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  • Military Strategy of Middle Powers

    Competing for Security, Influence, and Status in the 21st Century

    by Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    Military Strategy of Middle Powers explores to what degree twenty-first-century middle powers adjust their military strategies due to changes in the international order, such as the decline in US power.The overarching objective of the book is to explain continuity and change in the strategies of a group of middle powers during the twenty-first century. These strategies are described, compared, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Military Strategy of Great Powers

    Managing Power Asymmetry and Structural Change in the 21st Century

    by Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book explores the military strategies of the five system-determining great powers during the twenty-first century.The book’s point of departure is that analyses of countries’ defence strategies should acknowledge that states come in various shapes and sizes and that their strategic choices are affected by their perceptions of their position in the international system and by power asymmetries ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Military Strategy in an Era of Unipolar Demise

    Exploring Strategic Diversity among Nations

    by Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book presents a systematic comparison of the military strategies pursued by five great powers, eight major middle powers and eight middle powers during the early twenty-first century.In addition to mapping the strategic priorities of these states, the study develops and applies a theoretical framework to explain differences and similarities in their strategic priorities. Moreover, the work ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Military Strategies of the New European Allies

    A Comparative Study

    by Håkan Edström, Jacob Westberg ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book analyses how and to what extent ex-communist states have adjusted their defence strategies since joining the EU and NATO, and how differences and similarities between their strategies can be explained.Between 1999 and 2013, four phases of enlargement took place when the European Union (EU) and NATO allowed 11 new former communist states to enter both organisations. These states share ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Military Strategy of Small States

    Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century

    by Håkan Edström, Dennis Gyllensporre, Jacob Westberg ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    The book explores how small states adjust their military strategies in response to external shocks.Using primary sources from four Nordic countries, (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), this volume explores how small states have adjusted their military strategies in response to external shocks of the 21st century. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Russian interventions in Georgia and Ukraine, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Forgotten Ally

    China's World War II, 1937–1945

    by Rana Mitter ...
    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Read more

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  • Future War and the Defence of Europe

    by John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French ...
    Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • NATO

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Jennifer Medcalf ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A thorough and straightforward overview of the full spectrum of NATO's military and non-military activities since the Cold War, this accessible study also provides valuable insight into the issues and problems facing NATO in the post-9/11 and post-Iraq War world. Author Jennifer Medcalf clearly and concisely discusses each of the main areas on NATO's agenda and also looks at the future of the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Active Defense

    China's Military Strategy since 1949

    by M. Taylor Fravel ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    What changes in China’s modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) calls “strategic guidelines.” What accounts for these numerous changes? Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China’s military strategy from the mid-twentieth ... Read more

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  • Russia-China Relations

    Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals?

    Edited by Sarah Kirchberger, Svenja Sinjen, Nils Wörmer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategic ... Read more

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  • Reliability and Alliance Interdependence

    The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949–1969

    by Iain D. Henry ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence**, Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence.**It is often assumed that if the United States failed to defend an ally, then this disloyalty would instantly and irrevocably damage US alliances across the globe. Henry proposes that such damage is by no means inevitable and that predictions of ... Read more

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  • Russia's Military Revival

    by Bettina Renz ...
    Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow’s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant military actor on the international stage.In this cutting-edge study, Bettina Renz provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of Russia’s ... Read more

    $19.00 USD