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  • Silent Coup of the Guardians

    The Influence of U.S. Military Elites on National Security

    by Todd Andrew Schmidt ...
    Series series Studies in Civil-Military Relations
    Growing political radicalization and polarization in American government has created a scarcity of civilian leadership, knowledge, expertise, and power. Political rivals and adversaries, too busy combating each other, have abandoned the helm of the ship of state, setting reason, compromise, intellectual curiosity, and effective governing adrift. A faction of exceptionally capable and influential ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Think Tanks in America

    by Thomas Medvetz ...
    A revealing look at the rise of these influential institutions, and the effect they've had on the United States.Think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of research do they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Deadly Life of Logistics

    Mapping Violence in Global Trade

    by Deborah Cowen ...
    In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war.In The Deadly Life of Logistics, ... Read more

    $17.99 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

    $63.19 USD

  • US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

    The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower

    by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Mackubin Thomas Owens ...
    Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States ... Read more

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  • The Fifth Estate

    Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance

    by James G. McGann ...
    What role do think tanks play in shaping public policy and public discourse in the United States?In The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance, James G. McGann illustrates how policymakers have come to value the independent analysis and advice provided by think tanks and why it has become one of the defining characteristics of the American political system. Drawing on case ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry

    by Harold L. Wilensky ...
    This prize-winning, foundational book — now in its new ebook edition featuring a 2015 Foreword by Neil Smelser — focuses on the structural and ideological roots of intelligence failures (both informational and analytical) found in government, industry, and other institutions. It provides groundbreaking theory and structure to the analysis of decision-making processes and their breakdowns, as well ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defence Policy of Nigeria: Capability and Context

    A Reader

    by Charles Quarker Dokubo, Celestine Oyom Bassey ...
    This Reader provides a structurally coherent explanation and review of the magnified role conception and organizational task expansion for the Nigerian military establishment in foreign policy. It argues essentially that one of the most problematic and intractable areas of public policy in Nigeria since the Civil War concerns the development of a professional defence establishment adequate to meet ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Rise of the Military Welfare State

    by Jennifer Mittelstadt ...
    This study of US military benefits " offers a disturbing view of the armed forces as a high-value target in political clashes over public assistance" ( The Nation).Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to "Be All That You Can Be." But beneath the recruitment slogans, the army promised volunteers something more tangible: a social ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Grand Strategy

    US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century

    by Simon Reich, Peter Dombrowski ...
    In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America's military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Game Changer

    The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security

    Edited by Jonathan Paquin, Patrick James ...
    The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US policy makers focused less on how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and more on security and sovereignty.Security experts tend to view the events that followed within a bilateral framework. Game Changer broadens the canvas examining how America’s desire to keep its two borders closed ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition

    Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the basic question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an effect is consistently ignored. Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation and many journalists ... Read more

    $31.49 USD