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Beyond NATO: A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe by Michael E. O'Hanlon
RRP: $16.76$15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732570Author Michael E. O'HanlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g -
Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies by Peter W Galbraith 9781416562269
RRP: $20.63$14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416562269Author Peter W GalbraithFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Army of Afghanistan: A Political History of a Fragile Institution by Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
RRP: $77.40$68.01This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its analysis of this vitally important institution. Giustozzi locates the Army's development within the wider context of state-... -
Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2022: Key Developments and Trends The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), UK) 9781032372679
RRP: $122.54$106.23The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies... -
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel Abraham Ben-Zvi 9780714682518
RRP: $64.49$56.12This volume seeks to reconstruct the process by which the Kennedy administration decided to sell to Israel Hawk surface-to-air missiles. It argues that both domestic considerations and political calculations were part of a highly complex decision made by... -
War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict in the Afghan Frontier by Carter Malkasian 9781849042642
RRP: $45.15$40.30War in Afghanistan will never be understood without getting to grips with the small places - the provinces, districts, and villages - where most of the fighting occurred, away from the cities, in hundreds of hamlets, valleys, and farms amid a vast... -
Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower: An Introduction by Ryan Burke
RRP: $48.38$47.60Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower will introduce readers to contemporary strategy and the operational level of war, particularly as it relates to airpower. This intermediate textbook was developed as required reading for all US Air... -
Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan 9781400034574
RRP: $27.09$19.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400034574Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)... -
Interrogation in War and Conflict: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis Christopher Andrew 9780367600785
RRP: $51.59$45.23This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century. Despite the current public interest and its military importance, interrogation and questioning in... -
Dictators at War and Peace by Jessica L. P. Weeks
RRP: $32.24$27.95Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian... -
Diplomatic Security: A Comparative Analysis by Eugenio Cusumano
RRP: $74.82$64.72The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own... -
Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege by Sue-Ann Harding 9780719085352
RRP: $109.65$77.62This book investigates the reportage of the 2004 Beslan hostage-taking published by three very different Russian-language websites: RIA-Novosti, Kavkazcenter, and Caucasian Knot, tracking the ways in which these three sites constructed six different... -
Optimizing Cyberdeterrence: A Comprehensive Strategy for Preventing Foreign Cyberattacks by Robert Mandel 9781626164130
RRP: $36.12$31.66Cyberattacks are one of the greatest fears for governments and the private sector. The attacks come without warning and can be extremely costly and embarrassing. Robert Mandel offers a unique and comprehensive strategic vision for how governments, in... -
PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking by Phillip C. Saunders
RRP: $32.24$27.95In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military-suggesting that a... -
Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member-States Matter by Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters 9780367771614
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the development of cooperation between the EU and NATO, two key non-state actors in the European security architecture.The work examines the relationship between the EU and NATO by focusing on the perspective of member states... -
Jihadism Constrained: The Limits of Transnational Jihadism and What It Means for Counterterrorism by Barak Mendelsohn 9781538118481
RRP: $45.15$41.91How threatening are al-Qaeda and the Islamic State? In Jihadism Constrained, Barak Mendelsohn suggests that although jihadi terrorism is a serious challenge, it must not be exaggerated. Transnational terrorist organizations and jihadi transnational... -
No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security by Thomas M. Nichols
RRP: $45.15$39.65For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades... -
Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump by Karen J. Greenberg 9780691215839
RRP: $32.25$25.79How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itselfIn the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen... -
Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2023: Key developments and trends The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), UK) 9781032594446
RRP: $116.10$101.28The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies... -
Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces by C. Christine Fair 9780195342048
RRP: $23.21$20.87After America's Iraq adventure devolved into a debacle, a chorus of commentators and analysts noted that the U.S. military had no plan to fight a counterinsurgency campaign. Given the failure of conventional tactics, America in the last two years has... -
Deradicalising Violent Extremists: Counter-Radicalisation and Deradicalisation Programmes and their Impact in Muslim Majority States Hamed El-Said 9780415525206
RRP: $61.91$53.93Terrorism remains one of the major threats facing the world community. While literature on the subject is dominated by discussion of the factors leading individuals and groups to join violent extremist, terrorist groups, the question of what can lead... -
The Cyber Deterrence Problem by Aaron F. Brantly 9781786615657
