Security

Why and how America's defense strategy must change in light of China's power and ambition-A Wall Street Journal best book of 2021 "This is a realist's book, laser-focused on China's bid for mastery in Asia as the 21st century's most important...

A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-Pacific Competition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more strongly...

The goal of Reasoning for Intelligence Analysts is to address the three distinct dimensions of an analyst's thinking: the person of the analyst (their traits), the processes they use (their techniques), and the problems they face (their targets). Based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777145Author Stijn MitzerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805410164Author Stephen KavanaghFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Publishing Push LTDPublisher Publishing Push LTDWeight(grams) 245g

Russia has deployed cyber operations to interfere in foreign elections, launch disinformation campaigns, and cripple neighboring states-all while maintaining a thin veneer of deniability and avoiding strikes that cross the line into acts of war. How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815727125Author Hal BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

The law of armed conflict is a key element of the global legal order yet it finds itself in a state of flux created by the changing nature of warfare and the influences of other branches of international law. The Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed...

Geo-economic strategy - deploying economic instruments to secure foreign-policy aims and to project power - has long been a key element of statecraft. In recent years, it has acquired even greater salience given China's growing antagonism with the United...

Taking Territory is an eye-opening account of why territorial conquest remains a phenomenon today.The end of World War II seemingly brought about a decline of territorial conquest. Many have argued that a strong territorial integrity norm in the postwar...

This book explores how contemporary societies respond to intensifying uncertainty, shifting power dynamics, and global transformations. In a world marked by war, technological acceleration, climate instability, and social fragmentation, the need to...

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The American military's All-Volunteer Force (AVF) recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. At the time of the post-Vietnam War move to end American military conscription, it was unclear whether a force comprised solely of volunteers could effectively...

A conceptual framework for understanding the critical role of naval operations in deterrence strategiesA future clash between the United States and China would occur across the seas, islands, and peninsulas of the Indo-Pacific region. Thus, mastering...

Informed by senior policymakers with extensive expertise in defense policy, this book provides a comprehensive regional and functional perspective on US policy toward the People's Republic of China.Confronting China addresses the central security...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Published as part of the Creating Safer Space Network that seeks to strengthen civilian capacities for nonviolent protection in conflict-affected areas. This book offers a compelling look at how...

This book explores the idea of grand strategy and offers a full-blown critique-both theoretical and empirical-of the gaps and inconsistencies that weaken modern realist theory. Grand strategy, the authors maintain, is determined as much by domestic...

Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so, and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval...

In Retrench, Defend, Compete, Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking strategy for securing vital US interests in the face of China's rise. Many believe China's ascent will drive it to war with the United States. Yet this is far from inevitable;...

In Retrench, Defend, Compete, Charles L. Glaser advances a thought-provoking strategy for securing vital US interests in the face of China's rise. Many believe China's ascent will drive it to war with the United States. Yet this is far from inevitable;...

Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse is not just a wake-up call: it's a survival blueprint to make it through what lies ahead.We have entered "The Age of Collapse," an era where mankind will suffer severe disasters because of new technologies,...

An original conceptual approach to the study of war, attempting to capture the entire phenomenon of military adaptation-whether strategic, institutional or in the field. The unravelling of the post-Cold War order has intensified geopolitical tensions,...

Angesichts der sich verandernden Weltordnung nehmen Schwellenlander zunehmend Einfluss auf die gegenwartige Dynamik regionaler Sicherheiten. Die Autorin beschreibt, wie sich die sicherheitspolitische Rolle Indiens im indo-pazifischen Raum in den letzten...

Around the world, numerous communities seek the protections of sovereignty--a "dream state" of their own--to preserve their traditional way of life. However, these secessionist movements create risk of prolonged conflict in countries of every size and...

How do leaders perceive threat levels in world politics, and what effects do those perceptions have on policy choices? Mark L. Haas focuses on how ideology shapes perception. He does not delineate the content of particular ideologies, but rather the...

Climate change adaptation has become the new mantra worldwide as the set of strategies, practices, and measures for coping with climate change and building resilient societies. Accompanying its rise on the international agenda, especially since the Paris...

This book provides a critical assessment of the broadly held view that states 'own' war. The central theme of the book is that the persistence of non-state actors in historical as well as contemporary conflicts challenges this narrative. It takes a...

Richard Ned Lebow spells out the implications of historical experience for American perceptions of the place of crisis management in superpower strategic relations. identifying and discussing three reasons for the outbreak of World War I-preemption, loss...

Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars' work in...

In The Remote Revolution, Erik Lin-Greenberg shows that drones are rewriting the rules of international security-but not in ways one would expect. Emerging technologies like drones are often believed to increase the likelihood of crises and war. By...

The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US policy makers focused less on how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and more on security and sovereignty.Security experts tend to view the...

At the heart of cybersecurity is a paradox: Cooperation enables conflict. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows how widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. The dark arts have long been part of global politics, but digital...

At the heart of cybersecurity is a paradox: Cooperation enables conflict. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows how widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. The dark arts have long been part of global politics, but digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765198339Author Joseph S. BermudezFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Why AI will not replace human strategic judgement in warIs AI about to automate war? Will autonomous drone swarms and killer robots controlled by AI dominate the battlespace and determine the winner? In AI, Automation, and War, Anthony King debunks this...

First published in 1987, Politics, Security and Development in Small States analyses the crisis facing small states in the international political system at the time. Incorporating general theoretical statements, case-studies, academic reflection, and...

This edited collection offers new engagement with important case studies and contexts that have been neglected in the field of vernacular security research. With cutting edge scholarship from fieldwork and primary research in Georgia, Tunisia,...

How do non-state armed groups change when states look the other way? States rarely engage in total war with militants, even during long-running conflicts. In Ordinary Rebels, Kolby Hanson argues that these periods of state toleration do not simply change...

Insurgent movements around the world vary widely in their military efficacy, from little-known and short-lived organizations to the Taliban, which completed its takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. What accounts for this variation in insurgent military power...

"Myths of Empire offers the best-developed theory to date of the domestic sources of international conflict and security policy.... Snyder has taken a major step toward ending the theoretical impoverishment of the study of the domestic sources of...