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Targeting Civilians in War by Alexander B. Downes 9780801478376
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this vitally important book on a topic of... -
Targeting Civilians in War by Alexander B. Downes 9780801446344
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £36.53Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this vitally important book on a topic of... -
Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong by Alexander B. Downes
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.30In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change... -
US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint A. Trevor Thrall (CATO Institute, Washington,DC, USA) 9781138084544
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book challenges the dominant strategic culture and makes the case for restraint in US grand strategy in the 21st century. Grand strategy, meaning a state's theory about how it can achieve... -
Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism by Michael C. Desch 9780801888014
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £29.11Since 1815 democratic states have emerged victorious from most wars, leading many scholars to conclude that democracies are better equipped to triumph in armed conflict with autocratic and other... -
Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military Cohesion by Jasen J. Castillo
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In Endurance and War, Jasen Castillo... -
Dictators at War and Peace by Jessica L. P. Weeks
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Why 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... -
Dictators at War and Peace by Jessica L. P. Weeks 9780801452963
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £92.20Why 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... -
The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics by Robert J. Art 9781442233058
Booksplease Price: £83.01The Use of Force, long considered a classic in its own right, brings together enduring, influential works on the role of military power in foreign policy and international politics. Now in its eighth... -
Violence and Restraint in Civil War: Civilian Targeting in the Shadow of International Law by Jessica A. Stanton
Booksplease Price: £30.55Media coverage of civil wars often focuses on the most gruesome atrocities and the most extreme conflicts, which might lead one to think that all civil wars involve massive violence against civilians... -
Violence after War: Explaining Instability in Post-Conflict States by Michael J. Boyle 9781421412573
Booksplease Price: £65.73The end of one war is frequently the beginning of another because the cessation of conflict produces two new challenges: a contest between the winners and losers over the terms of peace, and a battle... -
State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation by Tanisha M. Fazal 9780691134604
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance of individual states from the world...