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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan d caverley”
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  • Democratic Militarism

    Voting, Wealth, and War

    by Jonathan D. Caverley ...
    Series Book 131 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Why are democracies pursuing more military conflicts, but achieving worse results? Democratic Militarism shows that a combination of economic inequality and military technical change enables an average voter to pay very little of the costs of large militaries and armed conflict, in terms of both death and taxes. Jonathan Caverley provides an original statistical analysis of public opinion and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Security Studies in a New Era of Maritime Competition

    Edited by Jonathan D. Caverley, Peter Dombrowski ...
    How do two conventionally powerful, nuclear armed, but commercially oriented great powers, reliant on sea lanes and global maritime infrastructure, engage in a long-term strategic rivalry? When do such competitions lead to crisis instability and even war? This book presents a research agenda using a variety of methods to explore this unique competitive environment for China and the United States ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Going to War?

    Trends in Military Interventions

    by Stéfanie von Hlatky, H. Christian Breede ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies
    Going to War? investigates the reasons why countries enter conflicts by considering the depth and complexity of issues surrounding military deployments. Showing how such conditions affect future decisions about the use of force, contributors to this volume study recent experiences with military interventions - such as regional flash points, the global financial crisis, and public weariness - to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Charlie Foxtrot

    Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada

    by Kim Richard Nossal ...
    Series Book 5 - Point of View
    Defence expert Kim Richard Nossal presents a damning indictment of defence procurement in Canada, and shows how to fix it.Defence procurement in Canada is a mess. New equipment is desperately needed for the Canadian Armed Forces, but most projects are behind schedule, over budget, or both. Not only has mismanagement cost Canadian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, it has also deprived ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solferino 21

    Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century

    by Hugo Slim ...
    Warfare is at a tipping point today as it passes from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerized warfare and a renewed risk of "big war" between global powers. Humanitarian response is also developing fast as "big aid" demands more and more money and tries to digitalize and prepare for new needs in long wars and escalating climate crisis. This book starts with the founding moment ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • State Crime

    Governments, Violence and Corruption

    by Penny Green, Tony Ward ...
    What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime, avoidable 'natural' disasters, torture, criminal policing, war crimes and genocide.Penny Green and Tony Ward put forward a powerful argument ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Echidna Strategy

    Australia's Search for Power and Peace

    by Sam Roggeveen ...
    In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to defend itself without American help, but this doesn't need to cost more.The truth, which no Australian political leader is willing to confront, is that America's security is not threatened by China's rise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Economics

    War, Disaster, and the Global Aid Market

    by Gilles Carbonnier ...
    While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's book is the first to present humanitarian economics to a wide readership, defining its parameters, explaining its utility and convincing us why it ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Coercion

    The Power to Hurt in International Politics

    Edited by Kelly M. Greenhill, Peter Krause ...
    From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether implicitly or explicitly) upon assumptions and precepts formulated in-and predicated upon-politics in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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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

    $44.99 USD

  • Twenty-First Century Seapower

    Cooperation and Conflict at Sea

    Edited by Peter Dutton, Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order.Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced naval capabilities. The emergence of rising naval powers is a cause for concern, as the potential for ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The New Citizen Armies

    Israel’s Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Stuart A. Cohen ...
    Series series BESA Studies in International Security
    This edited book constitutes the first detailed attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society.Focusing primarily on deviations from the traditional norm of universal military service, the book compares the emergence of a new type of "citizen army" in Israel ... Read more

    $70.99 USD