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This provocative and timely work examines various scenarios in which the deployment of nuclear weapons could occur, the probable consequences of such an escalation, the likely world reactions, and the plausible policy ramifications. Rather than...

Since the breakdown of the Oslo peace process in 2000 and the beginning of the second Intifada, conflict has escalated in Israel/Palestine and come to seem irreversible. The overwhelming power of the Israeli military has been unleashed against a largely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583671092Author Michel WarschawskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

From the Renaissance to the Cold War, the definitive survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare returns to print in a new paperback edition. Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972965910Author Tom GilliganFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Intelligence E-Publishing CompanyPublisher Intelligence E-Publishing...

Conflict Dynamics presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. In the book, Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery examine the evolving nature of violence in intrastate...

This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability...

Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power...

As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign policy. No grand strategy, however, is going to be completely novel. New administrations never start with a blank slate, so it is always possible to see...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692612637Author Prince HandleyFormat PaperbackImprint University of Excellence PressPublisher University of Excellence PressWeight(grams) 68g

The emergence of COVID-19 has raised urgent and important questions about the role of Canadian intelligence and national security within a global health crisis. Some argue that the effects of COVID-19 on Canada represent an intelligence failure, or a...

Once dismissed as ineffectual, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in the past twenty years emerged as a powerful international organization. Member states allow the IAEA to render judgment on matters vital to peace and security while...

"The Limits of Alignment" is an engaging and accessible study that explores how small states and middle powers of Southeast Asia ensure their security in a world where they are overshadowed by greater powers. John D. Ciorciari challenges a central...

Hurricane Katrina is the latest in a series of major disasters that were not well managed, but it is not likely to be the last. Category 4 and category 5 hurricanes will, according to most predictions, become both more frequent and more intense in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846149Author John KerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 159mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759857Author MR Jeffrey RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990926221Author J Michael SpringmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Daena Publications LLCPublisher Daena Publications LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470450437Author Alan DershowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and Michelle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866382649Author Bobby AndersonFormat PaperbackImprint East-West CenterPublisher East-West CenterWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469669526Author Douglas LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina Press

In 1974 Richard Nixon's defense secretary, James Schlesinger, announced that the United States would change its nuclear targeting policy from "assured destruction" to "limited nuclear options." In this account of the Schlesinger...

Combining vast scholarship and a deep understanding of Arab culture, Nadav Safran has written a sophisticated book about the politics of Saudi Arabia. In a narrative that emphasizes the Saudis' sense of the precariousness of their state and of their...

This title presents a triad of factors fostering death and destruction among civilians. In an era when the global community is confronted with challenges posed by violent nonstate organizations - from FARC in Colombia to the Taliban in Afghanistan - our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979671531Author Edip YukselFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Brainbow PressPublisher Brainbow PressWeight(grams) 229g

Do some technologies provoke war? Do others promote peace? Offense-defense theory contends that technological change is an important cause of conflict: leaders will be tempted to launch wars when they believe innovation favors attackers over defenders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393332933Author Orr KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

From the controversial expert who brought Iran's nuclear program to the attention of the world in 2002 comes a searing expose of the inner workings and plans of Iran's mullahs. With access to dissident groups inside Iran, Alireza Jafarzadeh traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976458029Author Elizabeth a DowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Systemops ModelsPublisher Systemops ModelsWeight(grams) 136g

To the American public it's a 2,000-mile-long project to keep illegal immigrants, narcotics, and terrorists on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border. In the deserts of Arizona, it's a "virtual fence" of high-tech electronic sensors, cameras,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876096222Author Gideon RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Council on Foreign RelationsPublisher Council on Foreign RelationsWeight(grams)...

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,...

Syria has long presented a serious problem for the Middle East region and U.S. policy. With its mix of competing religious and ethnic groups, radical ideologies, and political repression, it is a 72,000-square-mile time bomb waiting to go off. Yet...

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531324Author Professor William LangewiescheFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648284840Author Marial Mach AduotFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bor PublishersPublisher Bor PublishersWeight(grams) 445g

Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist international relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed into discourse about technology and security. With a focus on big data, communications technology, social media, cryptocurrency...

Military alliances provide constraints and opportunities for states seeking to advance their interests around the globe. War, from the Western perspective, is not a solitary endeavor. Partnerships of all types serve as a foundation for the projection of...

In Dark Pasts, Jennifer M. Dixon asks why states deny past atrocities, and when and why they change the stories they tell about them. In recent decades, states have been called on to acknowledge and apologize for historic wrongs. Some have apologized,...

Security Studies: An Applied Introduction offers a transformative tool to understand, analyse, and engage with the complexities of security in the modern world. This groundbreaking new text redefines the landscape of security studies with the following...