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  • The Political Army

    How the U.S. Military Learned to Manage the Media and Public Opinion

    by Thomas Crosbie ...
    Winner, 2026 Giueseppe Caforio ERGOMAS Award for Best Book, European Research Group on Military and SocietyWinner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSince World War II, the U.S. military has taken a keen interest in shaping press coverage and, through it, public perception and democratic oversight of the armed forces. After misjudging the domestic political landscape during the Vietnam War, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Military Politics

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Thomas Crosbie ...
    Series Book 1 - Military Politics
    Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. It introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations. As the first volume in Berghahn ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture

    Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior

    Edited by Brad West, Thomas Crosbie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture. Moving beyond binary understandings that inform the militarization of culture thesis and examining various national and cultural contexts, the collection outlines ways in which a process of paramilitarization is ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Privatized Security

    Edited by Ori Swed, Thomas Crosbie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The first book dedicated to the sociology of privatized security, this collection studies the important global trend of shifting security from public to private hands and the associated rise of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and their contractors. The volume first explores the trend itself, making important historical and theoretical revisions to the existing social science of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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    by Harry G. Summers ...
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  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Read more

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  • Military Strategy

    by John M. Collins ...
    John M. Collins has distilled the wisdom of historys great military minds to tutor readers on the necessary intellectual skills to win not only battles but also wars. He illuminates practices that worked well or poorly in the past, together with reasons why. He discusses national security interests, strategic building blocks, military strategies across the conflict spectrum, methods for developing ... Read more

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  • Peaceland

    Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

    by Séverine Autesserre ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. ... Read more

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  • Napalm

    An American Biography

    by Robert M. Neer ...
    Napalm was invented on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. It created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki—and went on to incinerate 64 Japanese cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. Robert Neer offers the first history. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Think Tanks in America

    by Thomas Medvetz ...
    A revealing look at the rise of these influential institutions, and the effect they've had on the United States.Think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of research do they ... Read more

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  • Women and Wars

    Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

    Edited by Carol Cohn ...
    Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Those Who Have Borne the Battle

    A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them

    by James Wright ...
    At the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers" -- those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill at Charlestown to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, and beyond, without expectation of recognition or recompense. Americans like to think that the service of its citizen volunteers is, and always has been, of momentous importance in our politics and society. But ... Read more

    $11.99 USD