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Author : Marc Trachtenberg
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Writings on Strategy, 1961-1969, and Retrospectives written by Marc Trachtenberg and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Ayson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159124
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age written by Robert Ayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating insight into the work of Thomas Schelling, one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States' early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most distinctive voices in Western strategy. This book shows how Schelling's thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions of the Cold War. In a demonstration that ideas can be just as significant as superpower politics, Robert Ayson traces the way this Harvard University professor built a unique intellectual framework using a mix of social-scientific reasoning, from economics to social theory and psychology. As such, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the intellectual history which underpins classical thinking on nuclear strategy and arms control - thinking which still has an enormous influence in the early twenty-first century.
Author : Andreas Wenger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585114188
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Living with Peril written by Andreas Wenger and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with Peril explains in detail how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations adapted to the reality of a Soviet nuclear force capable of destroying the United States and against which there was no effective defense. Wenger illuminates the development, implementation, and evolution of U.S. government policies designed to avoid war and to respond to the vulnerability of nuclear destruction. Drawing from a wealth of sources, Wenger provides an insightful and original perspective on the origins of cold war nuclear diplomacy. This is crucial reading for students and scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, and diplomatic history.
Author : Barry Scott Zellen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441124624
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book State of Doom written by Barry Scott Zellen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Howard Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy written by Barry Howard Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steiner analyzes how and why Brodie's understanding of weapons of unparalleled explosive force led him to posit the need for revolutionary strategic thinking in broadminded analytic method and in the focus upon cities as nuclear targets. He shows the tremendous effect Brodie's work had on the intellectual climate in which policy is determined, particularly in his frequent combatting of conventional wisdom.
Author : Dominic D. P. Johnson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691137455
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Strategic Instincts written by Dominic D. P. Johnson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the heart of much work in international relations is the attempt to understand why citizens and leaders act as they do-and over the last decade, a growing body of research has shown that the "rational choice theory" that has long guided this understanding is insufficient. People do not always behave rationally; instead, most of us have psychological biases that cause us to behave "irrationally." As political science has integrated this new behavioral research, the literature has tended to view such biases as source of errors or mistakes. Yet for other fields-most notably evolutionary biology-the same psychological biases are recognized as adaptive heuristics that evolved to improve our decision-making, not to undermine it. In this book, Johnson uses his cross-disciplinary training to push this evolutionary understanding of biases into the study of politics. Specifically, he asks: when and how can psychological biases cause or promote success in the realm of international relations? Johnson focuses on three of the most prominent psychological biases-overconfidence, the fundamental attribution error (the tendency to see others' actions as motivated by personality rather than the influence of external/situational factors) and in-group/out-group bias (favoring members of group one identifies with over those one does not). He outlines the scientific research on each bias, explores its adaptive advantages, and then gives detailed historical examples where the bias seems to have caused strategic advantages, focusing on the American Revolution (overconfidence), the UK and the appeasement of Hitler (fundamental attribution error) and the Pacific campaign in WW2 (group bias). He then circles back to acknowledge the "dark side" of biases when taken to the extreme, considering how confidence becomes hubris, the attribution error becomes paranoia and group bias becomes racism. Ultimately, Johnson argues that this evolutionary perspective is the crucial next step in bringing psychological insights to bear on the foundational questions in the field"--
Author : Bruce Kuklick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849462
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Blind Oracles written by Bruce Kuklick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War, Kuklick examines the role of both institutional policymakers such as those at The Rand Corporation and Harvard's Kennedy School, and individual thinkers including Paul Nitze, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow. Kuklick contends that the figures having the most influence on American strategy--Kissinger, for example--clearly understood the way politics and the exercise of power affects policymaking. Other brilliant thinkers, on the other hand, often played a minor role, providing, at best, a rationale for policies adopted for political reasons. At a time when the role of the neoconservatives' influence over American foreign policy is a subject of intense debate, this book offers important insight into the function of intellectuals in foreign policymaking.
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719038259
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Ideas that Shape Politics written by Michael Foley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas are the essence of politics: the means of debate, the inspiration for organization and the reason for conflict. This book presents a series of over 20 essays, in which distinguished writers analyze particular ideas according to their capacity to motivate and justify political action.
Author : Donald Stoker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009220888
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Why America Loses Wars written by Donald Stoker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political aims and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US political aims and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war, particularly wars fought for limited aims, taking the nation to war without understanding what they want or valuing victory and thus the ending of the war. He reveals how flawed ideas on so-called 'limited war' and war in general evolved against the backdrop of American conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These ideas, he shows, undermined America's ability to understand, wage, and win its wars, and to secure peace. Now fully updated to incorporate the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Why America Loses Wars dismantles seventy years of misguided thinking and lays the foundations for a new approach to the wars of tomorrow.
Author : Eric Herring
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719042935
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Danger and Opportunity written by Eric Herring and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook for the study of crisis behaviour, a key subject in international relations
Author : Matthew Evangelista
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415339247
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Peace Studies written by Matthew Evangelista and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The academic field of Peace Studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict and methods to prevent it and deal with its consequences.
Author : Emanuel Adler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415335904
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Communitarian International Relations written by Emanuel Adler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanuel Adler is one of the leading IR theorists of his generation. This volume brings together a collection of his articles, including four new and previously unpublished chapters.
Author : Marc Trachtenberg
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Basic Documents from the Eisenhower and Kennedy Periods, Including the Basic National Security Policy Papers from 1953 to 1959 written by Marc Trachtenberg and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1756 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William D James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198896603
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony written by William D James and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing several historical case studies between 1940-2003 and marshalling a host of primary sources, William D. James argues that British politicians and officials have thought in grand strategic terms under American hegemony - even if they do not realise or admit to this.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 2244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
