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Justice and the Genesis of War by David A. Welch 9780521558686
Booksplease Price: £41.37Studies of the causes of wars generally presuppose a 'realist' account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this... -
Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change by David A. Welch 9780691165943
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy... -
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History by Don Munton 9780199795703
Booksplease Price: £41.36In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Second Edition, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative... -
Japan as a 'Normal Country'?: A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World by Yoshihide Soeya 9781442611405
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic... -
Security: A Philosophical Investigation by 9781009270120
Booksplease Price: £26.61How do we know when we are investing wisely in security? Answering this question requires investigating what things are worth securing (and why); what threatens them; how best to protect them; and... -
Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection by Michael Taylor 9780521687041
Booksplease Price: £26.61A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a... -
Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection by Michael Taylor 9780521867450
Booksplease Price: £85.31A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a... -
U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, enemies and empire David Sylvan (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland) 9780415701358
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28What is the long-term nature of American foreign policy? This new book refutes the claim that it has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policies have been remarkably stable... -
Future States: From International to Global Political Order by Stephen Paul Haigh
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Globalization consists of an interlocking array of political, economic, social, and cultural forces that challenge the traditional international order in two key ways. First, states historically had... -
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Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace" by Rick McPeak
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in... -
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... -
Peacemaking by Democracies: The Effect of State Autonomy on the Post-World War Settlements by Norrin M. Ripsman 9780271023984
Booksplease Price: £44.03When theorists explain how democracies conduct foreign policy, they tend to ignore or downplay differences and assume that democratic governments all behave similarly. Challenging this assumption,... -
Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan by Stephen M. Saideman 9781442614734
Booksplease Price: £24.63Canada's six-year military mission in Afghanistan's Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an... -
Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan by Stephen M. Saideman 9781442646957
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Canada's six-year military mission in Afghanistan's Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an... -
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation by Jacques E. C. Hymans 9780521132251
Booksplease Price: £33.50Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have... -
Rethinking Japanese Security: Internal and External Dimensions by Peter J. Katzenstein
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Since the unexpected end of the Cold War, standard arguments about power politics can no longer be adopted uncritically. This has led to a renewed interest in Japan's unusually peaceful security... -
Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived by James G. Blight 9780742557000
Booksplease Price: £34.14The Virtual JFK DVD is now available! For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http://www.virtualjfk.com/ It Matters Who Is President-Then and Now At the heart of this... -
Narrative and the Making of US National Security by Ronald R. Krebs 9781107503991
Booksplease Price: £34.78Dominant narratives - from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror - have often served as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past failures and... -
Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village by Daniel H. Deudney
Booksplease Price: £42.81Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient... -
Narrative and the Making of US National Security by Ronald R. Krebs 9781107103955
Booksplease Price: £98.74Dominant narratives - from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror - have often served as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past failures and... -
The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam by Andrew Preston 9780674046320
Booksplease Price: £28.72Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitable. By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the... -
Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11 by Professor Robert G. Patman 9780275993627
Booksplease Price: £51.21This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11... -
The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara by James G. Blight 9780742542211
Booksplease Price: £35.01Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy...