Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


Serie m´´as popular en Estados Unidos

1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “david m barnes”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Ethics of Military Privatization

    The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon

    de David M. Barnes ...
    Series series Military and Defence Ethics
    This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic concerns. A critical assessment of the ethical dimensions of military privatization in general is missing. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

La gente que leyó esto también disfrutó

  • Corporate Warriors

    The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

    de P. W. Singer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The International Arms Trade

    de Rachel Stohl, Suzette Grillot ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to cause a deadly and current threat - one responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.This succinct and accessible new ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD

  • The Deadly Life of Logistics

    Mapping Violence in Global Trade

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Fifth Estate

    Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

    The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Of War and Law

    de David Kennedy ...
    Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death. As a result, the battlespace is as legally regulated as the rest of modern life. In Of War and Law, David Kennedy ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • Maritime Private Security

    Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century

    Edición de Patrick Cullen, Claude Berube ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security companies in the maritime sector.The private security industry continues to evolve after its renaissance over the past few decades, first in Africa, and later in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite this, little academic work has been done to date on the role of private security in the maritime environment. This lacuna ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Defence Policy of Nigeria: Capability and Context

    A Reader

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Victory for Hire

    Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness

    de Molly Dunigan ...
    At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that gap, Molly Dunigan reveals how the increasing tendency to outsource missions to PSCs has significant ramifications for both tactical and long-term ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The End of Grand Strategy

    US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Managing American Hegemony

    Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance

    de Kori N. Schake ...
    Kori Schake examines key questions about the United States' position of power in the world, including, Why is the United States' power so threatening? Is it sustainable? Does military force still matter? How can we revise current practices to reduce the U.S. cost of managing the system? What accounts for the United States' stunning success in the round of globalization that swept across the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus