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Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century
Theory, History, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The U.S. today faces the most complex and challenging security environment in recent memory— even as it deals with growing constraints on its ability to respond to threats. Its most consequential challenge is the rise of China, which increasingly has the capability to deny the U.S. access to areas...
American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear
Threat Inflation since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This edited volume addresses the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. The Bush administration's aggressive campaign to build public support for an invasion of Iraq reheated fears about the president's ability to manipulate the public, and many charged the administration...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The first part of this book is primarily devoted to analysing the impact of the system of international relations on the fortunes of small states. The second part discusses the question 'what changes in the national strategy of small states are necessary in view of the new international system?' The...
The United Kingdom’s Defence After Brexit
Britain’s Alliances, Coalitions, and Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
This new work examines how the European states, the United Kingdom and the United States will approach the defence and Security of Europe in the medium and long-term. It is often assumed that Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from the political and commercial European Union, would affect defence...
Nuclear Multilateralism and Iran
Inside EU Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Drawing on the author’s personal experience, this book presents an insider’s chronology and policy analysis of the EU’s role in the nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The European Union strives to be a global player, a “soft power” leader that can influence international politics and...
Proxy Warriors
The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security—the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords. Tracing the history of several "high profile" paramilitary organizations, including Indonesia's...
Terrorist Rehabilitation
A New Frontier in Counter-terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
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With the rise of religiously motivated violence and terrorism, governments around the world need to develop their religious and ideological capabilities in parallel with strengthening their law enforcement, military and intelligence capabilities. Terrorist Rehabilitation: A New...
by Jon B. Alterman, Kathleen H. Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This study examines the potential for a “federated defense” approach to U.S. action in the Middle East, the constraints to closer military cooperation in the region, and specific capability areas that would benefit from federated defense. Stabilizing the Middle East requires continued attention...
by Lucas Kello
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes...
Global Responses to Maritime Violence
Cooperation and Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Global Responses to Maritime Violence is a full discussion of maritime security short of war that goes beyond the current literature in both scope and perspective. The chapters in this volume examine terrorism, piracy, armed robbery at sea, illegal maritime trafficking, illegal fishing, and other...
Rethinking the Unthinkable
New Directions for Nuclear Arms Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Rethinking the Unthinkable examines the future direction of nuclear arms control in the post-Cold War security environment. Believing that the new environment requires a radical rethinking of the purpose and role of nuclear weapons in international politics, the contributors address many fundamental...
Korea in the New Asia
East Asian Integration and the China Factor
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Since the late 1970s a number of regional developments have impacted upon South Korea’s political and economic standing in Asia. China’s spectacular growth and closer integration with its neighbouring economies, along with a tendency toward more assertive political and diplomatic activity, have...
Water
Asia's New Battleground
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book AwardThe battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia.Water stress is set to become Asia’s defining crisis...
by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions...