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  • Mixed Blessings

    International Relationships of Assistance and Conflict

    by Kyle Beardsley ...
    Who your friends are shapes who your enemies are and vice versa. Starting with this premise, Mixed Blessings takes up two related research questions: how does a state's relational web of security assistance (amity) influence its relationships of threat (enmity), and how does a state's relational web of enmity influence its relationships of amity? Drawing on theories of alliance politics and ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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  • Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics

    A Mixed Methods Approach

    by Steven E. Lobell, Patrick James, Scott A. Silverstone, Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley, Edward Gonzalez, Norrin M. Ripsman ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation.These time-sensitive disputes between states, and even with violent non-state actors, do not involve significant risk of military escalation, at least in the moment. Investigating how and why some near crises escalate, while others do not, requires an explanation of the different dynamics of international disputes and the policy ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Mediation Dilemma

    by Kyle Beardsley ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Mediation has become a common technique for terminating violent conflicts both within and between states; while mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without its own problems. In The Mediation Dilemma, Kyle Beardsley highlights its long-term limitations. The result of this oft-superficial approach to peacemaking, immediate and reassuring as it may be, is often a fragile ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Counterinsurgency

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    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Truth, Errors, and Lies

    Politics and Economics in a Volatile World

    by Grzegorz W. Kolodko ...
    An approach to the challenges of globalism that rejects simplistic solutions, from "one of the most acute observers of the international economy" (Francis Fukuyama, New York Times-bestselling author of Identity).Deploying a novel mix of scientific evaluation and personal observation, Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy, begins Truth, ... Read more

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  • Zero-Sum Victory

    What We're Getting Wrong About War

    by Christopher D. Kolenda ...
    2021 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner for War & HistoryWhy have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States' favor, significant capacity-building efforts, and repeated tactical victories by what many observers call the world's best military, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable. The US government's fixation on ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Restraint

    A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

    by Barry R. Posen ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint**, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics.** Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • When States Fail

    Causes and Consequences

    Edited by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing. It defines and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Situation Room

    The Theory and Practice of Crisis Decision-Making

    Edited by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Keren Yarhi-Milo ...
    Combining decades of diplomacy and world-renowned scholarship, Inside the Situation Room bridges the gap between politics and academia to illuminate how world leaders make decisions in times of crisis. For decades, people have sought to understand how and why decisions are made in times of crisis, but very few get the opportunity to witness leaders' decision-making process. The result has been a ... Read more

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  • Foreign Affairs Strategy

    Logic for American Statecraft

    by Terry L. Deibel ...
    This is a book on how to think - strategically - about foreign policy. Focusing on American foreign policy, this book discusses the national interest as a concept in strategic logic and describes how to select objectives that will take advantage of opportunities to promote interests, while protecting them against threats. It also discusses national power and influence, as well as the political, ... Read more

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  • Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

    by Alex Mintz, Karl DeRouen Jr ...
    Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases and examples, which are written in an accessible style, include decisions made by leaders of the ... Read more

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