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“chiara ruffa”

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  • Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations

    Afghanistan and Lebanon

    by Chiara Ruffa ...
    As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also have a concomitant influence on their goals and impact. Yet we know surprisingly little about the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Composing Peace

    Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping

    by Chiara Ruffa, Andrea Ruggeri, Vincenzo Bove ...
    Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace. This book focuses on four types of mission composition--diversity among peacekeepers, within the mission leadership, between mission leaders and peacekeepers, and between ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations

    Afghanistan and Lebanon

    by Chiara Ruffa ...
    As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also have a concomitant influence on their goals and impact. Yet we know surprisingly little about the ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Issues in EU and US Foreign Policy

    by Mika Aaltola, Cristian A. Cantir, Bjorn Olav Knutsen, Aylin Ünver Noi, Hanna Ojanen, Patryk Pawlak, Chiara Ruffa, Charlotta Spolander, Emma J. Stewart, May-Britt Stumbaum, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, Yannis Tsantoulis ...
    Issues in E.U. and U.S. Foreign Policy, edited by Münevver Cebeci, aims at analyzing the perceptions, interests, and policies of the EU and the US on various international issues. It portrays their convergences and divergences, and reflects on their interplay. The book has a geographical focus rather than a thematic one; however, some themes such as weapons of mass destruction, dual use technology ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

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    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a ... Read more

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  • Understanding Modern Warfare

    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

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  • No Easy Task

    Fighting in Afghanistan

    Edited by Colonel Bernd Horn, Dr. Emily Spencer ...
    Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires. Throughout their history, Afghans have endured the ravages of foreign invaders, from marauding hordes and imperial armies to global superpowers, while demonstrating a fierce independence and strong resistance to outside occupiers. Those who have ventured into Afghanistan with notions of controlling its people have soon discovered that ... Read more

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  • Adaptation under Fire

    How Militaries Change in Wartime

    by Lt. General David Barno, Nora Bensahel ...
    Series series BRIDGING THE GAP SERIES
    A critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable. Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once noted: "We have a perfect record in predicting the next war. We have never once gotten it right." In the face of such great uncertainty, militaries ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Small Wars, Big Data

    The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

    by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro ...
    How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today’s conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. ... Read more

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  • NATO in Afghanistan

    Fighting Together, Fighting Alone

    by David P. Auerswald, Stephen M. Saideman ...
    Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners. Yet as the war in Afghanistan has made abundantly clear, multilateral cooperation is neither straightforward nor guaranteed. Countries differ significantly in what they are willing to do and how and where they are willing to do it. Some refuse to participate in ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of War

    Edited by Julian Lindley-French, Yves Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war ... Read more

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  • Nonstate Warfare

    The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

    by Stephen Biddle ...
    How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate Warfare, ... Read more

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