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“thomas waldman”

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  • Vicarious Warfare

    American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap

    by Thomas Waldman ...
    America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military’s exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase. Important strategic decisions are taken with minimal scrutiny or public engagement.This compelling ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Understanding Influence

    The Use of Statebuilding Research in British Policy

    by Thomas Waldman, Sultan Barakat ...
    The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile, post-conflict environments. Large-scale, externally-assisted statebuilding is a relatively new and distinct foreign policy domain having risen to the forefront of the international agenda as the negative consequences of state weakness have been ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • War, Clausewitz and the Trinity

    by Thomas Waldman ...
    Today, the ideas of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) are employed almost ubiquitously in strategic studies, military history and defence literatures, but often in a manner which distorts their true meaning. In this book, Waldman explores Clausewitz’s central theoretical device for understanding war - the ’remarkable trinity’ of politics, chance and passion. By situating the great Prussian in ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

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    Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range of firearms was fifty yards, much of what he had to say remains relevant today. Michael Howard explains Clausewitz's ideas in terms both of his ... Read more

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  • Design History and the History of Design

    by John A. Walker ...
    An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design.Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have ... Read more

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  • How to Read Foucault's Discipline and Punish

    by Anne Schwan, Stephen Shapiro ...
    Series series How to Read Theory
    Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid ... Read more

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  • The European Identity

    Historical and Cultural Realities We Cannot Deny

    by Stephen Green ...
    Series series Haus Curiosities
    What—if anything—do the twenty-eight member states of the European Union have in common? Amidst all the variety, can one even speak of a European identity? In this timely book, Stephen Green explores these questions and argues for the necessity of the European voice in the international community.Green points out that Europeans can readily define the differences that separate them from others ... Read more

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  • Crack Capitalism

    by John Holloway ...
    How can we rebel against the capitalist system? John Holloway argues that by creating, cracks, fractures and fissures that forge spaces of rebellion and disrupt the current economic order.John Holloway, author of the groundbreaking Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate among activists and scholars about the most effective methods of fighting capitalism from within. ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of the Great War

    Ninety Years On

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    In late 2007 and early 2008, world-renowned historians gathered in Kansas City for a series of public forums on World War I. Each of the five events focused on a particular topic and featured spirited dialogue between its prominent participants.In spontaneous exchanges, the eminent scholars probed each other’s arguments, learned from each other, and provided insights not just into history but also ... Read more

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  • Bruno Latour

    Reassembling the Political

    by Graham Harman ...
    Series series Modern European Thinkers
    Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's ... Read more

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  • Military Strategy

    A Global History

    by Jeremy Black ...
    A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 yearsStrategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact ... Read more

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  • What is Military History?

    by Stephen Morillo ...
    Series series What is History?
    The third edition of What is Military History? has been thoroughly updated, and includes a new bibliography and new case studies on naval warfare and the origins of war, as well as expanded sections on historiography, environmental history and world history.This popular textbook showcases a field that encompasses not only accounts of campaigns and battles, but includes a wide range of perspectives ... Read more

    $18.00 USD