"Hope Is Not a Plan" takes the reader inside the war in Iraq courtesy of participant-observers brought there to diagnose the insurgency and develop a get-well plan. Focusing on the critical months of late 2004 and early 2005, it looks at a slice of the war not previously examined. This is not the Beltway story, nor the grunt and jarhead story. Rather, the book looks at the process of taking political and military goals and turning them into action. In telling that story, "Hope Is Not a Plan" helps explain how Iraq got to where it is today. The book compares the reality of what happen in...
"Hope Is Not a Plan" takes the reader inside the war in Iraq courtesy of participant-observers brought there to diagnose the insurgency and develop...
Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? To answer that question, Allies at Odds thoroughly examines recent international efforts in arms control, environmental protection, human rights, and military cooperation. Evidence from twenty separate cases supports the expectations of the realist approach to international politics, which focuses on the role of power above all. Neither cultural factors nor international institutions have as much influence as some expect. This finding was as true during...
Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? To answer ...
Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? To answer that question, Allies at Odds? thoroughly examines recent international efforts in arms control, environmental protection, human rights, and military cooperation. Evidence from 20 separate cases supports the expectations of the realist approach to international politics, which focuses on the role of power above all. Neither cultural factors nor international institutions have as much influence as some expect. This finding was as true during the...
Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? To answer ...
This is the first book-length treatment of international politics in a unipolar world that adopts a structural realist perspective. It applies Waltz's microeconomic analogy to a market with a price leader. It concludes that unipolarity is sustainable as long as the unipole distributes rewards to other states.
This is the first book-length treatment of international politics in a unipolar world that adopts a structural realist perspective. It applies Waltz's...
This is the first book-length treatment of international politics in a unipolar world that adopts a structural realist perspective. It applies Waltz's microeconomic analogy to a market with a price leader. It concludes that unipolarity is sustainable as long as the unipole distributes rewards to other states.
This is the first book-length treatment of international politics in a unipolar world that adopts a structural realist perspective. It applies Waltz's...
