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  • The Ideology of the Offensive

    Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914

    by Jack L. Snyder ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military strategies even though there was considerable evidence to support the notion that much greater advantage lay ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Myths of Empire

    Domestic Politics and International Ambition

    by Jack L. Snyder ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    "Myths of Empire offers the best-developed theory to date of the domestic sources of international conflict and security policy.... Snyder has taken a major step toward ending the theoretical impoverishment of the study of the domestic sources of international conflict."― American Political Science ReviewOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Human Rights for Pragmatists

    Social Power in Modern Times

    by Jack Snyder ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    An innovative framework for advancing human rightsHuman rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists prioritize universal legal and moral norms, backed by the public shaming of violators, but in fact rights prevail only when they serve the interests of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Best Laid Plans

    Reissued

    by Jack Campbell, Maria V. Snyder ...
    Series Book 5 - Defending the Future
    No (battle) plan survives contact with the enemy. Winning a war has never been just a cold collection of numbers on a tally sheet. The Faiths always play their part in fifteen stories exploring when things go wrong. With stories by James Chambers, Nancy Jane Moore, Maria V. Snyder, Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), Bud Sparhawk, Peter Prellwitz, John L. French, Jeff Young, Keith R.A. DeCandido, David ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World

    Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism

    by Marlene Laruelle, Marlene Laruelle, Peter Rollberg, Peter Rollberg, Andreas Umland, Tudor Vlad, Lee B. Becker, Jack Snyder, Maria Lipman, Jonathan Becker, Marta Dyczok0, Oleg Manaev1, Barbara Junisbai2, Azamat Junisbai3, Nicola Ying Fry4, Kornely Kakachia5, Tamara Pataraia6, Michael Cecire7, Elisabeth Schimpfossl8, Ilya Yablokov9, Sarah Oates0, Luca Anceschi1, Abdulfattoh Shafiev2, Marintha Miles3, Olena Nikolayenko4, Navbahor Imamova5 ...
    Series Book 178 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and ranges from the political to entertainment and various artistic spheres. What role do market forces play in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Power and Progress

    International Politics in Transition

    by Jack Snyder ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    Jack Snyder is a leading American international relations scholar with an international reputation for his research on IR theory and US Foreign policy. This book collects many of his most important essays into a single volume.Exploring a liberal realist theory of international politics, the book is arranged around three key subject areas:Anarchy and Its EffectsThe Challenges of Democratic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Pierre Curie Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Pierre Curie

    by Jack Snyder ...
    This book is your ultimate Pierre Curie resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Pierre Curie's whole picture right away. Get countless Pierre Curie facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Pierre Curie Handbook is the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Post-Soviet Political Order

    Edited by Barnett Rubin, Jack Snyder ...
    Post-Soviet Political Order asks what is shaping the institutional pattern of the post-Soviet political order, what the new order will be like, what patterns of conflict are emerging, and what can be done about stabilising the region. In considering these questions the contributors converge on four common themes:* the institutional legacy of empire* the social processes unleashed by imperial ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Religion and International Relations Theory

    Edited by Jack Snyder ...
    Series Book 10 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Religious concerns stand at the center of international politics, yet key paradigms in international relations, namely realism, liberalism, and constructivism, barely consider religion in their analysis of political subjects. The essays in this collection rectify this. Authored by leading scholars, they introduce models that integrate religion into the study of international politics and connect ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Human Rights Futures

    Edited by Stephen Hopgood, Jack Snyder, Leslie Vinjamuri ...
    For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world. Human ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Ranking the World

    Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance

    Edited by Alexander Cooley, Jack Snyder ...
    Over the last decade, international rankings have emerged as a critical tool used by international actors engaged in global governance. State practices and performance are now judged by a number of high-profile indices, including assessments of their levels of corruption, quality of democracy, creditworthiness, media freedom, and business environment. However, these rankings always carry value ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century

    How the Past Informs the Present

    by Barbara Ann Chotiner, Linda J. Cook, Andrea Chandler, Gerald M. Easter, Michael S. Klecheski, Bruce Parrott, Cynthia Roberts, Mikael Sandberg, Kate Schecter0, Andrew Sherlock1, Thomas Sherlock2, Susan Gross Solomon3, Stephen Wegren4, Peter H. Solomon6 ...
    The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners that are highly relevant to contemporary political challenges. The democratic vision that accompanied the collapse of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and East Central Europe has been replaced by a range of authoritarian, semi-authoritarian and democratic regimes, and growing division ... Read more

    $102.09 USD