Stanford University: 1318 books
South Asia's Weak States
Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
South Asia, which consists of eight states of different sizes and capabilities, is characterized by high levels of insecurity at the inter-state, intra-state, and human level: insecurity that is manifest in both traditional and non-traditional security problems—especially transnational terrorism...
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...
Deterring Terrorism
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
During the Cold War, deterrence theory was the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, however, popular wisdom dictated that terrorist organizations and radical fanatics could not be deterred—and governments shifted their attention to combating terrorism rather...
Forging the Sword
Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
The possibility of law in the absence of a nation would seem to strip law from its source of meaning and value. At the same time, law divorced from nations would clear the ground for a cosmopolitan vision in which the prejudices or idiosyncrasies of distinctive national traditions would give way to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war—a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Historically the term "war crime" struck some as redundant and others as oxymoronic: redundant because...
Culture in Conflict
Irregular Warfare, Culture Policy, and the Marine Corps
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
In response to the irregular warfare challenges facing the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, General James Mattis—then commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command—established a new Marine Corps cultural initiative. The goal was simple: teach Marines to interact successfully with the...
Better Left Unsaid
Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife—the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film—this book reveals the...
The Balance Gap
Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that seek to address the "balance" between work and family. Millions of women in the U.S. take some time off when they give birth or adopt a child, making use of "family-friendly" laws and policies in order to spend time...
Riding the Black Ram
Law, Literature, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to demonstrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's...
Strategy in Asia
The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security
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...