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  • Peace Support Operations

    Nordic Perspectives

    Edited by Eli Stamnes ...
    Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives brings together Nordic academics working in the field of peace support operations broadly defined. It contains a collection of articles that present different theoretical approaches to the study of peace support operations and contribute to enhance the knowledge of the Nordic countries’ participation in such operations. Its case studies describe the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • UN Peacebuilding Architecture

    The First 10 Years

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Eli Stamnes ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    Since its establishment, the UN's Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries. This edited volume takes stock of the overall impact of the PBA during its first decade in existence, and generates innovative recommendations for how the architecture can be modified and utilized to create more synergy and fusion between the UN's peace and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • International Organizations

    by Clive Archer ...
    What is the role of international organizations in the international political system?The fourth edition of Clive Archer’s widely used textbook continues to provide students with an introduction to international organizations, exploring their rise and development, and accounts for their significance in the modern international political system.International Organizations fourth edition:has been ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • How NATO Adapts

    Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950

    by Seth A. Johnston ...
    Series Book 132 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Despite momentous change, NATO remains a crucial safeguard of security and peace.Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.” These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s end, 9/11, or recent twenty-first ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics

    China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism

    by Øystein Tunsjø ...
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back to bipolarity—a system in which no third power can challenge the top two.The Return of Bipolarity in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Cold Peace

    Avoiding the New Cold War

    by Michael W. Doyle ...
    An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War.By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia’s lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post–Cold War years were a time of immense hope and possibility. They heralded an opportunity for creative cooperation among nations, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Powerplay

    The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia

    by Victor Cha ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A close look at the evolution of American political alliances in Asia and their futureWhile the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently under threat? ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Understanding NATO in the 21st Century

    Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance

    Edited by Graeme P. Herd, John Kriendler ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO’s potential evolution in the 21st century.The book seeks to identify the possible contours and trade-offs embedded within a potential third "Transatlantic Bargain" in the context of a U.S. strategic pivot in a "Pacific Century". To that end, it explores the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reluctant Warriors

    Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

    by Alexandra Sakaki, Kerstin Lukner, Hanns W. Maull ...
    Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order?Since the end of World War II, Germany and Japan have been the most reluctant of all major U.S. allies to take on military responsibilities. Given their histories, this reluctance certainly is understandable. But because of their size and economic importance, Germany and Japan are the most important U.S. allies in Europe ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model

    Challenges in the 21st Century

    Edited by Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala, Janne Holmén ...
    The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the Nordic ... Read more

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  • Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century

    Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest

    by Erwan Lagadec ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century.The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have become more variegated and shifting. The proposition that the US remains at once an 'indispensable' and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD