, 1998
494 kr
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Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of …
Constructed Peace
The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963
Häftad, 1999
547 kr
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People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What …
Disarming Strangers
Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea
Häftad, 1999
574 kr
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In June 1994 the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea. With economic sanctions impending, President Bill Clinton approved the dispatch of substantial reinforcements to Korea, and plans were prepared for attacking the North's nuclear weapons complex. The turning point came in an …
From Wealth to Power
The Unusual Origins of America's World Role
Häftad, 1999
396 kr
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What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new power. In From Wealth to Power, Fareed Zakaria …
Cooperation among Democracies
The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy
Häftad, 1997
688 kr
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In exploring the special nature of alliances among democracies, Thomas Risse-Kappen argues that the West European and Canadian allies exerted greater influence on American foreign policy during the Cold War than most analysts assume. In so doing, he challenges traditional alliance theories that …
We All Lost the Cold War
Av Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein
Häftad, 1995
821 kr
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Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of …
Limits of Safety
Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
Häftad, 1995
531 kr
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Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that …
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
Av Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
Häftad, 1993
1408 kr
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When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by neglect, maladministration, and low morale. Soon after his arrival Marshall asked George F. Kennan to …
