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Citizens And Soldiers - The Dilemmas Of Military Service

by Eliot A. Cohen

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 Why has the United States, unlike every other 20th-century world power, failed to settle on a durable system of military service? In this lucid book, Eliot Cohen studies the enduring problems of America's methods of raising an army.
Trade In War - Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines

by Mariya Grinberg

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 An urgent, insightful study of a puzzling wartime phenomenon: states doing business with their enemies. Grinberg's findings reveal that economic cooperation can thrive even in the most hostile of timesâ€"and that interstate conflict might not be as easily deterred by high levels of economic interdependence as is commonly believed.
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Words Of War - Negotiation As A Tool Of Conflict

by Eric Min

~~218,63€~~ 196,77€ 10% OFF

 In Words of War, Eric Min pulls back the curtain on when, why, and how belligerents negotiate while fighting. By revealing that diplomacy can sometimes be counterproductive to peace, Words of War compels us to rethink the assumption that it ""cannot hurt"" to promote diplomacy during war.
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Strong Commanders, Weak States - How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration After Civil War

by Philip A. Martin

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 In Strong Commanders, Weak States, Philip A. Martin investigates a fundamental political challenge faced by post-conflict states: how to create obedient national militaries from the remnants of insurgent forces. When civil wars end, non-state armed groups often integrate into post-conflict militaries. Yet rebel-military integration does not always happen smoothly. In some cases, former rebels cooperate with new leaders, forming powerful national armies that underpin postwar stability. In others, they resist the authority of new leaders, maintaining clandestine armed networks that disrupt centralized state-building. Martin argues that how field commanders of non-state armed groups governed during the war explains this variation. Rebel commanders who build accountable governance systems gain strong social support from rebel-ruled communities, becoming locally embedded. Thanks to these community ties, which persist after the war, these embedded commanders have the leverage to push the central government for concessions, resist directives to disarm fighters, or even orchestrate coup d''états. Conversely, rebel commanders who governed coercively are less likely to sustain community ties. Without the ability to mobilize collective action after the war, these non-embedded commanders have stronger incentives to cooperate with new regime leaders. Wielding in-depth evidence from Côte d''Ivoire and cases of rebel-military integration elsewhere, Martin shows that good governance during wartime can—ironically—lead to poor postwar state consolidation. Rather than preparing insurgents to be successful state builders, effective rebel governance can hinder post-conflict state-building. As costly peace operations come under increasing scrutiny, Strong Commanders, Weak States offers fresh guidance on how transitions to peace can better succeed.
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Words Of War - Negotiation As A Tool Of Conflict

by Eric Min

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 In Words of War, Eric Min pulls back the curtain on when, why, and how belligerents negotiate while fighting. By revealing that diplomacy can sometimes be counterproductive to peace, Words of War compels us to rethink the assumption that it ""cannot hurt"" to promote diplomacy during war.
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Commander-In-Chief Test - Public Opinion And The Politics Of Image-Making In Us Foreign Policy

by Jeffrey A. Friedman

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 Friedman offers a fresh explanation for why Americans are often frustrated by the cost and scope of US foreign policyâ€"and how we can fix that for the future. Combining polling data with original archival research on cases from the Vietnam War, Friedman demonstrates that public opinion plays a surprisingly extensive role in shaping US international behavior.
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Burden-Sharing Dilemma - Coercive Diplomacy In Us Alliance Politics

by Brian D. Blankenship

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 Examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for their own defense. Blankenship argues this is because the United States tries to conserve its own resources whilst also preserving influence in its alliances. Blankenship's findings dismantle assumptions that burden-sharing is always desirable but difficult to obtain.
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Strangers In The Family - Gender, Patriliny, And The Chinese In Colonial Indonesia

by Guo-Quan Seng

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 Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816â€"1942). At the heart of this story lies the creolization of patrilineal Confucian marital and familial norms to the colonial legal, moral and sexual conditions of urban Java.
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The Burden-Sharing Dilemma - Coercive Diplomacy In Us Alliance Politics

by Brian D. Blankenship

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 Examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for their own defense. Blankenship argues this is because the United States tries to conserve its own resources whilst also preserving influence in its alliances. Blankenship's findings dismantle assumptions that burden-sharing is always desirable but difficult to obtain.
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Great Power Politics And The Struggle Over Austria, 1945â€“1955

by Audrey Kurth Cronin

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 In this account of an unusual episode in the Cold War, Audrey Kurth Cronin examines the negotiations over Austria and the Soviet Union's sudden and surprising decision to withdraw its troops and accept the country as a neutral Western state, after having rejected any settlement for eight years.
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Lost Peace - Great Power Politics And The Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967-1979

by Galen Jackson

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 In A Lost Peace, Galen Jackson rewrites an important chapter in the history of the middle period of the Cold War, changing how we think about the Arab-Israeli conflict. By leveraging the remarkable evidence now available to scholars, Jackson reveals that the United States and the Soviet Union may have missed an opportunity for Middle East peace during the 1970s.
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A Lost Peace - Great Power Politics And The Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967â€“1979

by Galen Jackson

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 In A Lost Peace, Galen Jackson rewrites an important chapter in the history of the middle period of the Cold War, changing how we think about the Arab-Israeli conflict. By leveraging the remarkable evidence now available to scholars, Jackson reveals that the United States and the Soviet Union may have missed an opportunity for Middle East peace during the 1970s.
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The Fragile Balance Of Terror - Deterrence In The New Nuclear Age

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 In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the worldâ€"a volatile mix of variables.
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Not Of Woman Born - Representations Of Caesarean Birth In Medieval And Renaissance Culture

by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

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 Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical writing, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski addresses the web of religious, ethical, and cultural questions concerning abdominal delivery in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance...
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The Racial Politics Of Division - Interethnic Struggles For Legitimacy In Multicultural Miami

by Monika Gosin

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 The Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in local Miami media between African Americans, "white" Cubans, and "black" Cubans during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero Crisis. Monika Gosin challenges exclusionary arguments pitting these groups against one another and depicts instead the...
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Revolution And War

by Stephen M. Walt

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 Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so.
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The Costs Of Conversation - Obstacles To Peace Talks In Wartime

by Oriana Skylar Mastro Consulting Llc

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 After a war breaks out, what factors influence the warring parties' decisions about whether to talk to their enemy, and when may their position on wartime diplomacy change? How do we get from only fighting to also talking?In The Costs of Conversation, Oriana Skylar Mastro argues that states are primarily concerned with the strategic costs of...
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The Purpose Of Intervention - Changing Beliefs About The Use Of Force

by Martha Finnemore

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 Finnemore examines changes over the past 400 years about why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened.
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The Ethics Of Destruction - Norms And Force In International Relations

by Ward Thomas

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 Many assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Civil War general William Sherman said war "is all hell." The implication behind the maxim is that in war, as in hell, there is no order, only chaos; no mercy, only...
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Planning The Unthinkable - How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical Weapons

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 The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, and James J. Wirtz compare how military threats, strategic cultures, and...
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Alliance Politics

by Glenn H. Snyder

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 Glenn H. Snyder creates a theory of alliances by deductive reasoning about the international system, by integrating ideas from neorealism, coalition formation, bargaining, and game theory, and by empirical generalization from international history...
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Liberal Peace, Liberal War - American Politics And International Security

by John M. Owen

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 Liberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen IV attributes this peculiar restraint to a synergy between liberal ideology and the institutions that...
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Anatomy Of Mistrust - U.S.-Soviet Relations During The Cold War

by Deborah Welch Larson

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 Synthesizing different understandings of trust and mistrust from the theoretical traditions of economics, psychology, and game theory, Larson analyzes five cases that might have been turning points in U.S.-Soviet relations.
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Revolution And War

by Stephen M. Walt

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 Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so.
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