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Conventional Deterrence by John J. Mearsheimer
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer... -
Conventional Deterrence by John J. Mearsheimer 9780801415692
RRP: $102.90Booksplease Price: $84.59Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer... -
Liddell Hart and the Weight of History by John J. Mearsheimer
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82For almost half a century, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was the most highly regarded writer on strategy and military matters in the English-speaking world and even today, his ideas are... -
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America's relationship with the Israel... -
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer 9780393349276
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.38The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China... -
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John J. Mearsheimer
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony-the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended-is doomed to failNamed a Financial Times Best Book of 2018"Idealists as well as realists need... -
How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy John J. Mearsheimer 9780300279870
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.26A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational?... -
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics by R Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Co-Director of the Program on International Security Policy John J Mearsheimer 9780199975457
Booksplease Price: $35.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199975457Author John J MearsheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP... -
The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths and Models by Richard Little 9780521874885
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $157.35The balance of power has been a central concept in the theory and practice of international relations for the past five hundred years. It has also played a key role in some of the most important... -
The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths and Models by Richard Little 9780521697606
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.95The balance of power has been a central concept in the theory and practice of international relations for the past five hundred years. It has also played a key role in some of the most important... -
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: An Enduring Debate by Scott Douglas Sagan 9780393920109
Booksplease Price: $50.38Over the past fifteen years, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons has been a staple in International Relations courses because of its brevity and crystal-clear explanations. The new edition, An Enduring... -
National and International Security by Michael Sheehan
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.98This title was first published in 2000. This series brings together significant journal articles appearing in the field of comparative politics over the past 30 years. The aim is to render accessible... -
US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Case for Continuity by Bledar Prifti 9783319453262
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book provides a comprehensive historical overview of US foreign policy in the Middle East using the theoretical framework of offensive realism and highlighting the role of geography and regional... -
The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics by Ken Booth 9780333587454
Booksplease Price: $97.82This provides the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the 'security dilemma'. By exploring the theory and practice of the security dilemma through the prisms of fear, cooperation and... -
Naval Strategy and National Security: An International Security Reader by Steven E. Miller 9780691607290
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $109.56These essays from the journal International Security cover aspects of past and present naval technologies and explore current disputes over American naval doctrine. Four of the contributions--those... -
American Diplomacy by George F. Kennan
Booksplease Price: $46.18For more than fifty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers... -
Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War by Grey Anderson 9781804292372
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $29.90Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO - pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior - have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by surging European military... -
How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam by Gil Merom 9780521008778
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.95In this 2003 book, Gil Merom argues that modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance between expedient and moral tolerance to the costs of war. Small... -
How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam by Gil Merom 9780521804035
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $157.35In this 2003 book, Gil Merom argues that modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance between expedient and moral tolerance to the costs of war. Small... -
Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations by Jenna Jordan
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $64.11One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts. In... -
The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa 9780300255010
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $42.00The end of the Cold War was an opportunity - our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as... -
Realism and International Politics Kenneth N. Waltz 9780415954785
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Realism and International Politics brings together the collected essays of Kenneth N. Waltz, one of the most important and influential thinkers of international relations in the second half of the... -
Atrocities of the Mind: Essays on Violence and Politics in the American Century Dwight Macdonald 9780226847993
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.99An essential collection of Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America.What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of... -
The Sources of Russian Aggression: Is Russia a Realist Power? by Sumantra Maitra 9781666935844
Booksplease Price: $179.87Moscow indulges in the military use of force and balancing behaviour, only when it perceives its interests to be threatened, but seeks to preserve, uphold, or return to the status-quo the moment the... -
Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict by Walter L. Hixson 9781108705325
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.66The United States and Israel have long had a 'special relationship'. The US became the first country in the world to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, and has been an important ally and... -
Atrocities of the Mind: Essays on Violence and Politics in the American Century Dwight Macdonald 9780226830971
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $185.96An essential collection of Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America.What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of... -
War, Peace, and International Political Realism: Perspectives from The Review of Politics by Keir A. Lieber 9780268160890
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $150.51Gathering together essays by some of the most influential modern political philosophers and theorists, War, Peace, and International Political Realism reveals the twentieth-century roots of the... -
Hegemony and Democracy by Bruce Russett
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77Hegemony and Democracy is constructed around the question of whether hegemony is sustainable, especially when the hegemon is a democratic state. The book draws on earlier publications over Bruce... -
War, Peace, and International Political Realism: Perspectives from The Review of Politics by Keir A. Lieber 9780268033842
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $50.69Gathering together essays by some of the most influential modern political philosophers and theorists, War, Peace, and International Political Realism reveals the twentieth-century roots of the... -
Power, Order, and Change in World Politics by G. John Ikenberry 9781107421066
Booksplease Price: $67.45Are there recurring historical dynamics and patterns that can help us understand today's power transitions and struggles over international order? What can we learn from the past? Are the cycles of... -
Blair's War David Coates (Wake Forest University, North Carolina) 9780745633596
Booksplease Price: $38.18Tony Blair and George Bush may have won the war in Iraq, but they are losing the peace at home. How did Blair come to support the US-led invasion of Iraq? Why did he risk taking Britain into a... -
Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics by Jeremy Pressman 9780801474439
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $37.82Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint... -
A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe by Michael H. Creswell
RRP: $144.80Booksplease Price: $117.31Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Michael Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. In the... -
Understanding Hamas: And Why It Matters Helena Cobban 9781682196342
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.18Both accessible and authoritative, Understanding Hamas provides much-needed insight into a widely misunderstood movement whose involvement in a just resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict will... -
The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War by Brendan Rittenhouse Green 9781108489867
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $70.98The study of nuclear weapons is dominated by a single theory - that of the nuclear revolution, or mutual assured destruction (MAD). Although such theorists largely perceive nuclear competition as... -
Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink by Karen J. Greenberg 9781108735803
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $46.39Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the... -
The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory by Nicolas Guilhot
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his... -
The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order by John M. Owen 9780300260731
Booksplease Price: $63.90How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor-and why democracies are losing Winner of the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for World Order "Owen makes a powerful case... -
The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump Patrick Porter 9781509538676
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $94.08In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace... -
The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO, and the EU in North and Central Europe by Andrew A. Michta 9780742538658
Booksplease Price: $80.66Are the relationships that the United States forged with North and Central Europe during the Cold War still viable today? As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declines and the European...