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  • The Security Implications of the New Taiwan

    by Bernice Lee ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    How can fresh conflict between China and Taiwan be avoided? This paper argues that unless the key players - Taiwan, China and the US - accept the existence of a new and increasingly democratic Taiwan, the conflict across the Taiwan Straits will remain one of the most contentious and dangerous in East Asia. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Counterspace

    The Next Hours of World War III

    by William B. Scott, Michael J. Coumatos, William J. Birnes ...
    "Takes us to the front lines of the space- and cyber-security world. A must-read to preview how our national-security future will unfold!" —Gen. Richard B. Myers (USAF-Ret.), former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of StaffIn Space Wars, Scott, Coumatos, and Birnes created a fascinating war gaming scenario of how World War III might unfold above the Earth's surface. Now this thrilling team of writers ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Almighty

    Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age

    by Dan Zak ...
    ****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure sites in the world, a bastion of warhead parts and hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium—enough to power thousands ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Peddling Peril

    How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemie

    by David Albright ...
    **“THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE ATOM HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING SAVE OUR MODES OF THINKING, AND WE THUS DRIFT TOWARD UNPARALLELED CATASTROPHE.” —ALBERT EINSTEINW**ith the revelation of Iran’s secret uranium enrichment facilities, North Korea’s brazen testing of missiles and nuclear weapons, and nuclear-endowed Pakistan’s descent into instability, the urgency of the nuclear proliferation problem has ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A High Price

    The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism

    by Daniel Byman ...
    The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's founding in 1948, Daniel Byman charts the rise of Yasir Arafat's Fatah and leftist groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Rise of Nuclear Iran

    How Tehran Defies the West

    by Dore Gold ...
    In the West, liberal politicians and pundits are calling for renewed diplomatic engagement with Iran, convinced that Tehran will respond to reason and halt its nuclear weapons program. Yet countries have repeatedly tried diplomatic tactics, all of which have utterly failed. In The Rise of Nuclear Iran, Gold examines these past failures and shows how Iran employed strategic deception and delay ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Contracting out to Private Military and Security Companies

    by Nikolaos Tzifakis ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The global trend for contracting out the supply of military and security services is growing. Security is being transformed from a service for the public or common good into a privately provided service. This paper argues that the implications of outsourcing security services to private agencies are neither a positive nor negative phenomenon. However, proper regulation of private military and ... Read more

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  • Sleepwalking to Armageddon

    The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation

    Edited by Helen Caldicott ...
    A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world's leading antinuclear activistWith the world's attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, ... Read more

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  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
    Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the ... Read more

    $16.19 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

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  • Conflict and Peace Building in Divided Societies

    Responses to Ethnic Violence

    by Anthony Oberschall ...
    This groundbreaking book provides an integrated account of ethnic, nationality and sectarian conflicts in the contemporary world including the role of collective myths, the mass media and the ethnification of identities as contributors to ethnic conflicts and wars. In addition to many examples from the last two decades, Oberschall provides a comprehensive overview of the conflict and peace ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Bomb

    Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century

    by Marc-Michael Blum ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The question of what Europe’s nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia, the United States and NATO. The paper identifies possible scenarios where the deployment of ... Read more

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