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  • The Price of Prestige

    Conspicuous Consumption in International Relations

    by Lilach Gilady ...
    If wars are costly and risky to both sides, why do they occur? Why engage in an arms race when it's clear that increasing one's own defense expenditures will only trigger a similar reaction by the other side, leaving both countries just as insecure—and considerably poorer? Just as people buy expensive things precisely because they are more expensive, because they offer the possibility of improved ... Read more

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  • Technology Matters

    Questions to Live With

    by David E. Nye ...
    Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Report From Iron Mountain

    by Leonard C. Lewin ...
    This satire from the 1960s makes a convincing claim to be a government document on the destructive effects of the post-Cold War peace on American society and economy and illustrates the fears of a society struggling with its own identity and purpose. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 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

  • Prisoners of Reason

    Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy

    by S. M. Amadae ...
    Is capitalism inherently predatory? Must there be winners and losers? Is public interest outdated and free-riding rational? Is consumer choice the same as self-determination? Must bargainers abandon the no-harm principle? Prisoners of Reason recalls that classical liberal capitalism exalted the no-harm principle. Although imperfect and exclusionary, modern liberalism recognized individual human ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Future War

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts? Will war be fought with greater or lesser humanity? Will it be played out in cyberspace and further afield in Low Earth Orbit? Or will it be fought more intensely still in the sprawling cities of the developing world, the grim black holes of social ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Strategy and History

    Essays on Theory and Practice

    by Colin S. Gray ...
    Series series Strategy and History
    Strategy and History comprises a selection of Professor Gray's key contributions to strategic debate over the past thirty years.These essays have been selected both because they had significant messages for contemporary controversies, and because they have some continuing relevance for today and the future. Each essay in this book is really about strategy in the modern world, and reflects the many ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Critical Education in the New Information Age

    by Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, Paul Willis ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change.The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more ... Read more

    $43.79 USD

  • International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Michael Mastanduno, G. Ikenberry ...
    What will the Asia-Pacific rim look like in the years ahead? What tools will international relations theorists need to understand the complex relationship among China, Japan, and the United States as the three powers shape the economic and political future of this crucial region?Some of the best and most innovative scholars in international relations and Asian area studies gather here with the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Power, Order, and Change in World Politics

    Edited by G. John Ikenberry ...
    Are there recurring historical dynamics and patterns that can help us understand today's power transitions and struggles over international order? What can we learn from the past? Are the cycles of rise and decline of power and international order set to continue? Robert Gilpin's classic work, War and Change in World Politics offers a sweeping and influential account of the rise and decline of ... Read more

    $38.59 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

  • Status in World Politics

    Edited by Deborah Welch Larson, William C. Wohlforth, T. V. Paul ...
    Rising powers such as Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Turkey are increasingly claiming heightened profiles in international politics. Although differing in other respects, rising states have a strong desire for recognition and respect. This pioneering volume on status features contributions that develop propositions on status concerns and illustrate them with case studies and aggregate data ... Read more

    $35.29 USD