New Books in National Security
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H. Eric Schockman, "Peace, Reconciliation and S...
This book explore ways that leaders and followers can bring forth pacifism, peace building, nonviolence, forgiveness, and social cooperation...
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Sigurd Neubauer, "The Gulf Region and Israel: O...
Shunned by Arab states for much of its existence, Israel has become in recent years a key factor in efforts by Gulf states to punch above their weigh...
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Gregory Afinogenov, "Spies and Scholars: Chines...
Afinogenov offers a trove of insights into the centuries-long entanglements which have shaped Sino-Russian relationships up to the present...
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Andreas Fulda, "The Struggle for Democracy in M...
The key question Fulda poses is to what extent political activists in these three domiciles have made progress in their quest to liberalize and democratize their respective polities...
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Evy Poumpouras, "Becoming Bulletproof" (Atria P...
Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games, Evy Poumpouras, shares lessons learned from protecting presidents...
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David Shimer, "Rigged: America, Russia, and One...
Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...
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S. Moskalenko and C. McCauley, "Radicalization ...
The authors propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence...
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Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Af...
The Jakarta Method joins a growing body of scholarly work on what some call a “political genocide” and what a 1968 CIA report deemed “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.
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Michael Schuman, "Superpower Interrupted: The C...
The biggest question of the twenty-first century is: What does China want?
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E. Bruce Geelhoed, "Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-...
What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned?
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Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB ...
The Russian state is back.
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George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
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Paul D’Anieri, "Ukraine and Russia: From Civili...
D'Anieri documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine...
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Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
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Thomas C. Field Jr. et al., "Latin America and ...
The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...
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Lauren Turek, "To Bring the Good News to All Na...
Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...
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Kurt Braddock, "Weaponized Words" (Cambridge UP...
Braddock applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few....
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Joyce E. Leader, "From Hope to Horror: Diplomac...
Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Elizabeth A. Stanley, "Widen the Window" (Avery...
Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging...
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Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a ...
Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: Hong Kong on the B...
Wasserstrom provides a nuanced yet accessible overview of the struggle between Hong Kong and China over self-governance and civil liberties...
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Toshihiro Higuchi, "Political Fallout: Nuclear ...
Higuchi presents a history of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, by which the then-nuclear powers, US, USSR, and UK, agreed to cease, among other things, the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons...
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Courtney J. Fung, "China and Intervention at th...
Fung finds that social constructions by way of public discourse of regime change matter when embedded in wider material conditions. She argues that anxieties about loss of status help explain China’s choices...
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Andrew Monaghan, "Dealing with the Russians" (P...
Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st century...
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