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  • The Russian Way of Deterrence

    Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War

    Selected among Foreign Affairs's "Best of Books 2024"From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of this strategy. Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky calls deterrence à la ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Military Innovation

    The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.

    This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) in Russia, the US, and Israel indicates the opposite. The US developed technology and ... Read more

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    Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy

    Religion, Politics, and Strategy

    Narrated by Noah Michael Levine ...

    Unabridged

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    A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity. This extraordinary intertwining of church and military is nowhere more visible than in the nuclear weapons community, where the ... Read more

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  • Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy

    Religion, Politics, and Strategy

    A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity. This extraordinary intertwining of church and military is nowhere more visible than in the nuclear weapons community, where the ... Read more

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  • The End of Strategic Stability?

    Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries

    During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries ... Read more

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  • How Do Leaders Make Decisions?

    Evidence from the East and West, Part A

    Series Book 28 - Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development
    Understanding how leaders make foreign policy and national security decisions is of paramount importance for the policy community and academia. This book explores how leaders such as Trump, Obama, Netanyahu and others make decisions using the Applied Decision Analysis (ADA) method.The chapters gathered here analyse the decisions made by key political figures around the world, past and present, in ... Read more

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  • How Do Leaders Make Decisions?

    Evidence from the East and West, Part B

    Series Book 28 - Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development
    Understanding how leaders make foreign policy and national security decisions is of paramount importance for the policy community and academia. Yet on their own, neither rational nor cognitive schools of decision-making analysis offer totally convincing results, and in any case, rigorous decision analysis methodologies are rarely, if ever, applied to the decisions of world leaders.How Do Leaders ... Read more

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  • The New Makers of Modern Strategy

    From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

    The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, ... Read more

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  • The Gates of Europe

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  • World Order

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  • Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

    Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

    This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings. ... Read more

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