At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While such acts of secre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783210)
Cybersecurity is less like warfare and more like intelligence. Intelligence is a form of conflict that exploits cooperation, and cyber conflict is a form of intelligence that exploits large-scale cooperation in cyberspace. This book thus develops a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501782442)
This book explains why states continue economic cooperation while inflicting devastating human and economic costs on each other on the battlefield. It examines wartime commercial policy in the Crimean War (1854-56), World War I, and World War II and...Loe edasi...
The Art of Coercion presents a fresh explanation for the success—and failure—of coercive demands in international politics.Strong states are surprisingly bad at coercion. History shows they prevail only a third o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501782688)
The Art of Coercion presents a fresh explanation for the success—and failure—of coercive demands in international politics.Strong states are surprisingly bad at coercion. History shows they prevail only a third o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779220)
This book is about theory and collection of supporting quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence regarding the strategic logic of negotiating during war--Provided by publisher-- In Words of War, Eric Min...Loe edasi...
Even powerful states face disaster if their armies do not adapt military doctrine to meet new challenges. Comparing the cases of the United States Army in Vietnam and the British Army during the Boer War and the Malayan Emergency, Politi...Loe edasi...
The Best Defense considers fundamental questions regarding the United States and the Soviet Union acquiring capabilities to destroy each other in a nuclear war. Was it inevitable? Or could they have agreed instead to address t...Loe edasi...
How do foreign policymakers learn from history? When do states enter alliances? Why have some small powers chosen to enter alliances whereas others have stayed neutral? In Crucible of Beliefs, Dan Reiter uses work in social psycholog...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501779015)
In Strong Commanders, Weak States, Philip A. Martin investigates a fundamental political challenge faced by post-conflict states: how to create obedient national militaries from the remnants of insurgent forces. When civil wars end, non-s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Dec-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501772924)
By revealing how US leaders deliberately trade off unpopular foreign policy stances for the optics of appearing competent, this book offers an explanation for consistent American voter frustration with their countrys foreign policy that is instruct...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501772474)
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for their own defense. The United States has a mixed track record of enc...Loe edasi...
In this account of an unusual episode in the Cold War, Audrey Kurth Cronin examines the negotiations over Austria and the Soviet Unions sudden and surprising decision to withdraw its troops and accept the country as a neutral Western state, after...Loe edasi...
In 1951, General Omar Bradley declared publicly that war with China would involve the United States in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. Despite the stated intent of the U.S. to keep the Korea...Loe edasi...
As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Gian...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501769160)
The idea that the Cold War was a natural political outcome of the Soviet Unions Communist ideology is a common one. However, this book argues that American policy was a key reason for that conflicts continuation. Its focus is on US-Soviet diplomac...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the characteristics and risks in the new nuclear age, which is populated by potentially more nuclear states with less reliable and smaller nuclear arsenals, often best by volatile domestic politics, face more and more intense ri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501767012)
In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by path...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501765919)
Major wars are caused by the attempts of great powers to escape encirclement. Encirclement occurs in presence of one or two great powers on two different borders of the encircled great power. When the surrounding great powers become capable of launc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501764851)
Rebecca Davis Gibbons argues that the nuclear nonproliferation regime is a fundamental part of the US-led global ordering project, that Washington, DC, has long persuaded other states to join this regime such that a decline in US relative power coul...Loe edasi...
In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence, Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence. It is often assumed that if the United States failed to defen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501763045)
This book proposes and tests a new theory of how legally discrete military alliances are, in fact, interdependent. It does so using archival research on U.S. alliances in Asia from 1949 until 1969-- In Reliability and Allian...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501761232)
The author develops an argument that explains when international ideological enemies are likely to ally to balance shared material threats. He tests its predictions in three cases: British and French alliance policies toward the Soviet Union in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Dec-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501761140)
In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likel...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501760341)
This book uses archivally based, comparative case studies to explore decision making regarding preventive war as a counterproliferation strategy by (1) US presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 against China, Iraq, and North Kore...Loe edasi...
States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d’état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly ai...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501758454)
This book explores wartime learning on the Western Front of the First World War-- In Dying to Learn, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western...Loe edasi...
Unpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues in Tempting Fate that the costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons create openings that weak nonnuclear actors can ex...Loe edasi...
In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states rather than separatists determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501754784)
In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning hearts and minds is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besie...Loe edasi...
