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U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the Industrial Base, 2000-2013

by Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders & Rhys McCormick

This report analyzes contracting for products, services, and research & development (R&D) by the Department of Defense (DoD) and its key components.

Building Hegemonic Order Russia's Way: Order, Stability, and Predictability in the Post-Soviet Space

by Michael O. Slobodchikoff

This book examines Russia’s emergence after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its creation of a security architecture in the post-Soviet space. It explores how through building this security architecture,...

Quantitative Intelligence Analysis: Applied Analytic Models, Simulations, and Games

by Edward Waltz

The text explains the model-based method of intelligence analysis that represents the analyst’s mental models of a subject as well as the analyst’s reasoning process. It includes dynamic simulations and...

The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library: Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic

by Michael Posluns, William R. Morrion, Greg Poelzer & Anthony Dalton et al.

This special ten-book bundle presents the history and culture of the Canadian Arctic told compellingly from all possible angles, cultural, military, historical, and biographical. A one-stop guide to this fascinating...

Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from China, India, and the United States

by Mohan Malik

In the twenty-first century, the Indo-Pacific has emerged as a crucial geostrategic region for trade, investment, energy supplies, cooperation, and competition. It presents complex maritime security challenges...

The Challenge of Nation-Building: Implementing Effective Innovation in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Iraq War

by Rebecca Patterson

The Challenge of Nation-Building examines the conditions that have allowed or prevented the U.S. Army to innovate for nation-building effectively. By doing so, it shows how military leadership and civil-military...

The Indian Ocean Region: A Strategic Net Assessment

by Anthony H. Cordesman & Abdullah Toukan

The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is one of the most areas of the world in human terms. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the subregions and countries in the IOR, drawing heavily on a new country risk...

Symbolism in Terrorism: Motivation, Communication, and Behavior

by Jonathan Matusitz

The symbolic character of terrorism is the focus of this textbook. A comprehensive analysis, it incorporates descriptions, definitions, case studies, and theories. This groundbreaking text encompasses all major...

America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism

by Sean Kay

In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America’s rise to power from the founding period through...

Military Soft Power: Public Diplomacy through Military Educational Exchanges

by Carol Atkinson

The military has long been associated with hard power, yet it is engaged in public diplomacy as it represents the U.S. abroad and facilitates the diffusion of ideas. Military Soft Power examines one such aspect...

Shaping U.S. Military Forces for the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from Conflict Management in Past Great Power Eras

by Michael R. Kraig

Shaping U.S. Military Forces for the Asia-Pacific examines how U.S. Joint Forces should be used to face the threat of a rising China at a time when future crises and even wars are likely to be defined by relatively...

Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

by John Robb

"For my money, John Robb, a former Air Force officer and tech guru, is the futurists' futurist."

--"Slate"

The counterterrorism expert John Robb reveals how the same technology that has enabled globalization also...

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives

by Brandon D. Lundy, Jesse J. Benjamin, Akanmu G. Adebayo & Paul Paterson et al.

This book presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of successful and unsuccessful integrations of indigenous and Western strategies. As it explores these methods,...

The New Era in U.S. National Security: An Introduction to Emerging Threats and Challenges

by Jack A. Jarmon

This core text for international security, strategy, war studies students is a timely and comprehensive study of the realities of national security in the United States today. Pulling together different areas,...

The Art of Intelligence: Simulations, Exercises, and Games

by William J. Lahneman & Rubén Arcos

This is the first textbook to offer in one volume original simulations, exercises, and games designed by academics and intelligence professionals from several countries. These innovative methods are meant to...

Managing Conflicts in India: Policies of Coercion and Accommodation

by Bidisha Biswas

In Managing Conflicts in India, Bidisha Biswas analyzes how democratic states choose between policies of coercion and accommodation by addressing the under-studied topic of India’s approach to internal conflicts....

Perspectives on Western Sahara: Myths, Nationalisms, and Geopolitics

by Anouar Boukhars & Jacques Roussellier

This thorough, impartial survey brings together some of the best experts on the Sahara question to provide a broad-based analysis of the problem from a range of perspectives. Featuring new research, the chapters...

The Unrecognised Peril - Threats to Environmental Security

by S Utham Kumar Jamadhagni

Acknowledging the importance of non traditional security in the wider debate, this book looks at one significant aspect namely, environmental security. The book discusses different issues of theoretical and...

Civil-Military Relationships in Developing Countries

by Glen Segell, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Mpho G. Molomo & Mary Jo Halder et al.

Civil–Military Relationships in Developing Countries analyzes the crucial links between security, democratization, economic development, and state building institutions. With studies of fourteen countries...

Publius and Political Imagination

by Jason Frank

Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political philosophers,...