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Global Politics and Violent Non-state Actors by Natasha Ezrow 9781473960497
RRP: $51.59$42.27Moving beyond terror groups to examine non-state actors including warlords, gangs and private security companies, Violent Non-State Actors: Guides you through the core theories and concepts, taking a multidisciplinary approachExamines different... -
Innovating in a Secret World: The Future of National Security and Global Leadership by Tina P. Srivastava 9781640120860
RRP: $37.40$28.82Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most sophisticated and advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between two worlds. One is the dynamic,... -
Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo by Peter Andreas 9780801443558
RRP: $28.37$23.45The 1992-1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an... -
Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment by Paul K. MacDonald
RRP: $28.37$24.76In Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choose to behave, identifying the strong incentives to moderate their behavior when the hierarchy of great... -
China's Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World Order by Dawn C. Murphy 9781503638150
RRP: $36.11$31.14As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the Middle East and Africa, regions of major political, economic, and military importance for both China and... -
When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order by Stacie E. Goddard
RRP: $55.47$48.38Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers but contain and confront others, even at the risk of war? When Right Makes Might proposes that the ways in which a rising power legitimizes its expansionist aims significantly shapes great... -
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia by Robert S. Ross 9781501709197
RRP: $37.40$32.20Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power... -
Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State, and War by Reuben Steff 9780367636845
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis.While recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics... -
Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War by C. Christine Fair 9780199892709
RRP: $61.91$46.49Pakistan's army has dominated the state for most of its 66 years. It has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India to revise the maps in Kashmir and to resist India's slow but inevitable rise. To prosecute these dangerous policies, the army... -
Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age by Francis J. Gavin
RRP: $27.08$23.70We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our... -
The FBI Story: Leadership, Integrity, Agility, Integration by U.S. Department of Justice 9781510750524
RRP: $14.18$12.20From the US Department of Justice, the true stories of the world's top national security agency-the FBI-revealed for the first time! There has been much turmoil at the Federal Bureau of Investigation as of late, including the firing of James Comey, the... -
The Gender and Security Agenda: Strategies for the 21st Century by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of national and international security challenges.The volume examines gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and human security sub-fields: armed conflict, post-conflict,... -
What Do We Know about Civil Wars? by T. David Mason
RRP: $49.02$45.43Since World War II, civil wars have replaced interstate wars as the most frequent and deadly form of armed conflict globally. How do we account for when and where civil wars are likely to occur, when and how they are likely to end, and whether or not... -
Defense Planning and Readiness of North Korea: Armed to Rule by Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi
RRP: $49.01$43.06How has North Korea developed and managed its military readiness to achieve its strategic ends?Hinata-Yamaguchi analyzes North Korea's defense planning by looking at how political, economic, and societal factors affect the Korean People's Army's (KPA)... -
Digital Diplomacy and International Organisations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation by Corneliu Bjola
RRP: $47.72$41.96This book examines how international organisations (IOs) have struggled to adapt to the digital age, and with social media in particular. The global spread of new digital communication technologies has profoundly transformed the way organisations operate... -
Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons by Herbert Lin
RRP: $27.08$23.70The technology controlling United States nuclear weapons predates the Internet. Updating the technology for the digital era is necessary, but it comes with the risk that anything digital can be hacked. Moreover, using new systems for both nuclear and... -
Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear-Armed States Behave by Mark S. Bell
RRP: $23.21$20.51Nuclear Reactions analyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries. Mark S. Bell argues that... -
Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operation Forces by Susan L. Marquis 9780815754756
$36.78For four decades after World War II, U.S. Special Operations Forces including Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Air Force special operations aircrews and Special Tactics Group suffered from mistrust and inadequate funding from the military services. They... -
American Defense Reform: Lessons from Failure and Success in Navy History by Dave Oliver
RRP: $36.12$31.66A roadmap for US military innovation based on the Navy's history of success through civilian-military collaborations The US military must continually adapt to evolving technologies, shifting adversaries, and a changing social environment for its... -
Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars by Jessica Trisko Darden 9781626166660
RRP: $17.42$13.36Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when... -
Ungoverned Spaces: Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty by Anne L. Clunan
