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Transforming Command: The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli ArmiesOn today's complex, fragmented, fast-moving battlefield, where combatants adapt constantly to exploit one-another's weaknesses, there is a demonstrable requirement for military commanders to devolve a high level of autonomy of decision-making and action to leaders on the ground. An effective model for doing this...
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China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global ReachUntil now, no single volume has provided an authoritative, comprehensive, and concise description of China's evolving geo-strategy, or detailed how China is transforming its military to carry out this strategy. This book examines the current and future issues impinging on that strategic evolution, in...
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Hyperconflict: Globalization and InsecurityThis book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel insecurity? And what are the implications for world order? Coming to grips with these matters requires building a bridge between the geoeconomics...
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Moved to Action: Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American PoliticsWealthy, educated, and more privileged people are more likely to participate and be represented in politics than their poorer, less educated, and less privileged counterparts. To reduce these inequalities, we need a better understanding of how the disadvantaged become motivated to participate. Moved to...
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's PerspectiveSince the mid-1950s, the international community has sought to ban all nuclear testing. In 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty emerged after three years of intense international negotiations. However, after nearly a decade, there is no sign that the treaty will ever enter...
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Minimum Deterrence and Indiaas Nuclear SecurityIn this book, the leading authority on India's nuclear program offers an informed and thoughtful assessment of India's nuclear strategy. Basrur shows that the country's nuclear culture is generally in accord with the principle of minimum deterrence but sometimes drifts into a more open-ended...
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Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal BiopoliticsChina's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China's population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender...
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New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas Andfrom Latin America in JapenThis book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout the Americas-including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States.Author: Lane Ryo HirabayashiPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished:...
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Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001This collection of essays and interviews, some previously unpublished and almost all of which appear in English for the first time, encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida over thirty years. Passionate, rigorous, beautifully argued, wide-ranging, the texts shed an entirely new...
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Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939Despite its importance, the twentieth-century Latin American right has received little scholarly attention. This is the first book to explicitly compare extreme rightist organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. Hardly an undifferentiated whole, the right in Argentina, Brazil, and...
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Letting the People Decide: The Dynamics of Canadian ElectionsThe authors have based the book primarily on data derived from the 1988 Canadian Election Study, for which they were co-investigators. The survey was a "rolling cross-section": a daily tracking of the campaign designed explicitly to monitor electoral dynamics. The multivariate techniques commonly involved...
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Order Without Design: Information Production and Policy MakingIn this lively and, ultimately, disturbing study of policy analysts who are employed in bureaucracies, the author finds a startling paradox. The analysts know that the papers they so painstakingly prepare will not be used; as one analyst remarked, Either it won't get done...
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The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological IntroductionThe institutional features and the past and future role of the state should be a central concern of contemporary sociological and political theory, but until now they have been sadly neglected. Lately, in particular, the state's increasing involvement in the management of industrial and...
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Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on YouBehind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool. From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it...
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Paper Valley: The Fight for the Fox River CleanupWhen government scientist David Allen arrived at his new jobsite in the 1990s, the Fox River near Wisconsin's Green Bay was dominated by hulking paper mills, noxious industrial odors, and widespread ecological damage. Confronted by his lack of resources to force the politically powerful...
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Transforming LeadershipIn 1978, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian James MacGregor Burns published Leadership, a seminal book dealing with how leaders interact with society and through their efforts have the power to shape the course of history. The book became the basis for an...
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Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary IraqiSalam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept dyring the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax provides one...
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Honorable Treachery: A History of U. S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIAForeign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence, and yet this subject has often been overlooked in standard histories. Honorable Treachery fills in these details, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation since our nation's birth. These include...
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Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of DescentGentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.-Sir Ernest Rutherford, winner of the Nobel Prize in Nuclear Physics Time to Start Thinking is a book destined to spark debate among liberals and conservatives alike. Drawing on his decades of...
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Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New ImperialismSomalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally.Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture.The first reports of what became known...
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