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William Cobbett: Selected Writings Vol 5: Volume 5: A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland 1824-1826
ISBN: 9781138766037 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical introductions.
William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which ran from 1802-35. Th...
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422,19 zł |
Getting to 67: The Post-Cold War Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification
ISBN: 9781138959286 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All four post-Cold War presidents have attempted to negotiate and ratify at least one major arms control agreement. However, their experiences with arms control treaty ratification have differed greatly from those of their Cold War predecessors. The main theme of this book is that domestic politics have significantly impacted attempts to ratify arms control treaties in the polarized post-Cold War political environment. Each president and each treaty faced varying amounts of support and opposition from the numerous institutions and agents within American foreign policy-making. This book... All four post-Cold War presidents have attempted to negotiate and ratify at least one major arms control agreement. However, their experiences with... |
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188,18 zł |
Culture and Propaganda: The Progressive Origins of American Public Diplomacy, 1936-1953
ISBN: 9781472459022 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the twentieth century governments came to increasingly appreciate the value of soft power to help them achieve their foreign policy ambitions. Covering the crucial period between 1936 and 1953, this book examines the U.S. government s adoption of diplomatic programs that were designed to persuade, inform, and attract global public opinion in support of American national interests. Cultural diplomacy and international information were deeply controversial to an American public that been bombarded with propaganda during the First World War. This book explains how new notions of...
Throughout the twentieth century governments came to increasingly appreciate the value of soft power to help them achieve their foreign policy ambitio...
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661,34 zł |
Us Military Bases, Quasi-Bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America
ISBN: 9781137539267 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has the United States failed to open new military bases in Latin America since the start of the twenty-first century? If not bases, what forms of military presence does the US use for its war against drugs? This book explores domestic opposition to formal US bases in Latin America, and provides evidence of a growing network of informal and secretive base-like arrangements that supports US military operations in the region.
Why has the United States failed to open new military bases in Latin America since the start of the twenty-first century? If not bases, what forms of ...
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428,99 zł |
Negotiating with North Korea: The Six Party Talks and the Nuclear Issue
ISBN: 9781138643369 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. North Korea's nuclear weapons program has provoked much apprehension in the international community in recent years. The Six Party Talks were convened in 2003 to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. They brought together the US, China, Russia, Japan as well as North and South Korea in the effort to negotiate a multilateral resolution of North Korea's nuclear program but the parties had widely different views and approaches. This book will examine the Six Party Talks as a study in multilateral negotiation highlighting the expectations vested in them and their inability to... North Korea's nuclear weapons program has provoked much apprehension in the international community in recent years. The Six Party Talks were conve... |
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264,48 zł |
The Future of Biological Disarmament: Strengthening the Treaty Ban on Weapons
ISBN: 9781138881907 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the politics of biological disarmament, focusing on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) as a treaty regime and the cornerstone of biological disarmament efforts. Biological weapons have long been banned, but the ban needs strengthening. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is the cornerstone of this disarmament regime. After years of deadlock and disappointment its Sixth Review Conference in 2006 generated new hope that biological disarmament could be reinforced from within. This book studies the intricate diplomacy of the Sixth Review Conference as a... This book examines the politics of biological disarmament, focusing on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) as a treaty regime and the cornersto... |
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249,23 zł |
The Drone Debate: A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields
ISBN: 9781442230583 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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481,95 zł |
The Drone Debate: A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields
ISBN: 9781442230590 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Drone Debate offers a thorough investigation of the where, why, how, and when of the U.S.'s use of UAVs. Beginning with a historical overview of the use of drones in warfare, it then addresses whether targeted killing operations are strategically wise, whether they are permissible under international law, and the related ethical issues. It also looks at the political factors behind the use of drones, including domestic and global attitudes toward their use and potential issues of proliferation and escalation. Finally, the use of drones by other countries, such as Israel and China, is...
The Drone Debate offers a thorough investigation of the where, why, how, and when of the U.S.'s use of UAVs. Beginning with a historical overview of t...
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198,14 zł |
From Ankara to Marakesh: Turks and Arabs in a Changing World
ISBN: 9781138194830 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political, economic and social background to the Turkish and Middle Eastern scene is provided in this book, first published in 1964. It describes the problems facing Turkey under military rule, as well as the emerging struggle for power between the communists and nationalists in Cyprus, and the situation in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and North Africa.
The political, economic and social background to the Turkish and Middle Eastern scene is provided in this book, first published in 1964. It describ... |
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712,22 zł |
Indian Power Projection: Ambition, Arms and Influence
ISBN: 9781138654969 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India is growing into one of Asia's most important military powers. Its defence budget has more than doubled in the past decade, and it imports more arms than anyone else in the world. But India is still seen as a land power focused on long, disputed and militarised borders with Pakistan and China rather than the global military force it was in the first half of the twentieth century under British rule. Is this changing? India is acquiring increasing numbers of key platforms - aircraft carriers, amphibious ships, refuelling tankers and transport aircraft - that are extending its reach to... India is growing into one of Asia's most important military powers. Its defence budget has more than doubled in the past decade, and it imports mor... |
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218,70 zł |
Asia's Latent Nuclear Powers: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
ISBN: 9781138930803 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the nuclear weapons club were to further expand, would America's democratic allies in Northeast Asia be among the next entrants? Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all have robust civilian nuclear energy programmes that make them 'virtual nuclear powers' according to many analysts. All three once pursued nuclear weapons and all face growing security threats from nuclear-armed adversaries. But will they - or rather, under what circumstances might they? This book analyses these past nuclear pursuits and current proliferation drivers. In explaining the nuclear technology that the... If the nuclear weapons club were to further expand, would America's democratic allies in Northeast Asia be among the next entrants? Japan, ... |
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86,44 zł |
Armed Conflict Survey 2016
ISBN: 9781857438611 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Armed Conflict Survey is an annual publication from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, publisher of yearly reference work on national defence capabilities The Military Balance and annual review of world affairs Strategic Survey. The book is edited by Nigel Inkster, Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the IISS. The ACS provides yearly data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced people for all major armed conflicts, alongside in-depth analysis of their political, military and humanitarian dimensions. The second... The Armed Conflict Survey is an annual publication from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, publisher of yearly reference wor... |
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1653,36 zł |
Indo-Us Nuclear Deal: Seeking Synergy in Bilateralism
ISBN: 9781138662902 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book interrogates the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement from its inception in July 2005 to its conclusion in the latter part of 2008 through 12 articles, each of which focuses on different aspects of the deal. They discuss the factors that facilitated the deal, the roadblocks that were encountered, and the implications of the deal for the future of India's foreign policy, its energy security and the international non-proliferation regime. Together, they address the internal political dynamics in India and the United States in order to present perspectives of both countries. This book interrogates the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement from its inception in July 2005 to its conclusion in the latter part of 2008 through 12 ... |
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239,05 zł |
Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel's Nuclear Strategy
ISBN: 9781442253254 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclear ambiguity policy (the "bomb in the basement") as they consider such urgent and overlapping survival issues as regional nuclear proliferation, Jihadist terror-group intersections with enemy states, rationality or irrationality of state and sub-state adversaries, assassination or "targeted killing," preemption, and the probable effects of a "Cold War II" between Russia and the United States. Israel must develop a strategic posture that will involve...
Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclear a...
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492,66 zł |
Iran Sanctions
ISBN: 9781511410595 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,08 zł |
Missile Defense Agency Program Update
ISBN: 9781519702425 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,39 zł |
United States Security Assistance 1977-1980: Human Rights Issues Affecting Arms Transfers
ISBN: 9781522911517 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,39 zł |
The Force De Frappe: A United States Viewpoint
ISBN: 9781522913962 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,39 zł |
Carter and Arms Sales: Implementing the Carter Administration's Arms Transfer Restraint Policy
ISBN: 9781349101368 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why did the Carter Administration's conventional arms transfer restraint policy fail? What can be learnt from that failure? Using the theoretical lens of the implementation approach this book examines the origins, context, development and fate of the Administration's conventional arms transfer restraint policy.
Why did the Carter Administration's conventional arms transfer restraint policy fail? What can be learnt from that failure? Using the theoretical lens...
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194,97 zł |
Political Change, Democratic Transitions and Security in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9781138995000 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fragility of democracy in Southeast Asia is a subject of increasing concern. While there has been significant movement in the direction of democratisation, the authoritarian tendencies of popularly elected leaders and the challenges posed by emerging security threats have given rise to a shared concern about the return of military rule in the region. This book examines the nature of political transitions in Southeast Asia and why political transitions towards political liberalisation and democracy have often failed to take off. It considers political systems in Southeast Asia that have... The fragility of democracy in Southeast Asia is a subject of increasing concern. While there has been significant movement in the direction of demo... |
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60,99 zł |