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“peter k forster”

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  • Multinational Military Intervention

    NATO Policy, Strategy and Burden Sharing

    by Stephen J. Cimbala, Peter K. Forster ...
    War, as Clausewitz reminds, is the most uncertain of human political and social activities. It also imposes burdens. In an alliance among states for the promotion of collective defense or security, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), burdens have to be shared. This study looks at the experience of the United States and other member states of NATO in four situations of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Exercise of Power

    American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World

    by Robert M. Gates ...
    From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 bestselling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world.Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity. Robert ... Read more

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  • Can Intervention Work?

    by Rory Stewart, Gerald Knaus ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan.“A fresh and critically important perspective on foreign interventions” (Washington Post), Can Intervention Work? distills Rory Stewart’s (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus’s remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • The Globalization of NATO

    by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Denis J. Halliday ...
    Spawned by the Cold War, NATOs existence was justified by Soviet threats to Western Europe. That raison dêtre is long gone with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Still NATO globalized relentlessly, moving from defensive to offensive under pretexts of humanitarianism, starting with Yugoslavia, then East Africa, Afghanistan, and most recently Libya, acting as an arm of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Restraint

    A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

    by Barry R. Posen ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint**, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics.** Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon

    Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

    by Shannon D. Beebe, Mary H. Kaldor ...
    The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed. It has seen livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation. Middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa have become cauldrons of violence and resentment. Tribalism, ethnic nationalism, and religious fundamentalism have flared dangerously, from Russia to Spain. The use of force is unlikely to help. What works when counter-insurgency ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Art of War in an Age of Peace

    U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextensionRussia and China are both believed to have “grand strategies”—detailed sets of national security goals backed by means, and plans, to pursue them. In the United States, policy makers have tried to articulate similar concepts but have failed to reach a widespread consensus ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • The Fog of Peace

    A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century

    by Jean-Marie Guehenno ...
    No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war. But the peacekeepers? Who tells their stories?At the beginning of the 1990s, the world exited the cold war and entered an era of great promise for peace and security. Guided by an invigorated United Nations, the international community set out to end conflicts that had flared into vicious civil wars and to unconditionally ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • NATO in Afghanistan

    The Liberal Disconnect

    by Sten Rynning ...
    The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATO's role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and explains how NATO at first faltered but then improved its operations to become a critical enabler ... Read more

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  • The Future of Land Warfare

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete?

    by Sarwar A. Kashmeri ...
    On September 5, 2009, the commanding officer of NATO's German troops in Afghanistan ordered a U.S. Air Force fighter to destroy two fuel trucks hijacked by theTaliban. Within hours, he was being investigated by German prosecutors for the murder of innocent civilians—collateral damage. Under German law its forces can only be deployed for peacekeeping; America might be at war in Afghanistan, but ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Present Dangers

    Crisis and Opportunity in Americas Foreign and Defense Policy

    Edited by Robert Kagan, William Kristol ...
    This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries ... Read more

    $12.29 USD