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  • Words of War

    Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict

    by Eric Min ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In Words of War**, Eric Min pulls back the curtain on when, why, and how belligerents negotiate while fighting.**Of all interstate conflicts across the last two centuries, two-thirds have ended through negotiated agreement. Wartime diplomacy is thus commonly seen as a costless and mechanical process solely designed to end fighting. But as Min argues, that wartime negotiations are not just ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • The Logic of Violence in Civil War

    by Stathis N. Kalyvas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Seizing Power

    The Strategic Logic of Military Coups

    by Naunihal Singh ...
    How coups happen and why half of them fail.While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject. Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300 hours of interviews with coup participants and an original dataset of 471 coup attempts worldwide ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Best of Le Monde diplomatique 2012

    Edited by Wendy Kristianasen ...
    Le Monde diplomatique is one of the most highly respected independent periodicals. Published monthly in French and English, it brings together a diverse range of high-calibre writers from across the world.This book collects the paper's highlights from the last year. The articles have been carefully selected and are arranged around the key themes in our changing world including US imperialism, the ... Read more

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  • Economic Interdependence and War

    by Dale C. Copeland ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for vital raw materials and markets. Moving beyond the stale liberal-realist debate, Economic Interdependence and War lays out a dynamic theory of ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Catastrophic Success

    Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong

    by Alexander B. Downes ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In Catastrophic Success**, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries.** Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between intervening states and their targets. As Downes ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Coercion

    The Power to Hurt in International Politics

    Edited by Kelly M. Greenhill, Peter Krause ...
    From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether implicitly or explicitly) upon assumptions and precepts formulated in-and predicated upon-politics in ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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  • Dying by the Sword

    The Militarization of US Foreign Policy

    by Monica Duffy Toft, Sidita Kushi ...
    Dying by the Sword explores the US's evolving foreign policies from the Founding era to the present in order to ring the alarm on the US's increasing reliance on "kinetic" global diplomacy. Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi find that since the end of the Cold War and especially after 9/11, the US has initiated higher rates of military interventions, drastically escalating its usage of force ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • NATO No Longer Fits The Bill

    We Need a More European Alliance

    by Theo Sommer ...
    Translated by Alfred Clayton ...
    NATO is not particularly good when it comes to countering new threats. The most successful alliance in military history has not as yet managed to develop a strategy designed to deal with the battle for resources, asymmetrical conflicts, cyber warfare and the security policy consequences of climate change. NATO found it difficult to come to terms with the disappearance of enemy stereotypes at the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unfinished Business

    Why International Negotiations Fail

    by Alexander Marschik, Andrew Kydd, Anthony Wanis-St. John, Brook Boyer, Catherine Tinsley, Cecilia Albin, Christer Jönsson, Daniella Fridl, Franz Cede, I. William Zartman, Jez Littlewood, Karin Aggestam, Laurent Mermet, Masako Taylor, Moty Cristal, P. Hopmann, Raymond Saner, Christophe Dupont, Deborah Goodwin, Wendi L. Adair ...
    Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from successful negotiations with mediocre outcomes. Failure in this study pertains to a set of ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Why Leaders Fight

    by Michael C. Horowitz, Allan C. Stam, Cali M. Ellis ...
    The history of political events is made by people. From wars to elections to political protests, the choices we make, our actions, how we behave, dictate events. Not all individuals have the same impact on our world and our lives. Some peoples' choices alter the pathways that history takes. In particular, national chief executives play a large role in forging the destinies of the countries they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Military Strategy in the 21st Century

    The Challenge for NATO

    Edited by Janne Haaland Matlary, Robert Johnson ...
    What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards, does military strategy have any relevance? This is the first volume to examine current military risks and threats for NATO from a military strategy vantage point. Which strategies are needed? Is ways- ... Read more

    $24.69 USD