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International Military Alliances, 1648-2008

Author : Douglas M. Gibler
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1604266848
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book International Military Alliances, 1648-2008 written by Douglas M. Gibler and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inaugural title in the Correlates of War series from CQ Press, this 2-volume set catalogs every official interstate alliance signed from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 through the early twenty-first century, ranking it among the most thorough and accessible reviews of formal military treaties ever published. Maps and introductions showcase the effects of alliances on the region or international system in century-specific chapters, while individual narratives and summaries of alliances simultaneously provide basic information, such as dates and member states, as well as essential insights on the conditions that prompted the agreement. Additionally, separate and/or secret articles are highlighted for additional context and interest. Supplementary features of this two-volume set include: A timeline cataloging major events in political and military history Guides listing allegiances by region and by century An alphabetical treaty index Maps illustrating political boundaries across the centuries International Military Alliances is an indispensable resource for any library serving students of law, politics, history, and military science.

The Territorial Peace

Author : Douglas M. Gibler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016215
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Territorial Peace written by Douglas M. Gibler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas M. Gibler argues that threats to homeland territories force domestic political centralization within the state. Using an innovative theory of state development, he explains patterns of international conflict and democracy in the world over time.

International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation

Author : T. V. Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379679
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation written by T. V. Paul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional transformation has emerged as a major topic of research during the past few decades, much of it seeking to understand how a region changes into a zone of conflict or cooperation and how and why some regions remain in perpetual conflict. Although the leading theoretical paradigms of international relations have something to say about regional order, a comprehensive treatment of this subject is missing from the literature. This book suggests that cross-paradigmatic engagement on regional orders can be valuable if it can generate theoretically innovative, testable propositions and policy-relevant ideas. The book brings together scholars from the dominant IR perspectives aiming to explain the regional order issue through multidimensional and multi-causal pathways and seeking meeting points between them. Using insights from IR theory, the contributors offer policy-relevant ideas which may benefit conflict-ridden regions of the world.

The Supply Side of Security

Author : Tongfi Kim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804798591
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Supply Side of Security written by Tongfi Kim and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security. Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments as the main factors that explain the bargaining power of a state in a potential or existing alliance. Additionally, three variables of a state's domestic politics significantly affect its negotiating power: whether there is strong domestic opposition to the alliance, whether the state's leader is pro-alliance, and whether that leader is vulnerable. Kim then looks beyond existing alliance literature, which focuses on threats, to produce a deductive theory based on analysis of how the global power structure and domestic politics affect alliances. As China becomes stronger and the U.S. military budget shrinks, The Supply Side of Security shows that these countries should be understood not just as competing threats, but as competing security suppliers.

Arguing about Alliances

Author : Paul Poast
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740253
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Arguing about Alliances written by Paul Poast and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure? From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler in the 1930s, to the present inability of Ukraine to join NATO, states frequently attempt but fail to form alliance treaties. In Arguing about Alliances, Paul Poast sheds new light on the purpose of alliance treaties by recognizing that such treaties come from negotiations, and that negotiations can end in failure. In a book that bridges Stephen Walt's Origins of Alliance and Glenn Snyder's Alliance Politics, two classic works on alliances, Poast identifies two conditions that result in non-agreement: major incompatibilities in the internal war plans of the participants, and attractive alternatives to a negotiated agreement for various parties to the negotiations. As a result, Arguing about Alliances focuses on a group of states largely ignored by scholars: states that have attempted to form alliance treaties but failed. Poast suggests that to explain the outcomes of negotiations, specifically how they can end without agreement, we must pay particular attention to the wartime planning and coordinating functions of alliance treaties. Through his exploration of the outcomes of negotiations from European alliance negotiations between 1815 and 1945, Poast offers a typology of alliance treaty negotiations and establishes what conditions are most likely to stymie the attempt to formalize recognition of common national interests.

The 'legal Pluriverse' Surrounding Multinational Military Operations

Author : Robin Geiß
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198842961
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The 'legal Pluriverse' Surrounding Multinational Military Operations written by Robin Geiß and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Legal Pluriverse' Surrounding Multinational Military Operations conceptualizes and examines the "Pluriverse": the multiplicity of rules that apply to and regulate contemporary multinational missions, and the array of actors involved. These operations are further complicated by changes to the classification of the conflict, and the asymmetry of obligations on participants. Structured into five parts, this work seeks, through the diversity of its authorship, to set out the web of legal regimes applicable to military operations including forces from more than one state. It maps out the ways in which different regimes interact, beginning with the laws of armed conflict and their relation to international humanitarian and human rights norms, and extending through to areas like law of the sea and environmental law. A variety of contributors systematically compile and take stock of the various legal regimes that make up the pluriverse, assessing how these rules interact, exposing norm conflicts, areas of legal uncertainty, or protective loopholes. In this way, they identify and evaluate approaches to better streamline the different applicable legal frameworks with a view to enhancing cooperation and thereby ensuring the long-term success of multinational military operations.

Following the Leader

Author : Raymond C. Kuo
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503628574
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Following the Leader written by Raymond C. Kuo and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances right. When security pacts go well, they underpin regional and global order; when they fail, they spread wars across continents as states are dragged into conflict. We would, therefore, expect states to carefully tailor their military partnerships to specific conditions. This expectation, Raymond C. Kuo argues, is wrong. Following the Leader argues that most countries ignore their individual security interests in military pacts, instead converging on a single, dominant alliance strategy. The book introduces a new social theory of strategic diffusion and emulation, using case studies and advanced statistical analysis of alliances from 1815 to 2003. In the wake of each major war that shatters the international system, a new hegemon creates a core military partnership to target its greatest enemy. Secondary and peripheral countries rush to emulate this alliance, illustrating their credibility and prestige by mimicking the dominant form. Be it the NATO model that seems so commonsense today, or the realpolitik that reigned in Europe of the late nineteenth century, a lone alliance strategy has defined broad swaths of diplomatic history. It is not states' own security interests driving this phenomenon, Kuo shows, but their jockeying for status in a world periodically remade by great powers.

ICCWS 2019 14th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security

Author : Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
ISBN 13 : 1912764121
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book ICCWS 2019 14th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security written by Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Security Studies

Author : Paul D Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000820300
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Security Studies written by Paul D Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda. This new edition has been completely revised and updated, to cover major developments such as COVID-19, the rise of populism, climate change, China and Russia’s place in the world, and the Trump administration. It also includes new chapters on great power rivalry, emerging technologies, and economic threats. Divided into four parts, the text provides students with a detailed, accessible overview of the major theoretical approaches, key themes, and most significant issues within security studies. Part 1 explores the main theoretical approaches from both traditional and critical standpoints Part 2 explains the central concepts underpinning contemporary debates Part 3 presents an overview of the institutional security architecture Part 4 examines some of the key contemporary challenges to global security Collecting these related strands into a single textbook creates a valuable teaching tool and a comprehensive, accessible learning resource for undergraduates and MA students.

International Conflict

Author : Stephen L. Quackenbush
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1452240981
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book International Conflict written by Stephen L. Quackenbush and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing students to key theories and empirical findings of international conflict stemming from scientific research on core facets, this book covers the whole process of interstate war, from causes of conflict to escalation, conduct, resolution and recurrence.

Uncertainty, Threat, and International Security

Author : Ivan Savic
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131705038X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Uncertainty, Threat, and International Security written by Ivan Savic and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of China is changing the strategic landscape globally and regionally. How states respond to potential threats posed by this new power arrangement will be crucial to international relations for the coming decades. This book builds on existing realist and rationalist concepts of balancing, bandwagoning, commitment problems, and asymmetric information to craft explanations about how states respond when faced with potential threats. Specifically, the book explores the role different types of uncertainty play in potential balancing situations. Particular focus is given to the nature of the rising state’s actions, the balance of forces, and the value of delay. These concepts are analysed and illustrated through a series of case studies on Europe in the 1930s as well as the present-day Southeast Asia, looking at great powers such as Britain and France, but also a wide range of smaller powers including Poland, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

The Changing East Asian Security Landscape

Author : Stefan Fröhlich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658188944
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book The Changing East Asian Security Landscape written by Stefan Fröhlich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this book deals with a highly relevant empirical issue: East asian security and the dynamics of the respective governance structure or architecture are not only of regional but of global concern. Since the pivot of the American pivot to East Asia and other external actor ́s responses to it the security architecture has changed in form, size and function. In order to analyze and explain these changes, hypotheses derived from IR middle range theories (i.e. soft and hard balancing) will be applied to cases of bilateral and multilateral security governance in East Asia.

