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Countering Terrorism
ISBN: 9780815727644 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can We Construct a Grand Strategy to Counter Terrorism? Fifteen years after September 11, the United States still faces terror threats--both domestic and foreign. After years of wars, ever more intensive and pervasive surveillance, enhanced security measures at major transportation centers, and many attempts to explain who we are fighting and why and how to fight them, the threats continue to multiply. So, too, do our attempts to understand just what terrorism is and how to counter it. Two leaders in the field of terrorism studies, Martha Crenshaw and Gary LaFree, provide a...
Can We Construct a Grand Strategy to Counter Terrorism? Fifteen years after September 11, the United States still faces terror threats--bot...
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159,55 |
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Choosing War: Presidential Decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay Incidents
ISBN: 9780190268688 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout US history, presidents have had vastly different reactions to naval incidents. Though some incidents have been resolved diplomatically, others have escalated to outright war. What factors influence the outcome of a naval incident, especially when calls for retribution mingle with recommendations for restraint? Given the rise of long range anti-ship and anti-air missile systems, coupled with tensions in East Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the Black and Baltic Seas, the question is more relevant than ever for US naval diplomacy. In Choosing War, Douglas Carl Peifer compares...
Throughout US history, presidents have had vastly different reactions to naval incidents. Though some incidents have been resolved diplomatically, oth...
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188,45 |
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The Regional Security Puzzle Around Afghanistan: Bordering Practices in Central Asia and Beyond
ISBN: 9783847407898 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states' ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down.
Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book exam...
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246,49 |
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Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Stockholm Jointly by the International Economic Association and the Stockhol
ISBN: 9781349189007 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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944,95 |
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Soviet Power: The Continuing Challenge
ISBN: 9781349120772 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representing the culmination of an RUSI main theme study, "Soviet Power and Prospects," this volume is based on the Institute's proposition that military power exerts a profound influence on the course of world politics and that such power cannot be divorced from its social and political context.
Representing the culmination of an RUSI main theme study, "Soviet Power and Prospects," this volume is based on the Institute's proposition that milit...
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191,38 |
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The Soviet Military: Political Education, Training and Morale
ISBN: 9781349077564 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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183,25 |
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The Future of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
ISBN: 9781349237265 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1995 a Conference is to be convened to review and extend the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The Future of the NPT brings together a distinguished group of individuals, including the elected President of the 1995 NPT Conference, to analyse four crucial agenda areas relevant to the Conference: the preConference activities to be undertaken by both States Parties and the Conference Secretariat; those security issues that relate to a review of the treaty, such as nuclear disarmament and security assurances; peaceful uses and verification questions; and regional issues....
In 1995 a Conference is to be convened to review and extend the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The Future of the NPT brings ...
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407,25 |
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Congress and Us Military Aid to Britain: Interdependence and Dependence, 1949-56
ISBN: 9781349239214 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines the Anglo-American relationship in the early postwar period through a case study of the American military assistance programme launched in 1949. It analyses the degree and changing nature of interdependence between the two states under this programme from 1949 to 1956. It focuses in particular on the tensions in US policy between Congress and the Administration, the differing conceptions of the Anglo-American relationship held by the two institutions and the problems this posed for Britain.
The book examines the Anglo-American relationship in the early postwar period through a case study of the American military assistance programme launc...
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203,61 |
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From Alliance to Union: Challenges Facing Gulf Cooperation Council States in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781845198022 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies--Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Sa'udi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--joined forces on 25 May 1981 within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), few fathomed that security requirements on and around the Arabian Peninsula would be so precarious and for so long. Several of the monarchies even hoped that coordination on foreign policy issues over which near unanimity existed could, eventually, lead to a full-fledged union as envisaged in the organization's founding charter. In this new study, Joseph A. Kechichian provides an evaluation of GCC...
After the conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies--Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Sa'udi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--joined forces on 25 May 1...
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551,25 |
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From Alliance to Union: Challenges Facing Gulf Cooperation Council States in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781845198039 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies--Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Sa'udi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--joined forces on 25 May 1981 within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), few fathomed that security requirements on and around the Arabian Peninsula would be so precarious and for so long. Several of the monarchies even hoped that coordination on foreign policy issues over which near unanimity existed could, eventually, lead to a full-fledged union as envisaged in the organization's founding charter. In this new study, Joseph A. Kechichian provides an evaluation of GCC...
After the conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies--Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Sa'udi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--joined forces on 25 May 1...
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236,25 |
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Nato's Conventional Defences: Options for the Central Region
ISBN: 9780333463680 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A review of the full range of recent official and non-official schemes for improving NATO's conventional posture, from exploitation of emerging technologies to non-provocative defences, in the light of prevailing military, political, economic and demographic trends.
A review of the full range of recent official and non-official schemes for improving NATO's conventional posture, from exploitation of emerging techno...
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203,61 |
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The Soviet Biochemical Threat to NATO
ISBN: 9780333455869 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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191,38 |
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The Nuclear Revolution and the End of the Cold War: Forced Restraint
ISBN: 9780333580110 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book studies the impact of the nuclear revolution on the course of the rivalry between the former USSR and the USA. It explains why it has been so different from great power rivalry in prenuclear times, in avoiding war and leading first to a co-operative relationship and then ending peacefully. The book analyses four aspects of the nuclear revolution: reciprocal restraint, security co-operation, the deadlock of nuclear strategy (including strategic defence) and common deterrence.
This book studies the impact of the nuclear revolution on the course of the rivalry between the former USSR and the USA. It explains why it has been s...
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407,25 |
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America's Security in the 1980s
ISBN: 9781349065455 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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183,25 |
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Military Power in Europe: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Alford
ISBN: 9781349103126 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays illuminate different aspects of military power and European security. It deals with the practicalities of planning and command within an alliance structure or the problems connected and with distinguishing between offensive and defensive operations for purposes of arms control.
These essays illuminate different aspects of military power and European security. It deals with the practicalities of planning and command within an ...
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203,61 |
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A Handbook of Verification Procedures
ISBN: 9781349110438 / Angielski / Miękka / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of how, in practice, the effective verification of various arms control treaties - including a comprehensive test ban treaty, conventional forces reductions, a fissile material cut-off and a freeze on the development and production of nuclear weapons - can be achieved.
An examination of how, in practice, the effective verification of various arms control treaties - including a comprehensive test ban treaty, conventio...
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203,61 |
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Electronic Combat and Modern Warfare: The Quick and the Dead
ISBN: 9781349124244 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern weaponry and warfare have entered a new era where death and destruction are produced electronically and with appalling speed and accuracy. This book shows for the first time how electronic combat and the battle for intelligence are changing every aspect of the battlefield of the future - from nuclear warfare to espionage. It is the first of its kind to show how the new technology and tactics are used, and how they shape strategy and peacetime planning.
Modern weaponry and warfare have entered a new era where death and destruction are produced electronically and with appalling speed and accuracy. This...
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610,90 |
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Power Shift: On the New Global Order
ISBN: 9781783607945 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Power Shift, Richard Falk, a UN expert on international law, puts forth a challenging set of observations on the changes in global politics that have occurred since the end of the Cold War, with a close focus on the massive transformations in relations with the Middle East after the 9/11 attacks. Falk argues that American militarism during the past twenty years has significantly reframed geopolitics, and he provides a scathing critique of many common practices and policies, including the recourse to torture, preventive war, drone technology, and diplomacy by threat.
In this... In Power Shift, Richard Falk, a UN expert on international law, puts forth a challenging set of observations on the changes in global politics ...
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448,88 |
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Crude Strategy: Rethinking the US Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil
ISBN: 9781626163348 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should the United States ask its military to guarantee the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf? If the US security commitment is in fact strategically sound, what posture should the military adopt to protect Persian Gulf oil? Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic present a collection of new essays from a multidisciplinary team of political scientists, historians, and economists that provide answers to these questions. Contributors delve into a range of vital economic and security issues: the economic costs of a petroleum supply disruption, whether or not an American withdrawal... Should the United States ask its military to guarantee the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf? If the US security commitment is in fact strategicall... |
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467,25 |
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Predator Empire: Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance
ISBN: 9780816694747 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean for human beings to exist in an era of dronified state violence? How can we understand the rise of robotic systems of power and domination? Focusing on U.S. drone warfare and its broader implications as no other book has to date, "Predator Empire" argues that we are witnessing a transition from a labor-intensive American empire to a machine-intensive Predator Empire. Moving from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror and beyond, Ian G. R. Shaw reveals how changes in military strategy, domestic policing, and state surveillance have come together to enclose our planet in a... What does it mean for human beings to exist in an era of dronified state violence? How can we understand the rise of robotic systems of power and d... |
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104,69 |
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