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Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-First Century

by Geoffrey Till
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds...
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The Limits of Alignment

Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975

by John D. Ciorciari
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010

The Limits of Alignment is an engaging and accessible study that explores how small states and middle powers of Southeast Asia ensure their security in a world where they are overshadowed by greater powers. John D. Ciorciari challenges a central concept in international relations theory—that states...
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Approaching the Nuclear Tipping Point

Cooperative Security in an Era of Global Change

by James E. Goodby
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017

Globalization and technology have created new challenges to national governments. As a result, they now must share power with other entities, such as regional and global organizations or large private economic units. In addition, citizens in most parts of the world have been empowered by the ability...
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America's Search for Security

The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism

by Sean Kay
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

This book details the ways in which America’s ascendancy to global superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism balanced with an equally constant realist restraint. In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys...
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Strategy in Asia

The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Some of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If America is to meet these...
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Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa

Exploring Regime Complexity

by Malte Brosig
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015

This book examines peacekeeping in Africa, exploring how the various actors are forming an African security regime complex. The changing dynamics of peacekeeping in today’s world have encouraged a more cooperative approach between international and regional actors. At the centre of this book...
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by Vaughan Lowe ; Adam Roberts ; Jennifer Welsh ; Dominik Zaum
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008

This is the first major exploration of the United Nations Security Council's part in addressing the problem of war, both civil and international, since 1945. Both during and after the Cold War the Council has acted in a limited and selective manner, and i
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Transnational Actors in War and Peace

Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

Transnational Actors in War and Peace provides a comparative examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact with states and each other. It explores the identities, organization, strategies and influence of transnational...
Cover of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific
by Kai He, Huiyun Feng
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its nuclear weapons program? Why did the United States prefer bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after World War II? Why did China become "nice"—no more military coercion—in dealing with the pro-independence Taiwan President...
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by James Meernik
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

The purpose of this text is to evaluate the extent to which international judicial institutions—principally the four most prominent tribunals, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the...
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European Security, Terrorism and Intelligence

Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage. In this collection, a series of experts discuss how the EU has shed its reputation as a weak international actor in light of its policies on police cooperation and intelligence-sharing as part of the global effort to combat terrorism
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by E. Brunner
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013

Differentiation from the Self has been a unifying feature of war stories since they were first told highlighting that war stories are about the production of identity. Based on analysis of military documents, this book aims to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between state identity and foreign security policy
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international policy-making....
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War, Peace and International Security

From Sarajevo to Crimea

by Jan Eichler
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016

This book examines and explains the dialectic of war and peace between the outbreak of WWI and the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. The theoretical inspiration is built upon Galtung’s concept of negative and positive peace, Aron´s distinction between strategy and diplomacy, and Carr´s theory...
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