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“michael john williams”

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  • Understanding International Security

    Theory and Practice

    by Michael John Williams, James Wesley Hutto, Asli Peker Dogra ...
    International security is an ambiguous concept – it has many meanings to many people. Without an idea of how the world works, or how security is defined and achieved, it is impossible to create effective policies to provide security. This textbook clarifies the concept of security, the debates around it, how it is defined, and how it is pursued. Tracking scholarly approaches within security ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare

    The Quest for Humanity in Conflict

    by Stephanie Carvin, Michael John Williams ...
    Founded and rooted in Enlightenment values, the United States is caught between two conflicting imperatives when it comes to war: achieving perfect security through the annihilation of threats; and a requirement to conduct itself in a liberal and humane manner. In order to reconcile these often clashing requirements, the US has often turned to its scientists and laboratories to find strategies and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Future of Power

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **From the scholar who coined the term “soft power,” a bracing examination of what it means to lead in the digital age“Nye is a master of his field at the height of his powers.” —The Washington Post**Power evolves. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, unsurpassed in military strength and ownership of world resources, the United States was indisputably the most powerful nation in the world ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Collapse of Global Liberalism

    And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order

    by Philip Pilkington ...
    In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of centre-left and right.Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying. It is based on a ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • International Security

    The Contemporary Agenda

    by Roland Dannreuther ...
    International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary examples, from the Iraq war to the rise of China, it is an essential guide for students and policy makers seeking to understand the theoretical and empirical debates over the fast-changing nature of international security today.The ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Foreign Affairs Strategy

    Logic for American Statecraft

    by Terry L. Deibel ...
    This is a book on how to think - strategically - about foreign policy. Focusing on American foreign policy, this book discusses the national interest as a concept in strategic logic and describes how to select objectives that will take advantage of opportunities to promote interests, while protecting them against threats. It also discusses national power and influence, as well as the political, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Security Studies

    An Introduction

    Edited by Paul D Williams, Matt McDonald ...
    Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda.This new edition has been completely revised and updated, to cover major developments such as COVID-19, the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Negotiation and Conflict Management

    Essays on Theory and Practice

    by I. William Zartman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order.Responding to a lack of useful conceptualization for the analysis of international negotiation, Zartman has developed an ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Power in the Global Information Age

    From Realism to Globalization

    by Joseph S. Nye Jr. ...
    One of the most brilliant and influential international relations scholars of his generation, Joseph S. Nye Jr. is one of the few academics to have served at the very highest levels of US government. This volume collects together many of his key writings for the first time as well as new material, and an important concluding essay which examines the relevance of international relations in ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

    Edited by Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Thierry Balzacq ...
    This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. This second edition has been ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The End of the West?

    Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order

    Edited by Jeffrey J. Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Risse ...
    The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies, largely due to the deployment of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the commitment of national forces to the occupation of Iraq. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of contention. The End of the West? addresses some basic questions: Are we witnessing a ... Read more

    $22.79 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

    $38.99 USD