New Books in National Security
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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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Howard Kunreuther, "The Future of Risk Manageme...
This book highlights past research, recent discoveries, and open questions written by leading thinkers in risk management and behavioral sciences...
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
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Joshua Tallis, "The War for Muddy Waters: Pirat...
Tallis uses the “broken windows” theory of policing to reexamine the littorals, developing a multidimensional view of the maritime threat environment...
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Seth J. Frantzman, "After Isis: America, Iran a...
Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...
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Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
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Jay Sexton, "A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New A...
A popular myth in the American nationalist imaginary is that the country has been on a continued path of progress...
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Darren E. Tromblay, "Spying: Assessing US Domes...
Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?
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Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
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Emrah Şahin, "Faithful Encounters: Authorities ...
The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...
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Daniel Vukovich, "Illiberal China: The Ideologi...
Vukovich analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C...
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James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
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Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Sov...
Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...
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Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Tr...
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov uncover the collective history of the concept of partition and locate its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization...
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Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited...
Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war in strategic terms...
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