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Treachery
Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling...
Military Strategy as Public Discourse
America's war in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book presents the current history of United States military strategy in Afghanistan as an example of dysfunctional policy discourse among the nation’s elites.
The legitimacy of a country’s military strategy can become a subject of intense public debate and doubt, especially in prolonged...
Transatlantic Relations and Modern Diplomacy
An interdisciplinary examination
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book explores the transatlantic relationship between the US and Europe from multiple perspectives and disciplines.
Since the end of the Cold War, a multi-polar world has replaced the dual power economic and political stranglehold previously shared by the US and Russia. Amid the shift in...
by Ars Technica
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Anonymous got lucky. When five of its hackers attacked security company HBGary Federal on February 6, 2011, they were doing so in order to defend the group’s privacy. It wasn’t because they hoped to reveal plans to attack WikiLeaks, create surveillance cells targeting pro-union organizations,...
International Conflict and Cyberspace Superiority
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book examines cyberspace superiority in nation-state conflict from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.
This volume analyses superiority concepts from the domains of land, maritime, and air to build a model that can be applied to cyberspace. Eight different cyberspace conflicts...
Learning to Forget
US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict...
Warlords
Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovereignty. Unlike the feudal lords of a previous era, warlords today are not state-builders. Instead they...
by Angel Rabasa, Matthew Waxman, Eric V. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Momentous events since September 11, 2001-Operation Enduring Freedom, the global war on terrorism, and the war in Iraq-have dramatically altered the political environment of the Muslim world. Many of the forces influencing this environment, however, are the products of trends that have been at work...
by Colin S. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics.
Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the relationship between the two concepts and their ancillary activities has scarcely been touched by scholars. This book corrects that serious...
The Use of Force
Military Power and International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
The Use of Force, long considered a classic in its own right, brings together enduring, influential works on the role of military power in foreign policy and international politics. Now in its eighth edition, the reader has been significantly revised; with twenty innovative and up-to-date selections,...
by Nataliya Gudz
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,7 (A-), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, course: Conflict and Mediation, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The post-Cold War change...
Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Post-War Societies
Sustaining the Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits, consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from violent conflict.
The rationale for this comes from the growing realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of 9/11, our understanding of conflict and...
Explaining Pakistan's Foreign Policy
Escaping India
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Pakistan has over the decades become a hotbed for the terrorist ideology often referred to as Jihadism. This book investigates the underlying principles of Pakistan’s foreign policy from 1947 until the present day, and explains the rise of Jihadism as an offshoot of Pakistan’s security concerns.
The...
NATO in Afghanistan
The Liberal Disconnect
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATO's role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and...