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Inadvertent Escalation - Conventional War And Nuclear Risks

by Barry R. Posen

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 This sobering book demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation.
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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

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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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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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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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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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Communities Of Saint Martin - Legend And Ritual In Medieval Tours

by Sharon Farmer

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 Sharon Farmer here investigates the ways in which three medieval communitiesâ€"the town of Tours, the basilica of Saint-Martin there, and the abbey of Marmoutier nearbyâ€"all defined themselves through the cult of Saint Martin...
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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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Bombing To Win - Air Power And Coercion In War

by Robert A. Pape

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 In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.
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Myths Of Empire - Domestic Politics And International Ambition

by Jack L. Snyder

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 Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.
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Isle Of The Saints - Monastic Settlement And Christian Community In Early Ireland

by Lisa M. Bitel

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 Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own...
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Living Weapons - Biological Warfare And International Security

by Gregory D. Koblentz

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 Gregory D. Koblentz provides a comprehensive analysis of the unique challenges that biological weapons pose for international security.
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The Origins Of Alliances

by Stephen M. Walt

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 How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In...
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The Ideology Of The Offensive - Military Decision Making And The Disasters Of 1914

by Jack L. Snyder

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 Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War demonstrates that it is not only rational analysis that determines strategic doctrine, but also the attitudes of military planners.
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Emotional Communities In The Early Middle Ages

by Barbara H. Rosenwein

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 This highly original book is both a study of emotional discourse in the Early Middle Ages and a contribution to the debates among historians and social scientists about the nature of human emotions.
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Conventional Deterrence

by John J. Mearsheimer

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 Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed.
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Divided Allies - Strategic Cooperation Against The Communist Threat In The Asia-Pacific During The Early Cold War

by David James Gill e Thomas K. Robb

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 By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history. At its heart, Divided Allies examines why strategic cooperation among these closely allied Western...
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Advancing Equity Planning Now

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 What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fairness...
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Living With Animals - Bonds Across Species

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 Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guidesâ€"a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs, in farms, in zoos, and in African forests, among other places. Modeled after the classic A...
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