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The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power by Viktoriya Fedorchak 9781032398433
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to assess the operational performance of both sides during the first year of the full-scale invasion.The Russian war in Ukraine began in... -
The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities by Shay Hershkovitz
RRP: $58.50$52.03National intelligence agencies have long adjusted to the opportunities and threats from new technologies. From spy planes and satellites to the internet, they have created structures, concepts, and practices to best apply these new capabilities. But... -
Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts by Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
RRP: $210.60$182.91As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua... -
National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism by Melvin A. Goodman 9780872865891
RRP: $29.23$25.37"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is... -
Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks by Barry R. Posen
RRP: $58.48$51.68In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for... -
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy by Kelly M. Greenhill 9780801448713
RRP: $101.40$88.73At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the... -
Cyberspace and National Security: Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World by Derek S. Reveron 9781589019188
RRP: $93.60$82.70In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and... -
The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War by Gareth Porter
RRP: $21.43$17.75Why did the CIA overthrow Iran's democratically elected government? And why has the United States treated Iran as one of its biggest enemies for four decades? Is the Trump administration's "Maximum Pressure" campaign working, or will it precipitate a war... -
Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War by Harold A. Winters 9780801866487
RRP: $51.68$46.20Throughout history, from Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the... -
American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era by Suzanne C. Nielsen
RRP: $68.25$61.70American Civil-Military Relations offers the first comprehensive assessment of the subject since the publication of Samuel P. Huntington's field-defining book, The Soldier and the State. Using this seminal work as a point of departure, experts in the... -
The World America Made by Robert Kagan
RRP: $29.23$17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802712Author Robert KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes by Michael E. O'Hanlon
RRP: $48.75$42.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815736899Author Michael E. O'HanlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election by Malcolm Nance 9781510723320 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$6.53From New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance, here is the shocking, ground-breaking book that first revealed the attempts by Putin's Russia to help Donald Trump becomes President of the United States.First published a month... -
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election by Malcolm Nance 9781510723320
RRP: $25.33$22.74From New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance, here is the shocking, ground-breaking book that first revealed the attempts by Putin's Russia to help Donald Trump becomes President of the United States.First published a month... -
Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan by Romain Malejacq
RRP: $72.15$63.22How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018,... -
Rivals in Arms: The Rise of UK-France Defence Relations in the Twenty-First Century by Alice Pannier
RRP: $58.48$40.05As the UK leaves the European Union and as the multilateral order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Among such relationships, the UK-France partnership has become particularly critical in the past... -
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel 9780674019928 [USED COPY]
RRP: $83.75$10.73The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus... -
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel 9780674019928
RRP: $83.75$52.59The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus... -
The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 by Vaughan Lowe 9780199583300
RRP: $128.70$91.55This 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... -
Belief, Bias and Intelligence: Improving Analytical Efforts for National Intelligence by Martha Whitesmith
RRP: $175.50$142.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466349Author Martha WhitesmithFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Organization for Weapons Development by Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley
RRP: $76.05$66.53In both the popular imagination and among lawmakers and national security experts, there exists the belief that with sufficient motivation and material resources, states or terrorist groups can produce bioweapons easily, cheaply, and successfully. In... -
The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989 by Mark L. Haas 9780801474071
RRP: $38.98$30.58How 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... -
Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment by Michael C. Desch 9780801866395
$51.85The end of the Cold War brought widespread optimism about the future of civil-military relations. But as Michael Desch argues in this thought-provoking challenge to Harold Lasswell's famous "garrison state" thesis, the truth is that civilian authorities... -
Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security by Matthew Dallek
RRP: $48.73$43.58As the bombs fell on Guernica, the Blitz terrorized Britons, and atrocities were reported from Nanking-even before Pearl Harbor--Americans watched and worried about attacks on their homeland. In 1941, US mayors urged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to... -
Drug Smuggler Nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920–1995 by Stephen Snelders
RRP: $48.75$34.94Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This book investigates the histories of smugglers and criminal entrepreneurs in the Netherlands who... -
How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques by Yannick Veilleux-Lepage 9781538149812
RRP: $58.50$52.03This book contextualizes the use of terror as part of wider movements of political contention, demonstrating that terroristic innovation occurs as part of wider historical processes rather than in a vacuum. Drawing on evolutionary theory, this study... -
Maritime Strategy and Global Order: Markets, Resources, Security by Daniel Moran 9781626160729
RRP: $57.53$51.69Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international... -
Defence Diplomacy: Strategic Engagement and Interstate Conflict Daniel H. Katz (Baker Institute, Rice University, USA) 9781032174235
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book analyzes examples of strategic engagement in order to identify the factors which contribute to the success or failure of defence diplomacy in preventing interstate conflict.For more than a century, nations have engaged in defence diplomacy to... -
Critical Security Methods: New frameworks for analysis by Claudia Aradau 9780415712958
RRP: $85.78$74.96Critical Security Methods offers a new approach to research methods in critical security studies. It argues that methods are not simply tools to bridge the gap between security theory and security practice. Rather, to practise methods critically means... -
The First Family Detail by Ronald Kessler 9780804139618 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139618Author Ronald KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The First Family Detail by Ronald Kessler
RRP: $27.28$18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139618Author Ronald KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research by Tarja Väyrynen 9780367685102
RRP: $87.73$77.38This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace.The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking... -
Pirate State: Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea by Peter Eichstaedt 9781613736661
RRP: $29.15$22.41In 2009, the United States was hit broadside by Somali pirates who attempted to capture the U.S. flag ship Maersk Alabama. Suddenly, the pirates were no longer a distant menace. They had thrust themselves onto the American stage. Are the... -
Proxy War in Yemen Bernd Kaussler (James Madison University, USA) 9781032201665
RRP: $89.68$78.25This book analyzes the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the conflict.The work examines the conflict in Yemen as a testing ground for expectations about the autonomy and control of proxies by external... -
International Security: Politics, Policy, Prospects by Michael E. Smith
$77.65This innovative new text focuses on the politics of international security: how and why issues are interpreted as threats to international security and how such threats are managed. After a brief introduction to the field and its major theories and... -
French Arms Exports: The Business of Sovereignty by Lucie Beraud-Sudreau
RRP: $44.83$39.31Ever since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958, France has believed its strategic independence to be predicated on self-sufficiency in modern weapons. In order to maintain the requisite defence-industrial base, in the context of limited... -
Innovation, Dual Use, and Security: Managing the Risks of Emerging Biological and Chemical Technologies by Jonathan B. Tucker 9780262516969
$64.43A framework for assessing the security risks of emerging dual-use technologies and devising tailored governance strategies is proposed and applied to contemporary case studies. Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and... -
Application of Big Data for National Security: A Practitioner's Guide to Emerging Technologies by Professor Babak Akhgar 9780128019672
RRP: $99.43$89.90Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide range of case studies and application scenarios. This... -
Managing Terrorism and Insurgency: Regeneration, Recruitment and Attrition by Cameron I. Crouch 9780415622271
RRP: $64.33$56.86This book examines how governments can weaken the regenerative capabilities of terrorist and insurgent groups.The exploration of this question takes the form of a two-tier examination of three insurgent actors whose capacity to regenerate weakened in the... -
Interceptors: The Untold Fight Against the Mexican Cartels by Matthew Thomas 9780578374260
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578374260Author Matthew ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint One Time NationPublisher One Time NationWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...