The Burden-Sharing Dilemma

Brian D Blankenship

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• The Burden-Sharing Dilemma examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibil... Lees meer

Unclear Physics

Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Many authoritarian leaders want nuclear weapons, but few manage to acquire them. Autocrats seeking nuclear weapons fail in different ways and to varyi... Lees meer

Waging War, Planning Peace

Aaron Rapport

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict stab... Lees meer

Calculating Credibility

Daryl G Press

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Calculating Credibility examines--and ultimately rejects--a fundamental belief held by laypeople and the makers of American foreign policy: the notion... Lees meer

Military Organizations, Complex Machines

Chris C Demchak

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Chris Demchak explores the reasons why military machines surprise their users and how they can change both the complexity and effectiveness of tactica... Lees meer

Transformation of American Air Power

Benjamin S Lambeth

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Since the unprecedentedly effective performance of the allied air campaign against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, the role of American air power ... Lees meer

Pivotal Deterrence

Timothy W Crawford

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• As the preponderant world power, the United States is a potential arbiter of war and peace between such feuding rivals as India and Pakistan, Turkey a... Lees meer

Nuclear Statecraft

Francis J Gavin

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging fro... Lees meer

Why Intelligence Fails

Robert Jervis

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is l... Lees meer

Super Bomb

Ken Young, Warner R Schilling

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super," or hydrogen, bomb. That fatef... Lees meer

The Power to Divide

Timothy W Crawford

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from all... Lees meer

Causes of War

Stephen Van Evera

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of inters... Lees meer

Warlords

Kimberly Marten

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marten s... Lees meer

Occupational Hazards

David M Edelstein

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. In Occupational Hazards , ... Lees meer

Dangerous Sanctuaries

Sarah Kenyon Lischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil w... Lees meer

Costs of Conversation

Oriana Skylar Mastro Consulting LLC

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• 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 war... Lees meer

Sorry States

Jennifer Lind

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are nec... Lees meer

Uncovering Ways of War

Thomas G Mahnken

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Intelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This task is hindered by their limited ability to warn of pe... Lees meer

Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in... Lees meer

Elusive Balance

William Curti Wohlforth

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Concentrating on the period between 1945 and 1989, The Elusive Balance reevaluates Soviet and U.S. perceptions of the balance of power. William Curti ... Lees meer

Nuclear Statecraft

Francis J Gavin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging fro... Lees meer

Myths of Empire

Jack L Snyder

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue agg... Lees meer

When Right Makes Might

Stacie E Goddard

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers but contain and confront others, even at the risk of war? When Right Makes Might proposes... Lees meer

The Undermining the Kremlin

Dale C Copeland

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• One of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war--especially massive, system-threatening war. Much military histor... Lees meer