RRP: $30.95$26.88"Ungoverned spaces" are often cited as key threats to national and international security and are increasingly targeted by the international community for external interventions-both armed and otherwise. This book examines exactly when and how these... -
Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security by Henry Farrell 9780691216904
RRP: $24.50$19.50How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the futureWe live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders,... -
Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021: Key Developments and Trends The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), UK) 9781032122755
RRP: $122.54$106.23The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2021 provides insight into key regional strategic, geopolitical, economic, military and security topics. Among the topics explored are: US China decoupling and its regional security implications; Japan's... -
Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence by Joshua Rovner
RRP: $30.95$26.88What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-policy relations work best? How do intelligence-policy failures influence threat assessment, military... -
Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications: A Primer on US Systems and Future Challenges by James J. Wirtz
RRP: $41.28$36.97A unique overview of the United States' current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital age Concerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but... -
Navies and Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals) Ken Booth 9781138781764
RRP: $51.59$45.23First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and... -
The Image of the Enemy: Intelligence Analysis of Adversaries since 1945 by Paul Maddrell 9781626162396
$37.89Intelligence agencies spend huge sums of money to collect and analyze vast quantities of national security data for their political leaders. How well is this intelligence analyzed, how often is it acted on by policymakers, and does it have a positive or... -
Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives by Andreas Krieg 9781647123352
RRP: $108.36$96.20A penetrating analysis of weaponized information-one of the most pressing dangers to open societies Now more than ever, communities across the world are integrated into a complex, global information ecosystem that shapes the nature of social,... -
The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape: The Day that Changed Everything? by Bob Graham 9780230608382
RRP: $58.04$58.01The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape is the third volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to... -
Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis: A Study in Conflict Propaganda Oliver Boyd-Barrett 9781138579897
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis.It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise... -
Survivability: Confronting the Unmitigated Risks & Unprecedented Threats of Today’s Geo-Poli-Cyber™ Warfare to Survive and Competitively Thrive into the 21st Century by Khaled Fattal 9781636982267
RRP: $50.25$33.85Today, safeguarding nation-states, organizations, and citizens has less to do with security (cyber and non-cyber) but has everything to do with Survivability.We are now in the 'Era of the Unprecedented': since 2010, Geo-Poli-Cyber™ warfare has been... -
Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2020: Key Developments and Trends by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: $122.54$106.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860792208Author The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)Format PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint International Institute for Strategic... -
Arms Control for the Third Nuclear Age: Between Disarmament and Armageddon by David A. Cooper
RRP: $38.06$34.20A reappraisal of classic arms control theory that advocates for reprioritizing deterrence over disarmament in a new era of nuclear multipolarity The United States faces a new era of nuclear arms racing for which it is conceptually unprepared. Great... -
Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats by Jeffrey Price 9780128042939
RRP: $101.90$92.84Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Third Edition is a complete guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped... -
Human Security: Theory and Action by David Andersen-Rodgers
RRP: $41.28$36.62Human security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of security. It examines the conceptual roots of human... -
Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? Jane Cramer 9780415782135
RRP: $49.01$43.06This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics.In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of... -
Human Security: Theory and Action by David Andersen-Rodgers 9781538159934
RRP: $47.73$42.13Human security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of security. It examines the conceptual roots of human... -
Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry by Lyle J. Goldstein 9781626166349
RRP: $36.12$31.66Though a US-China conflict is far from inevitable, major tensions are building in the Asia-Pacific region. These strains are the result of historical enmity, cultural divergence, and deep ideological estrangement, not to mention apprehensions fueled by... -
Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century by Michael E. Brown 9780878401420
RRP: $61.92$55.22The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. In the aftermath of that event it is not unwarranted pessimism that lines the pages of "Grave New World", it is unavoidable reality... -
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security by Michael Desch 9780691181219
RRP: $45.15$36.30How professionalization and scholarly "rigor" made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America's intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post-9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert...