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  • Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats

    Edited by James J. Wirtz, Peter R. Lavoy ...
    In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to seek their own nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles. This likely would produce ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • South Asia in World Politics

    by Devin T. Hagerty, Craig Baxter, Jonah Blank, Maya Chadda, Herbert G. Hagerty, Timothy D. Hoyt, Gaurav Kampani, Peter R. Lavoy, Swarna Rajagopalan, Anupam Srivastava, David Taylor, Robert G. Wirsing ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    South Asia in World Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to the politics and international relations of South Asia, a key area encompassing the states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. While U.S. interest has long been sporadic and reactive, 9/11 alerted Washington that paying only fitful attention to one of the world's most volatile ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Terrorism, War, or Disease?

    Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons

    Edited by Anne Clunan, Peter R. Lavoy, Susan B. Martin ...
    The use of biological warfare (BW) agents by states or terrorists is one of the world's most frightening security threats but, thus far, little attention has been devoted to understanding how to improve policies and procedures to identify and attribute BW events. Terrorism, War, or Disease? is the first book to examine the complex political, military, legal, and scientific challenges involved in ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats

    Edited by James J. Wirtz, Peter R. Lavoy ...
    In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to seek their own nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles. This likely would produce ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia

    The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict

    Edited by Peter R. Lavoy ...
    The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargil was a landmark event not because of its duration or casualties, but because it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the Kargil conflict, academic and policy debates over nuclear deterrence ... Read more

    $130.39 USD

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  • The Interrogator

    An Education

    by Glenn L. Carle ...
    To his friends and neighbors, Glenn L. Carle was a wholesome, stereotypical New England Yankee, a former athlete struggling against incipient middle age, someone always with his nose in an abstruse book. But for two decades Carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis about nearly everything. "I was almost never who I said I was, or did what I claimed to be doing." He was a CIA spy. He ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Experience Angkor Wat (Illustrated)

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Explore Angkor Wat - Includes dozens of images of its architecture, reliefs, and more!*Includes an introduction to the history of the Khmer and the Sanskrit epics which inspired Angkor WatHinduism is one of the worlds great religions, dominating the Indian subcontinent for most of the last millennium, and its largest temple is an unbelievably magnificent structure located in Angkor, Cambodia ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Chechen Jihad

    Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror

    by Yossef Bodansky ...

    $7.99 USD

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  • Never Forget National Humiliation

    Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations

    by Zheng Wang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s? And why has China been more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy but ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Enemies Within

    Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America

    by Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman ...
    Two Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists take an unbridled look into one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations—a breathtaking race to stop a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil.In Enemies Within, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman “reveal how New York really works” (James Risen, author of State of War) and lay bare the complex and often contradictory state of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Daodejing

    by Laozi ...
    Translated by Edmund Ryden ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.' The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. The dominant ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Operation Shakespeare

    The True Story of an Elite International Sting

    by John Shiffman ...
    A secret war. A daring sting operation. The great untold national security story of our time: “An impressive and important work…The book has the glamour of a spy novel and the gravity of a meticulously researched exposé” (Christian Science Monitor).On today’s high-tech battlefields, the most lethal weapons are not the big ones, but rather the ones that are small enough to be smuggled inside a pack ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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