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“michael c horowitz”

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  • The Diffusion of Military Power

    Causes and Consequences for International Politics

    by Michael C. Horowitz ...
    The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. Michael Horowitz argues that a state or actor wishing to adopt a military innovation must possess both the financial resources to buy or build the technology and the internal organizational capacity to accommodate any ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Leaders Fight

    by Michael C. Horowitz, Allan C. Stam, Cali M. Ellis ...
    The history of political events is made by people. From wars to elections to political protests, the choices we make, our actions, how we behave, dictate events. Not all individuals have the same impact on our world and our lives. Some peoples' choices alter the pathways that history takes. In particular, national chief executives play a large role in forging the destinies of the countries they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Logic of Violence in Civil War

    by Stathis N. Kalyvas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • 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

  • Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict

    by Lester R. Kurtz ...
    The 2nd edition of Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict provides timely and useful information about antagonism and reconciliation in all contexts of public and personal life.Building on the highly-regarded 1st edition (1999), and publishing at a time of seemingly inexorably increasing conflict and violent behaviour the world over, the Encyclopedia is an essential reference for students ... Read more

    $1,597.49 USD

  • Revolution and Dictatorship

    The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

    by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way ...
    Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Adolescent Psychology Around the World

    Edited by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett ...
    This book paints a portrait of adolescent psychology in 4 major regions: Africa/the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Featuring 24 revised and updated chapters from the International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2007), readers are introduced to the way the majority of the world’s adolescents actually live. Most contributors are indigenous to the country they review. As a whole the book ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Confronting Evil

    Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide

    by James Waller ...
    While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made. Despite the post-Holocaust consensus that "Never Again" would the world allow civilians to be victims of genocide, the reality is closer to "Again and Again." As many as 170 million civilians across the world were victims ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Painful Choices

    A Theory of Foreign Policy Change

    by David A. Welch ...
    Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory. He then "test drives" the theory in a series of comparative case studies in the security and trade ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Crime of All Crimes

    Toward a Criminology of Genocide

    by Nicole Rafter ...
    Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders—from the colonial ethnic cleansing the Germans committed against the Herero tribe in Africa, to ... Read more

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  • Rape during Civil War

    by Dara Kay Cohen ...
    Results from the book lay the groundwork for the systematic analysis of an understudied form of civilian abuse. The book will also be useful to policymakers and organizations seeking to understand and to mitigate the horrors of wartime rape.Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • How Statesmen Think

    The Psychology of International Politics

    by Robert Jervis ...
    Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking work. The result is an indispensable book for students and scholars of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD