New Books in National Security
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Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diploma...
In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,
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Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlan...
With Vladimir Putin’s Russia threatening the peace in Europe following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the North Atlantic and other maritime domains around Europe are once again vitally important...
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Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Cons...
Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of this military waste when it has served its purpose and what does it tell us about militarism in American culture?
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Elizabeth Economy, "The Third Revolution: Xi Ji...
Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...
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Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How...
Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...
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Jenna Jordan, "Leadership Decapitation: Strateg...
One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts...
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C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
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Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Hi...
Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...
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Christopher A. Preble, "Fuel to the Fire: How T...
President Trump has shown little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American leadership of the liberal international order...
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The Treaty of Versailles On Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
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Paul Robinson, "Russian Conservatism" (Cornell ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive examination of the roots and development of the hardy strain of conservative political thought in Russian history...
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Seyed Ali Alavi, "Iran and Palestine: Past, Pre...
Alavi surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran - with Palestinian organisations and leadership...
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Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
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Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Med...
Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...
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Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How ...
Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..
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David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland...
The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats,,,
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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Appeasement Eighty Years On
What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?
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Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
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Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
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Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War...
The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...
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Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How ...
Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...
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Aurélie Basha i Novosejt, "I Made Mistakes: Rob...
Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam … I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'...
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
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Bruce Rydel, "Beirut 1958: How America's Wars i...
In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....
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