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  • Why NATO Endures

    by Wallace J. Thies ...
    Why NATO Endures examines military alliances and their role in international relations, developing two themes. The first is that the Atlantic Alliance, also known as NATO, has become something very different from virtually all pre-1939 alliances and many contemporary alliances. The members of early alliances frequently feared their allies as much if not more than their enemies, viewing them as ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Friendly Rivals

    Bargaining and Burden-shifting in NATO

    by Wallace J. Thies ...
    Viewing the behavior of NATO members through the prism of bargaining theory reveals them as states intent on obtaining the benefits of membership at the least cost to themselves. This book shows how NATO members use a variety of strategies and tactics to try to get the better of each other without wrecking an alliance that realizes their shared goals and from which they all benefit. The book ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Why Containment Works

    Power, Proliferation, and Preventive War

    by Wallace J. Thies ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Why Containment Works examines the conduct of American foreign policy during and after the Cold War through the lens of applied policy analysis. Wallace J. Thies argues that the Bush Doctrine after 2002 was a theory of victory—a coherent strategic view that tells a state how best to transform scarce resources into useful military assets, and how to employ those assets in conflicts. He contrasts ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

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  • By More Than Providence

    Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783

    by Michael Green ...
    Series series A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
    Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Economic Interdependence and War

    by Dale C. Copeland ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for vital raw materials and markets. Moving beyond the stale liberal-realist debate, Economic Interdependence and War lays out a dynamic theory of ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The United States and Western Europe Since 1945

    From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift

    by Geir Lundestad ...
    Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945. The relationship between the United States and Western Europe has always been crucial and recent events dictate that it is becoming ever more so. In this important new work, Geir Lundestad analyses the balance ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890–1945

    by Michael Mann ...
    Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • How NATO Adapts

    Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950

    by Seth A. Johnston ...
    Series Book 132 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Despite momentous change, NATO remains a crucial safeguard of security and peace.Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.” These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s end, 9/11, or recent twenty-first ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Myths of Empire

    Domestic Politics and International Ambition

    by Jack L. Snyder ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    "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 ReviewOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Concept and Controversy

    Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market

    by W. W. Rostow ...
    The noted economist and former National Security Advisor shares lessons learned from decades of national policymaking in this insightful memoir.A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues from ... Read more

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  • Powerplay

    The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia

    by Victor Cha ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A close look at the evolution of American political alliances in Asia and their futureWhile the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently under threat? ... Read more

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  • Northern Security and Global Politics

    Nordic-Baltic strategic influence in a post-unipolar world

    Edited by Ann-Sofie Dahl, Pauli Järvenpää ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book takes a comprehensive approach to security in the Nordic-Baltic region, studying how this region is affected by developments in the international system.The advent of the new millennium coincided with the return of the High North to the world stage. A number of factors have contributed to the increased international interest for the northern part of Europe: climate change resulting in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD