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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kyle beardsley”
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  • Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics

    A Mixed Methods Approach

    by Steven E. Lobell, Patrick James, Scott A. Silverstone, Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley, Edward Gonzalez, Norrin M. Ripsman ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation.These time-sensitive disputes between states, and even with violent non-state actors, do not involve significant risk of military escalation, at least in the moment. Investigating how and why some near crises escalate, while others do not, requires an explanation of the different dynamics of international disputes and the policy ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Mediation Dilemma

    by Kyle Beardsley ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Mediation has become a common technique for terminating violent conflicts both within and between states; while mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without its own problems. In The Mediation Dilemma, Kyle Beardsley highlights its long-term limitations. The result of this oft-superficial approach to peacemaking, immediate and reassuring as it may be, is often a fragile ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Zero-Sum Victory

    What We're Getting Wrong About War

    by Christopher D. Kolenda ...
    The military expert and author of Leadership presents "the most thoughtful analysis yet of America's recent conflicts—and future challenges" (Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal).Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in America's favor, capacity-building efforts, and tactical victories, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable ... Read more

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  • Restraint

    A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

    by Barry R. Posen ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint**, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics.** Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inside the Situation Room

    The Theory and Practice of Crisis Decision-Making

    Edited by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Keren Yarhi-Milo ...
    Combining decades of diplomacy and world-renowned scholarship, Inside the Situation Room bridges the gap between politics and academia to illuminate how world leaders make decisions in times of crisis. For decades, people have sought to understand how and why decisions are made in times of crisis, but very few get the opportunity to witness leaders' decision-making process. The result has been a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

    by Alex Mintz, Karl DeRouen Jr ...
    Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases and examples, which are written in an accessible style, include decisions made by leaders of the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Small Wars, Big Data

    The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

    by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro ...
    How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today’s conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Children at War

    by Peter W. Singer ...
    Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers.P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists.Singer writes about how the first American serviceman ... Read more

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  • Unmaking War, Remaking Men

    How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves

    by Kathleen Barry ...
    Kathleen Barry answers the perennial question: Is war inevitable? with an emphatic "no." She explores soldiers' experiences through a politics of empathy and reveals how men’s lives are made expendable for combat in which they suffer loss of their own souls. She then probes the psychopathy that marks world leaders from George W. Bush to Ariel Sharon to Osama bin Laden to show how war is made from ... Read more

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    How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Steve A. Yetiv ...
    A study examining how poor decision-making based on mental errors or cognitive biases hurts American foreign policy and national security.Author Steve A. Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders' decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ... Read more

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  • Squandered Opportunity

    Neoclassical Realism and Iranian Foreign Policy

    by Thomas Juneau ...
    The Islamic Republic of Iran faced a favorable strategic environment following the US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Its leadership attempted to exploit this window of opportunity by assertively seeking to expand Iran's interests throughout the Middle East. It fell far short, however, of fulfilling its long-standing ambition of becoming the dominant power in the Persian Gulf ... Read more

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