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  • Security Strategies and American World Order

    Lost Power

    by Birthe Hansen, Peter Toft, Anders Wivel ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book analyses security strategies in the American world order, systematically comparing Russian, Middle Eastern and European policies.The main finding is that the loss of relative power has decisive importance for the security strategies of states, but that particular strategies can only be explained when relative power is combined with ideology and the probability of military conflict. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jennifer Welsh ...
    Series Book 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A World in Disarray

    American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

    by Richard Haass ...
    **“A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions—not to mention the president and his advisers—could benefit from reading.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAn examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the president of the Council on Foreign Relations**Things fall ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • International Security

    The Contemporary Agenda

    by Roland Dannreuther ...
    International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary examples, from the Iraq war to the rise of China, it is an essential guide for students and policy makers seeking to understand the theoretical and empirical debates over the fast-changing nature of international security today.The ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Regions and Powers

    The Structure of International Security

    by Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver ...
    Series Book 91 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Military Control in Pakistan

    The Parallel State

    by Mazhar Aziz ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of political instability in this geographically important nuclear state.It rejects views that ethnic and religious cleavages and perceived economic or political mismanagement by civilian governments triggers military intervention in Pakistan. The study argues ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

    Edited by Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff ...
    A definitive global survey of the interaction of ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends rigorous theoretically grounded analysis with empirically rich illustrations to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international security challenges today. Fully updated for the second edition, the book includes a new section which ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Providing for National Security

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Andrew M. Dorman, Joyce P. Kaufman ...
    Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In this timely volume experts from both the academic and policy worlds present 13 different country case studies drawn from across the globe—including established and newer states, large and smaller ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War

    Winning domestic support for the Afghan War

    Edited by Beatrice De Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies.In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, strategic narratives provide a grid for interpreting the why, what and how of the conflict. This book ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Human Security

    by Mary Kaldor ...
    There is a real security gap in the world today. Millions of people in regions like the Middle East or East and Central Africa or Central Asia where new wars are taking place live in daily fear of violence. Moreover new wars are increasingly intertwined with other global risks the spread of disease, vulnerability to natural disasters, poverty and homelessness. Yet our security conceptions, drawn ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Understanding Central Asia

    Politics and Contested Transformations

    by Sally N. Cummings ...
    Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political, economic, and security challenges. Focusing on these five republics, this textbook analyzes the contending understandings of the politics of the past, present and future transformations of Central Asia, including its place in international security ... Read more

    $77.99 USD