Military Interventions in Civil Wars

Author : Kamil C. Klosek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000456129
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Military Interventions in Civil Wars written by Kamil C. Klosek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade. The book assumes a state-centric view of international relations, whereby states remain the dominant actors on the world stage. It breaks away from the conventional wisdom that military interventions for economic interests are a product of domestic corporate lobbying and instead argues that states intervene to protect (but not advance) existing corporate investments for national strategic interests. The work introduces new concepts of military interventions – proxy interventions and indirect interventions – which are determined by arms trade relationships between the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and recipient countries, and utilizes insights from principal-agent theory, whereby the permanent members of the UNSC delegate military interventions in civil wars to other countries. The book concludes by examining the transformative effect of FDI on the willingness of a state to intervene militarily in a civil war, focusing on the case of China in Sub-Saharan Africa. Provided that the current positive trends in FDI and arms trade persist, we are likely to see more and not fewer military interventions in the future. This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, military interventions, security studies and International Relations.

What Do We Know about War?

Author : Sara McLaughlin Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538140101
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book What Do We Know about War? written by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable text—in an all-new set of chapters—brings together leading international relations scholars to assess the current theory and research on the causes of war and what promotes peace. Considering fifty years of research, the contributors provide a student-friendly overview of current knowledge and an agenda for future questions.

Approaches to Geo-mathematical Modelling

Author : Alan G. Wilson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118922271
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Geo-mathematical Modelling written by Alan G. Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geo-mathematical modelling: models from complexity science Sir Alan Wilson, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Mathematical and computer models for a complexity science tool kit Geographical systems are characterised by locations, activities at locations, interactions between them and the infrastructures that carry these activities and flows. They can be described at a great variety of scales, from individuals and organisations to countries. Our understanding, often partial, of these entities, and in many cases this understanding is represented in theories and associated mathematical models. In this book, the main examples are models that represent elements of the global system covering such topics as trade, migration, security and development aid together with examples at finer scales. This provides an effective toolkit that can not only be applied to global systems, but more widely in the modelling of complex systems. All complex systems involve nonlinearities involving path dependence and the possibility of phase changes and this makes the mathematical aspects particularly interesting. It is through these mechanisms that new structures can be seen to ‘emerge’, and hence the current notion of ‘emergent behaviour’. The range of models demonstrated include account-based models and biproportional fitting, structural dynamics, space-time statistical analysis, real-time response models, Lotka-Volterra models representing ‘war’, agent-based models, epidemiology and reaction-diffusion approaches, game theory, network models and finally, integrated models. Geo-mathematical modelling: Presents mathematical models with spatial dimensions. Provides representations of path dependence and phase changes. Illustrates complexity science using models of trade, migration, security and development aid. Demonstrates how generic models from the complexity science tool kit can each be applied in a variety of situations This book is for practitioners and researchers in applied mathematics, geography, economics, and interdisciplinary fields such as regional science and complexity science. It can also be used as the basis of a modelling course for postgraduate students.

The Myth of 1648

Author : Benno Teschke
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859846933
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of 1648 written by Benno Teschke and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 is widely interpreted as the foundation of modern international relations. Benno Teschke exposes this as a myth. In the process he provides a fresh re-interpretation of the making of modern international relations from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Inspired by the groundbreaking historical work of Robert Brenner, Teschke argues that social property relations provide the key to unlocking the changing meaning of international across the medieval, early modern, and modern periods. He traces how the long-term interaction of class conflict, economic development, and international rivalry effected the formation of the modern system of states. Yet instead of identifying a breakthrough to interstate modernity in the so-called long sixteenth century or in the period of intensified geopolitical competition during the seventeenth century, Teschke shows that geopolitics remained governed by dynastic and absolutist political communities, rooted in feudal property regimes. The Myth of 1648 argues that the onset of specifically modern international relations only began with the conjunction of the rise of capitalism and modern state-formation in England. Thereafter, the English model caused the restructuring of the old regimes of the Continent. This was a long-term process of socially uneven development, not completed until World War I.

Military Statecraft and the Rise of Shaping in World Politics

Author : Kyle J. Wolfley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538150654
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Military Statecraft and the Rise of Shaping in World Politics written by Kyle J. Wolfley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how changes in the structure of the international system and technology incentivize major powers to adopt different types of military power—either the traditional threat and use of force or “shaping” through the non-warfighting use of military organizations—to manage threats in world politics.