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Detecting Nuclear Weapons: The IAEA and the Politics of Proliferation
By Chen Kane
This book critically examines the effectiveness of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), the international organization charged with preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Kane Chen looks at its safeguards system in order to evaluate the risk and possibility of a...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-44050-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Geopolitics, Strategy and the Transformation of Civilisations
By Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy
This new book captures how the uncertainties associated with the emergence of adversarial interstate relations transformed early civilizations. Leading authors compare the interaction of geopolitical and strategic thought in ancient Hebrew, Hindu, Chinese and Greek; and in the Muslim and...
July 2011 | 978-0-7146-5713-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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American Intellectuals and US Strategy: Forging the National Security Strategy during and after the Cold War
By Paulo J. B. Ramos
Have academics played any role in American grand strategy? Although academics are usually seen as out-of-touch idealists working in their ivory towers they have played an important role in national security policy processes, as this book will show. By examining the relationship between academics...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-43739-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Geopolitics and Strategic History 1871-2050
By Geoffrey Sloan
A new explanation of the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China. This volume contributes to empirically based geopolitical theory and uses that theory to improve our understanding of the major events in the international strategic...
June 2011 | 978-0-7146-5348-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Intelligence and Politics: An Introduction
By Philip Davies
The 9/11 attacks, the public furores over intelligence following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and a succession of highly publicized inquiries on both of sides of the Atlantic, have served to amplify a rapidly growing interest in Intelligence Studies. Subsequent terrorist attacks in Britain, Spain...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-42868-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons and International Order
By William Walker
Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-42106-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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US National Security Policy: Origins, Politics, and Contemporary Challenges
By Alexandra Homolar-Riechmann
This book is an accessible and innovative introduction to the key issues and emerging challenges of US national security policy in the twenty-first century. The text explores how the United States, as the hegemonic player in the international arena, defines its security interests and objectives,...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-78191-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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America's Freedom Agenda Towards the Middle East: Democracy or Domination
By Oz Hassan
This book generates a greater understanding, and critique, of the George W. Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa. That is to say, that it looks at how and why the Bush administration constructed democracy promotion for the Middle East as an American...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-60310-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Geopolitics for the 21st Century: Addressing National Insecurities
Edited by Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy Jr.
This edited volume assesses the geopolitical configuration of forces in the international arena at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, the international arena has entered a period of transition. Although the United States emerged as the victor in the Cold War...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-43392-1 | Hardback (Routledge)