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“paul bracken”

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  • Fire In the East

    The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age

    by Paul Bracken ...

    $7.99 USD

  • Reforging European Security

    From Confrontation To Cooperation

    by Kurt Gottfried, Paul Bracken ...
    This book provides some answers to the questions of how to pursue the build-down of the East-West military confrontation in Europe and of how to build up an enduring and effective security system for Europe. It is the result of a three year study of European security affairs. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Second Nuclear Age

    Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

    by Paul Bracken ...
    "The questions [raised] about the sustainability of current American foreign policy thinking are particularly timely." — Wall Street JournalThe cold war ended decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • 7 Deadly Scenarios

    A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century

    by Andrew Krepinevich ...
    A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border. Major American cities are leveled by black-market nukes. China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown. Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons. What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How will we respond? Are we prepared?These are the questions that Andrew F. Krepinevich asks—and answers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws

    America's Search for a New Foreign Policy

    by Michael Klare ...
    In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third World powers-Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, especially-became the centerpiece of American ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Weapons and Strategy

    US Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century

    by Stephen J. Cimbala ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence.This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush administration, having deposed the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, now points to a new nuclear "Axis of Evil ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Global Security in the Twenty-First Century

    The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace

    by Sean Kay ...
    This thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas throughout the world. Sean Kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the Middle East, Asia, and ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy

    by Todd S. Sechser, Matthew Fuhrmann ...
    Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence - using nuclear threats to prevent attacks against the nation's territory and interests. But an often overlooked question is whether nuclear threats can also coerce adversaries to relinquish possessions or change their behavior. Can nuclear weapons be used to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons

    by T.V. Paul ...
    Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view that use would have a catastrophic impact on humankind, the environment, and the reputation of the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age

    Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon

    by Toshi Yoshihara, James R. Holmes, Joshua Rovner, Helen E. Purkitt, Stephen F. Burgess, Christopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, Michael S. Chase, Terence Roehrig0, James L. Schoff1, Anupam Srivastava2, Seema Gahlaut3, Andrew C. Winner4, Timothy D. Hoyt5, Scott A. Jones6 ...
    A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more states to cross the nuclear-weapons threshold from Iran to Japan ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Return of Marco Polo's World

    War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy“[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d’horizon.”—The Wall Street JournalIn the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Twilight of the Bombs

    Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post–Cold War age.The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers—Russia, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook