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The European Union in Global Security: The Politics of Impact
ISBN: 9781137465009 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does the EU matter in international security? The authors identify and explain the drivers of and brakes to EU foreign security action, offer methods of assessment to ascertain influence, and conclude that the union has become a niche international security provider that has in turn strengthened EU foreign policy.
Does the EU matter in international security? The authors identify and explain the drivers of and brakes to EU foreign security action, offer methods ...
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The Maritime Dimension of European Security: Seapower and the European Union
ISBN: 9781137017802 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the significance of the maritime domain for European security in general and the European Union in particular.
This book discusses the significance of the maritime domain for European security in general and the European Union in particular.
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U.S. Military Bases and Anti-Military Organizing: An Ethnography of an Air Force Base in Ecuador
ISBN: 9781137501172 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first decades of the twenty-first century in Latin America have been characterized by rapidly intensifying US-led militarization, with the US acquiring controversial rights and unprecedented access to facilities in Panama, Honduras, and Peru. US Military Bases and Anti-Military Organizing is the first book to look closely at the struggles of anti-military activists in Ecuador as they attempted to challenge what was, for just under ten years, the US Air Force's largest forward operating location in the Western hemisphere. Drawing on sixteen months of fieldwork with US military personnel,...
The first decades of the twenty-first century in Latin America have been characterized by rapidly intensifying US-led militarization, with the US acqu...
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The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition: Questions and Controversies Over NATO Membership
ISBN: 9781137552273 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Montenegro has been a much neglected part of former Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition aims to scrutinize the identity debates in Montenegrin public opinion over the question of membership to NATO and to explore how narratives created for that purpose have been linked with Montenegrin identity, history, tradition, and the concept of Montenegrin masculinity. The intertwining of the question of identity with that of NATO membership, and the inseparability of these issues from the context of quotidian politics produces an array of controversies among Montenegrin citizens. The book...
Montenegro has been a much neglected part of former Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition aims to scrutinize the identity debates in Montenegr...
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An Essay on Strategy: As It Affects the Achievement of Peace in a Nuclear Setting
ISBN: 9780333529874 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the same author as "The Foundations of Defensive Defence," this book looks at the effect of strategy on the achievement of peace in a nuclear age. Topics are approached from a political, a nuclear, and a sub-nuclear level. The present position, and its historical background are also examined.
By the same author as "The Foundations of Defensive Defence," this book looks at the effect of strategy on the achievement of peace in a nuclear age. ...
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The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition: Questions and Controversies Over NATO Membership
ISBN: 9781349576579 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition analyzes identity debates that have developed in the Montenegrin public regarding the question of Montenegro's accession to NATO and explores how narratives created for that purpose, typically representative of "culture wars," have been linked with Montenegrin identity, history, and Montenegrin masculinity. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition analyzes identity debates that have developed in the Montenegrin public regarding the question of Montenegro's ac... |
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Constrained Balancing: The Eu's Security Policy
ISBN: 9781349317844 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The creation of the EU's autonomous security policy in 1999 ended ten years of political conflict. In this book, the policies of Britain and Germany are analyzed as those of 'constrained balancing': balancing US post-Cold War supremacy with the constraints of established security institutions.
The creation of the EU's autonomous security policy in 1999 ended ten years of political conflict. In this book, the policies of Britain and Germany a...
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Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era
ISBN: 9781349355136 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discour...
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Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs
ISBN: 9781349541232 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of the Cold War, the Revolution in Military Affairs, 9/11 and the War on Terror have radically altered the nature of conflict and security in the Twenty-first Century. This book considers how developments in technology effect the prosecution of war and what the changing nature of warfare means for human rights and civil society.
The end of the Cold War, the Revolution in Military Affairs, 9/11 and the War on Terror have radically altered the nature of conflict and security in ...
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European Security and Transatlantic Relations After 9/11 and the Iraq War
ISBN: 9781349518951 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time of unprecedented turmoil in the transatlantic relationship, as America asserts its right to act unilaterally to defend itself against terrorism and Europeans are increasingly aggressive in promoting a multilateralist approach to security issues, this book examines the post-9/11 and Iraqi war security environment, especially the impact on NATO and transatlantic relations as the European Union seeks to build a unified foreign and defence policy that will enable Europeans to play a fuller role in the international system.
At a time of unprecedented turmoil in the transatlantic relationship, as America asserts its right to act unilaterally to defend itself against terror...
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Transaction Costs and Security Institutions: Unravelling the Esdp
ISBN: 9781349327270 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective. This book addresses the puzzle of how to approach differing institutional preferences. It argues that the reduction and limitation of transaction costs was the primary determinant of security preferences.
Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective. This book addresses the puzzle of how to approa...
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Nato: The Power of Partnerships
ISBN: 9781349324231 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they 'provide' more security than they 'consume'. But the utility for NATO of partners also changes over time. This book scrutinizes these partnerships, both from a NATO perspective and from that of its partners.
NATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they 'provide' more securi...
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Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99: In Search of a Policy
ISBN: 9781349406777 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The strategic imperative is held as the primary explanation for Pakistan's military buildup. This book presents a fundamental departure in presenting an analysis of the internal dynamics of defence management and decisionmaking in Pakistan - a new nuclear weapon state. This is an in-depth study of Pakistan's security link with its arms suppliers and defence industrial capacity, and the influence of Pakistan's Army on conventional and non-conventional defence decisions. The analysis is backed with numerous case studies of defence decisions carried out from 1979-99.
The strategic imperative is held as the primary explanation for Pakistan's military buildup. This book presents a fundamental departure in presenting ...
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New Security Threats and Crises in Africa: Regional and International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349290796 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relations in an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It moves beyond colonization, marginalization, imperialism to look at the forces and dynamics that are reshaping Africa's external relations today.
This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relations in an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It m...
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South Korean Strategic Thought Toward Asia
ISBN: 9781349536214 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the crossroads of Northeast Asia, South Korea provides a critical vantage point for viewing changes in the region. This comprehensive review of the past quarter century covers its strategic thinking in regard to China, Japan, Russia, regionalism, and reunification.
At the crossroads of Northeast Asia, South Korea provides a critical vantage point for viewing changes in the region. This comprehensive review of the...
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The Rand Corporation (1989-2009): The Reconfiguration of Strategic Studies in the United States
ISBN: 9781349343683 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood and illustrated through an analysis of the evolution of the think tank community, and more particularly through a sociological study of the so-called defense intellectuals such as the RAND Corporation.
Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood an...
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Germany's Civilian Power Diplomacy: NATO Expansion and the Art of Communicative Action
ISBN: 9781349534777 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the diplomatic path of influence taken by German decision-makers during the early nineties in pursuit of their cautiously articulated interest in and commitment to the eastward enlargement of NATO.
This book assesses the diplomatic path of influence taken by German decision-makers during the early nineties in pursuit of their cautiously articulat...
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New Threats and New Actors in International Security
ISBN: 9781349529841 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged.
Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is t...
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Crises in the Atlantic Alliance: Affect and Relations Among NATO Members
ISBN: 9781349450114 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a theoretical and empirical examination of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1966 NATO crisis, and the 2003 Iraq crisis, Eznack explores the connections between affect and emotion, the occurrence of crises, and the repair of those crises in close allies' relationships, and provides a new perspective on alliances and friendly relations among states.
Through a theoretical and empirical examination of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1966 NATO crisis, and the 2003 Iraq crisis, Eznack explores the connectio...
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The Origins of U.S. Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1953
ISBN: 9781349606764 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States took almost a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to develop a coherent strategy of nuclear deterrence. it also suggests the inherent difficulties of relying on nuclear weapons to provide security in the first place.
The United States took almost a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to develop a coherent strategy of nuclear deterrence. it also suggests the inheren...
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