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The risks of arms control and disarmament, how they can be reduced or eliminated, and the political implications of drastic disarmament are analyzed by eleven experts. Emphasis is placed on the development of techniques for disarming that are politically feasible and give reasonable assurance to each side that the other is not violating its obligat

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This textbook anthology of selected readings on pressing Middle East security concerns serves as an invaluable single-volume assessment of critical security issues in nations such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

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This textbook anthology of selected readings on pressing Middle East security concerns serves as an invaluable single-volume assessment of critical security issues in nations such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

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Examines what drives the different regional security strategies of four middle powers in the Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia. Drawing on the extant middle power literature, the authors argue that the regional security strategies of middle powers could take two forms: functional or normative.

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All chapters in this new edition are updated and a wide range of new topics are discussed, including the Syrian civil war, Russias annexation of Crimea and its intervention in East Ukraine, the global refugee crisis, Chinas military buildup, the impact of fracking on oil and gas markets, and rapidly evolving cyberwar capabilities.

(Hardback, Third Edition)

All chapters in this new edition are updated and a wide range of new topics are discussed, including the Syrian civil war, Russias annexation of Crimea and its intervention in East Ukraine, the global refugee crisis, Chinas military buildup, the impact of fracking on oil and gas markets, and rapidly evolving cyberwar capabilities.

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The AWACS debate represents one of the most critical events in the history of American diplomacy. It locked the Reagan administration and opponents of the AWACS in a fierce battle over American policy in the Middle East. Nicholas Laham looks at the political lessons to be drawn from the debate.

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Kane presents a critical study of the Reagan administrations public communication efforts to sell the presidents controversial foreign policy initiatives to the public and Congress. Kane challenges existing scholarship on Reagans communication and leadership to demonstrate the executive bargaining model and public diplomacy regime failed.

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Kane presents a critical study of the Reagan administrations public communication efforts to sell the presidents controversial foreign policy initiatives to the public and Congress. Kane challenges existing scholarship on Reagans communication and leadership to demonstrate the executive bargaining model and public diplomacy regime failed.

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This book provides a treatment of the program from 1947 through fiscal year 1996.

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This book provides a treatment of the program from 1947 through fiscal year 1996.

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This hard-hitting critique of US policy toward Latin America includes a historical sketch of US relations with individual countries.

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The compelling inside story of how Australia attempted to bully East Timor out of its rights to the lucrative oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea and the people, both heroes and villains, who played the game for a nation's future.

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Drawing insights from both international relations and comparative politics, this book shows that good strategic assessment depends on civil-military relations that encourage an easy exchange of information and an analysis of a state's own relative capabilities and strategic environment.

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Shaping U.S. Military Forces for the Asia-Pacific examines how U.S. Joint Forces should be used to face the threat of a rising China at a time when future crises and even wars are likely to be defined by relatively limited political stakes alongside competing nationalist identities.

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This failed soviet KGB operation in Canada tells the story of two double agents, one Soviet and one Canadian. The Soviet was betrayed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, captured by the KGB, imprisoned, and counted as dead until he reappeared 36 years later in a British embassy and traded back to Canada.

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This failed soviet KGB operation in Canada tells the story of two double agents, one Soviet and one Canadian. The Soviet was betrayed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, captured by the KGB, imprisoned, and counted as dead until he reappeared 36 years later in a British embassy and traded back to Canada.

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Scholars offer a broad perspective of the central themes in German-American relations in the 20th century and show how the current developments have evolved. This survey should help to fill a gap in the literature covering the relationships between Germany and the United States.

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In early 2009, at the start of a new administration in Washington, the Brookings Institution Press published The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change , offering a roadmap for a fresh approach to U.