RRP: $54.18$50.00The United States' national security depends on a secure, reliable and resilient cyberspace. The inclusion of digital systems into every aspect of US national security has been underway since World War II and has increased with the proliferation of... -
Ethics Education in the Military Nigel de Lee 9780754671152
RRP: $51.59$45.23With formal ethics education programmes being a rarity in most countries' armed forces, there is a growing importance for servicemen to undergo additional military ethics training. But how do we ensure that soldiers learn the right lessons from it?... -
Trapped in the War on Terror by Ian S. Lustick 9780812239836
RRP: $58.05$50.54The first principle of terrorism is to understand that the weak win by exploiting the strength of the powerful. When 9/11 terrorists with box cutters hijacked American airliners, they transformed America's preeminent transportation system into a... -
Strategy and Ethnocentrism (Routledge Revivals) Ken Booth 9781138781627
RRP: $49.01$43.06Ken Booth's study, first published in 1979, investigates the way in which cultural distortions have affected the theory and execution of strategy. Its aim is to illustrate the importance of ethnocentrism in all areas of the subject, to follow through its... -
Conflict in Cyber Space: Theoretical, Strategic and Legal Pespectives Karsten Friis 9781138497955
RRP: $59.33$51.77Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book explores the key challenges associated with the proliferation of cyber capabilities. Over the past two decades, a new man-made domain of conflict has materialized. Alongside armed conflict in the... -
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect: Who Should Intervene? by James Pattison 9780199656622
RRP: $68.37$54.48Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more... -
A World Challenged: Fighting Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century by Yevgeny M. Primakov 9780815734215
$28.86In this candid and sobering account, former Russian premier Yevgeny M. Primakov considers the threats posed by independent terrorist organizations to the security of the global community. As the attacks of September 11, 2001 made clear, the course of... -
Americaas #1 Adversary: And What We Must Do About It a Now! by John M. Poindexter 9781735428543
RRP: $18.05$10.15Three distinguished experts and policy practitioners declare: "Despite the wrongs committed against China in the past, the People's Republic of China must not represent the future, for it is corrupt. Harking back to what Ronald Reagan did to spur the... -
The Future of Strategy by Colin S. Gray 9780745687933 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.05$31.24Strategy is not a modern invention. It is an essential and enduring feature of human history that is here to stay. In this original essay, Colin S. Gray, world-renowned scholar of strategic thought, discusses the meaning of strategy and its importance... -
Confronting the Evolving Global Security Landscape: Lessons from the Past and Present Max G. Manwaring 9798765135914
RRP: $37.40$31.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765135914Author Max G. ManwaringFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
(In)Security: Identifying the Invisible Disruptors of Security Gitanjali Adlakha-Hutcheon 9783031676079
RRP: $154.79$131.57What does it take to disrupt insecurity? How does one disrupt the invisibility of security? How does one make the invisible factors that define and impact security visible? For a start, by giving voice to the unheard and the marginalized, engaging... -
War and Data on Armed Conflicts: Global Networks Examining Casualties Motomichi Igarashi 9789819764174
RRP: $141.89$120.60This book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the entities responsible for the production of data on armed conflicts (DAC), the processes by which it is generated, and the international norms that govern it. While numerous studies have... -
Emerging Security Challenges: American Jihad, Terrorism, Civil War, and Human Rights Seung-Whan Choi 9798765135938
RRP: $37.40$31.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765135938Author Seung-Whan ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower Brandon J. Weichert 9781645720584
RRP: $20.58$17.49When President Donald J. Trump announced the creation of America’s sixth branch of the military, the United States Space Force, many in Washington scoffed. But, U.S. rivals in China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea took notice. Since the end of the Cold... -
Military Theory and the Conduct of War: What Is Strategy All About? Azar Gat 9781911723936
RRP: $21.92$18.63The question of whether there is a general, universal, theory for the conduct of war has long preoccupied famous military thinkers, military people, and students of military affairs. War and its conduct have changed across history, most notably under the... -
Climate Security Ashok Swain 9781529670844
RRP: $34.82$29.59How does the climate crisis relate to global security issues? What impact do increasing temperatures, droughts, sea level rises and extreme weather have on borders, war, migration and unrest? This nuanced, urgent book cuts into the heart of this... -
Post-Conflict Referendums and Peace Processes: Pathways to Peace and Democracy? Kentaro Fujikawa 9781032668833
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book provides a comparative study of the impact of referendums on conflict resolution and peacebuilding in post-conflict societies.Post-conflict referendums have increasingly been held as part of peace processes. While policy-makers are hopeful that... -
Ontological Security-Seeking: National Identities under Stress Regina Karp 9781032804347
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book addresses a central puzzle in ontological security theory, namely the relationship between identity continuity and change, and the role anxiety plays in fostering and inhibiting change.The work argues for a more nuanced perspective on how... -
Climate Security Ashok Swain 9781529670851
RRP: $96.75$82.24How does the climate crisis relate to global security issues? What impact do increasing temperatures, droughts, sea level rises and extreme weather have on borders, war, migration and unrest? This nuanced, urgent book cuts into the heart of this...