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The Military's Business: Designing Military Power for the Future by Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen 9781107477353
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $49.59If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures... -
A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among... -
Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives by Andreas Krieg
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.69A 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... -
Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives by Andreas Krieg 9781647123352
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $146.41A 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... -
True to Their Salt: Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces by Rob Johnson
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.25In the last decade an Iraqi Army and an Afghan National Army were created entirely from scratch, the founding of which was deemed to be a crucial measure for the establishment of security and the... -
War, Religion and Empire: The Transformation of International Orders by Andrew Phillips
Booksplease Price: $63.22What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order,... -
Empire of Terror: Iran'S Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by Mark D Silinsky 9781640123137
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.89In Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States' deadliest enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Guards, bring Iran's sway over much of the... -
The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces: From the Rhine to Afghanistan by Anthony King 9781107647688
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91As a result of new strategic threats, Europe's land forces are currently undergoing a historic transformation which may reflect wider processes of European integration. Europe's mass, mainly... -
The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces: From the Rhine to Afghanistan by Anthony King 9780521760942
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $175.48As a result of new strategic threats, Europe's land forces are currently undergoing a historic transformation which may reflect wider processes of European integration. Europe's mass, mainly... -
The Cauldron: NATO's Campaign in Libya by Rob Weighill
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $88.67In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without... -
The Risk Society at War: Terror, Technology and Strategy in the Twenty-First Century by Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen 9780521867917
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $167.97In the globalised world of the twenty-first century, security policy in Western societies is driven by a wish to prevent future threats from becoming reality. Applying theories of 'risk society' to... -
Drone by Adam Rothstein
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon,... -
The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice by Colin S. Gray 9780198779124
Booksplease Price: $92.84The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice is an original contribution to the general theory of strategy. While heavily indebted to Carl von Clausewitz, Sun-tzu, and the very few other classic authors,... -
Striking Back: How the West is Failing on National Security by Lucas Kello
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.10Faced with relentless technological aggression that imperils democracy, how can Western nations fight back? Before the cyber age, foreign interference in democratic politics played out in a... -
Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War Tim Sweijs 9781805265993
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.52Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked a major shift in thinking about the future of war. This book offers a comprehensive examination of its impact on visions of conflict. War in the... -
NATO: The Power of Partnerships by Hakan Edstrom 9780230273771
Booksplease Price: $91.14NATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they 'provide' more security than they 'consume'. But the utility for NATO... -
The World After the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957 by Derek Leebaert
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.95One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments... -
Deciphering Sun Tzu: How to Read the Art of War by Derek M. C. Yuen
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.05As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power con-tinues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute. In... -
Deciphering Sun Tzu: How to Read the Art of War by Derek M. C. Yuen 9781787387232
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.98As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power con-tinues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute. In... -
Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012 by Stig Jarle Hansen 9781849042505
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $97.07Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained... -
International Security Studies: Theory and Practice Peter Hough 9781032641058
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.67Fully revised to incorporate recent developments, this third edition of International Security Studies provides students with a comprehensive and accessible textbook on security with a particular... -
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking... -
NATO's Democratic Retrenchment: Hegemony After the Return of History by Henrik B.L. Larsen 9781032240800
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Exploring NATO's post-Cold War determination to support democracy abroad, this book addresses the alliance's adaptation to the new illiberal backlashes in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and... -
The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power by Patrick Porter
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.52Does technology kill distance? Does the 'globalisation' of the world make the US and its allies vulnerable to violence, terrorism or cyber-assault? 'Globalism'-- the belief that changes in... -
The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power by Patrick Porter 9781626161924
Booksplease Price: $59.81According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent... -
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America's Grand Strategist by Justin Vaisse
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $51.48As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America's role in the... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: $63.36Booksplease Price: $50.15In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union... -
Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009 by Michael A. Innes 9781787383173
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.05America's wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist 'sanctuaries' and 'safe havens'. From mountain redoubts in Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq, Washington's... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: $30.21Booksplease Price: $24.67How the Cold War ended - and the people who made it happen In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that... -
Terrorism: An International Perspective by Gus Martin
Booksplease Price: $97.52A comprehensive investigation of modern terrorism and the global terrorist environment. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach and discusses an array of global case studies from the ideology of... -
Tibet: An Unfinished Story by Lezlee Brown Halper
Booksplease Price: $39.20Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the... -
Pragmatism in Foreign Policy: Comparing the US, China, and Singapore by Charles Chao Rong Phua 9781032065403
Booksplease Price: $117.16What is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality?Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing... -
Towards Strategic Pragmatism in Foreign Policy: Cases of United States of America, China and Singapore by Charles Chao Rong Phua 9781032065410
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40What is pragmatism? Is it a means to an end, or an end in itself? Is it antithetical to ideology or morality?Arguing that pragmatism is a skill much more than an attribute, Phua examines how viewing... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780198757917
RRP: $63.36Booksplease Price: $51.13With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist... -
Policy Strategy and Innovation Primer: Process, Praxis and Tools Charles Chao Rong Phua (Chairman of Solaris Consortium, Singapore) 9781032309095
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $72.42Phua focuses on applying the best of corporate strategy and innovation tools and praxis into the policy process with the aim of devising a coherent policy strategy-innovation framework and process... -
Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman Charles Dunst 9781399704434
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.89' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim Darroch'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Rt. Hon... -
Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations: Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future by Charles Chao Rong Phua 9781032279572
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see "US as US" and "China as... -
Values in Foreign Policy: Investigating Ideals and Interests by Krishnan Srinivasan 9781786607508
Booksplease Price: $78.74Values in Foreign Policy: Investigating Ideals and Interests covers all aspects of the tension between values and national priorities, with specific reference to the leading countries of today. The...