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  • The Conquest Of War

    Alternative Strategies For Global Security

    by Harry B Hollins, Averill L. Powers, Mark Sommer, Roger D Fisher ...
    This book explores alternative systems and strategies for global security by which the conflicts between nations can be carried on, and ultimately resolved, without recourse to war, examining system changes some of which may take many years to enact. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • The Sword and the Dollar

    Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race

    by Michael Parenti ...
    To many, the foreign policy directives of the United States seem bewildering and sometimes inharmonious with its domestic political values. Why does the U.S. seem to support foreign dictators? Why has it invested so many of its resources in stockpiling nuclear arms? Why doesn't the U.S. act as a force for peace throughout the world? In this probing, provocative analysis, Michael Parenti reveals ... Read more

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  • Seizing Power

    The Strategic Logic of Military Coups

    by Naunihal Singh ...
    How coups happen and why half of them fail.While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject. Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300 hours of interviews with coup participants and an original dataset of 471 coup attempts worldwide ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • By More Than Providence

    Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783

    by Michael Green ...
    Series series A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
    Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex

    by James Ledbetter ...

    $18.79 USD

  • US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

    The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower

    by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Mackubin Thomas Owens ...
    Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Reactions

    How Nuclear-Armed States Behave

    by Mark S. Bell ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Nuclear Reactionsanalyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries.Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than deterrence. They are leveraged to pursue a wide range of goals in international politics, and the nations that ... Read more

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  • The Long War

    A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II

    Edited by Andrew Bacevich ...
    Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long War" has left its imprint on virtually every aspect of American life; by considering it as a whole, The ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Canada and the Nuclear Arms Race

    by Ernie Regehr ...
    First published in 1983, this book reports from the middle of the nuclear arms race, when the world's two superpowers, the US and the USSR, were adding increasingly sophisticated weapons to their arsenals, reaching a point where they could effectively wipe each other out many times over. Some of Canada's most distinguished critics of the nuclear arms race examine this drift to annihilation, show ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Nuclear Statecraft

    History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age

    by Francis J. Gavin ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    "Gavin not only succeeds in disentangling postwar nuclear history from the US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War, but provides a deeper and more complex understanding of the long-term effects of nuclear weapons on Great Power relations."— Matthew Jones â• International AffairsWe are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Hopes and fears

    Edited by Hanna Newcombe ...
    It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy

    by Will Moreland ...
    How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international orderSeventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war. The European Recovery Plan-better known as the Marshall Plan, ... Read more

    $19.69 USD