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Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure by Leo J. Blanken 9781626162457
RRP: $114.81$101.79Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation. In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how... -
Congress and Civil-Military Relations by Colton C. Campbell 9781626161856
RRP: $108.36$95.68While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relations - the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leadership that commands it. This unique book edited by... -
Cyber Blockades by Alison Lawlor Russell 9781626161122
RRP: $36.12$31.66Cyber Blockades is the first book to examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data. Cyber blockades can take... -
Cyber Blockades by Alison Lawlor Russell 9781626161115
RRP: $108.36$95.68Cyber Blockades is the first book to examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data. Cyber blockades can take... -
Middle Powers and the Rise of China by Bruce Gilley 9781626160835
RRP: $114.81$101.28China's rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as "middle powers" are responding to China's growing economic, diplomatic,... -
India's Rise as an Asian Power: Nation, Neighborhood, and Region by Sandy Gordon 9781626160743
RRP: $61.92$54.71India's Rise as an Asian Power examines India's rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian... -
Water: Asia's New Battleground by Brahma Chellaney 9781626160125
RRP: $61.92$54.71This title is the winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book Award. The battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in... -
The End of Strategic Stability?: Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries by Lawrence Rubin 9781626166035
RRP: $41.28$36.97During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood... -
Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter 9781626165649
RRP: $108.36$95.68Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? Are we standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order? These are among the many pressing security questions addressed... -
Allies That Count: Junior Partners in Coalition Warfare by Olivier Schmitt 9781626165472
RRP: $41.28$36.97What qualities make an ally useful in coalition warfare, and when is an ally more trouble than it's worth? Allies That Count analyzes the utility of junior partners in coalition warfare and reaches surprising conclusions. In this volume, Olivier... -
Allies That Count: Junior Partners in Coalition Warfare by Olivier Schmitt 9781626165465
RRP: $123.84$109.61What qualities make an ally useful in coalition warfare, and when is an ally more trouble than it's worth? Allies That Count analyzes the utility of junior partners in coalition warfare and reaches surprising conclusions. In this volume, Olivier... -
Understanding Cyber Conflict: Fourteen Analogies by George Perkovich 9781626164970
RRP: $114.81$101.79Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict-including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns-require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink... -
When Proliferation Causes Peace: The Psychology of Nuclear Crises by Michael D. Cohen 9781626164956
RRP: $38.06$34.20Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international relations scholarship. Michael D. Cohen argues that nuclear weapons acquisition often does dangerously... -
The Future of Extended Deterrence: The United States, NATO, and Beyond by Stefanie von Hlatky 9781626162655
RRP: $61.92$54.71Are NATO's mutual security commitments strong enough today to deter all adversaries? Is the nuclear umbrella as credible as it was during the Cold War? Backed by the full range of US and allied military capabilities, NATO's mutual defense treaty has been... -
Soviet Leaders and Intelligence: Assessing the American Adversary during the Cold War by Raymond L. Garthoff 9781626162280
RRP: $103.20$91.22During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States. Although effective on an operational level, Soviet leaders and their intelligence chiefs fell short when it came to... -
Power and Restraint: The Rise of the United States, 1898-1941 by Jeffrey W. Meiser 9781626161771
RRP: $61.92$54.71At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States emerged as an economic colossus in command of a new empire. Yet for the next forty years the United States eschewed the kind of aggressive grand strategy that had marked other rising imperial powers... -
Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security by Frank R. Spellman 9781598889352
RRP: $123.84$108.33The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers,... -
Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War by Hy Rothstein 9781589019089
RRP: $61.92$54.71The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant numbers of US combat troops will remain in Afghanistan... -
Deep Currents and Rising Tides: The Indian Ocean and International Security by John Garofano 9781589019676
RRP: $61.92$54.71The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its... -
NATO in Search of a Vision by Gulnur Aybet 9781589016309
RRP: $61.92$54.71As the NATO Alliance enters its seventh decade, it finds itself involved in an array of military missions ranging from Afghanistan to Kosovo to Sudan. It also stands at the center of a host of regional and global partnerships. Yet, NATO has still to... -
Shadow Warfare: Cyberwar Policy in the United States, Russia and China by Elizabeth Van Wie Davis 9781538149669
RRP: $121.26$111.25Cyberwarfare, like the seismic shift of policy with nuclear warfare, is modifying warfare into non-war warfare. A few distinctive characteristics of cyberwar emerge. Cyberwarfare has blurred the distinction between adversary and ally. Cyber probes... -
Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From National Security to Human Security by Ralph Carter 9781538141410
RRP: $51.60$45.95The sixth edition begins with a brief introduction into foreign policymaking and the case study approach. Thirteen original case studies written expressly for this edited volume then follow. The cases deal with a wide range of policy areas: national... -
Europe's High-End Military Challenges: The Future of European Capabilities and Missions by Seth G. Jones 9781538140437
RRP: $47.73$42.13This CSIS report examines the evolution of European military capabilities over the next decade. It asks two main questions. What military capabilities might European allies and partners of the United States possess by 2030? And what types of military... -
Cyber in the Age of Trump: The Unraveling of America's National Security Policy by Charlie Mitchell 9781538130681
RRP: $45.15$39.93Did the Trump administration have a cybersecurity strategy, or was it hell-bent on dismantling years of consensus-building on how the nation should respond to an existential threat to its digital life blood? Based on insider accounts and exclusive... -
Strategic Cyber Deterrence: The Active Cyber Defense Option by Scott Jasper 9781538104880
RRP: $122.55$112.90According to the FBI, about 4000 ransomware attacks happen every day. In the United States alone, victims lost $209 million to ransomware in the first quarter of 2016. Even worse is the threat to critical infrastructure, as seen by the malware infections... -
Precision: A History of American Warfare by James Patton Rogers 9781526178046
RRP: $109.65$96.81We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history.As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve... -
Torture in the National Security Imagination by Stephanie Athey 9781517913281
RRP: $30.95$26.88Reassessing the role of torture in the context of police violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism At the midpoint of a century of imperial expansion, marked on one end by the Philippine–American War of 1899–1902 and on the other by... -
Insecurity by Richard Grusin 9781517913106
RRP: $28.37$24.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517913106Author Richard GrusinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia 9781503634527
RRP: $117.39$101.81The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor... -
Global Data Shock: Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload by Robert Mandel 9781503608962
RRP: $36.11$31.14Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. More data is better in an information-hungry world, but too much data paralyzes individual and institutional abilities to process and use information effectively... -
How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics by Itty Abraham 9781503608412
RRP: $28.37$24.76Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and... -
Global Data Shock: Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload by Robert Mandel 9781503608252
RRP: $149.64$129.28Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. More data is better in an information-hungry world, but too much data paralyzes individual and institutional abilities to process and use information effectively... -
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics by Brian D. Blankenship 9781501772474
RRP: $49.02$43.43The Burden-Sharing Dilemma examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for their own defense. The United States has a mixed track record of encouraging allied... -
The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age by Vipin Narang 9781501767012
RRP: $139.32$120.49In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and... -
The Justice Dilemma: Leaders and Exile in an Era of Accountability by Daniel Krcmaric 9781501750212
RRP: $43.86$38.56Abusive leaders are now held accountable for their crimes in a way that was unimaginable just a few decades ago. What are the consequences of this recent push for international justice? In The Justice Dilemma, Daniel Krcmaric explains why the "golden... -
Security, Loyalty, and Science by Walter Gellhorn 9781501740671
RRP: $16.76$15.18Both sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national security and its effect upon scientific progress. The costs and advantages of secrecy in certain areas of science and the conflict between... -
Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents by Paul C. Avey 9781501740381
RRP: $58.05$50.54Why would countries without nuclear weapons even think about fighting nuclear-armed opponents? A simple answer is that no one believes nuclear weapons will be used. But that answer fails to consider why nonnuclear state leaders would believe that in the... -
Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence through Local Agents by Eli Berman 9781501733055
RRP: $139.32$121.00The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A... -
National Secession: Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns by Philip G. Roeder 9781501725982
RRP: $58.05$50.54How do some national-secessionist campaigns get on the global agenda whereas others do not? Which projects for new nation-states, Philip Roeder asks, give rise to mayhem in the politics of existing states? National secession has been explained by... -
Insider Threats by Matthew Bunn 9781501705168
RRP: $139.32$120.49High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders-trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. From Edward Snowden to the Fort Hood shooter to the theft of nuclear materials, the...