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This book analyzes the influence of Italy's strategic culture on its foreign policy. It conducts an exploratory case study to show if hypotheses generated by the strategic culture approach can shed some light on the puzzling Italian behavior in the international arena, as Italy shows a less assertive foreign policy vis--vis other middle powers in the same rank.

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This book revisits the concept of strategic culture by examining the relationships between Russia and its neighbors in the east and west. The book explains how the competing Russian and western influences create innovative strategies, that display common regional characteristics of the different countries cultures.

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Using a model of foreign policy change that sees international crises as catalysts for change and domestic political conditions as the determinants for the scope and pace of change, Lantis (international relations and political science, The College of Wooster) explores German foreign policy restruct

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Bruce Berkowitz and Allan Goodman draw on historical analysis, interviews, and their own professional experience in the intelligence community to provide an evaluation of U.S. strategic intelligence.

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This book examines the need to bridge strategic intelligence and community collaboration. It explores intelligence collection, analysis, and operations as they relate to conflict public opinion and argues that for any intelligencecommunity collaboration to succeed, intelligence agencies must succeed in framing and setting public opinion.

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This text challenges the current thinking on strategic security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa by bringing the entire literature together on all of the regions and countries.

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This book explores the theory and practice of security conflict intervention by examining the Boko Haram security conflict. It provides pragmatic approaches to strategic security and suggests ways to enact political controls, military and police mobilization, intelligence management, and counterterrorism procedures to sustainably resolve conflict.

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This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attacks.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book argues, it was not the 9/11 attacks that transformed the international security environment.

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The first book to analyze strategic war termination from a policy perspective, Strategic War Termination explores present US policy on termination and recommends strategies for improving it.

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Bringing the subject of arms control into the arena of complex, multi-polar international relations, this text traces the history of agreements over weapons back to ancient times. It also examines five different strategies in arms control agreements in the post-Cold War period.

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Shows that concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. Developing theories of cooperation and escalation in territorial disputes, this book explains China's willingness to either compromise or use force.

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This book offers a thematic discussion of the key issues surrounding the rise of China and what that will mean to people outside China in the years ahead.

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A study of South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy. Ian Taylor offers a neo-gramscian interpretation of the global political economy and the importance of middle powers. He includes case studies of interaction with multilateral groupings and organizations.

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Integrating theory and case studies, this cogent text explores the processes and factors that shape foreign policy. Following a levels-of-analysis organization, Neack considers all elements that influence foreign policy, including the role of leaders, bargaining, national image, political culture, public opinion, the media, and nonstate actors.

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Integrating theory and case studies, this cogent text explores the processes and factors that shape foreign policy. Following a levels-of-analysis organization, Neack considers all elements that influence foreign policy, including the role of leaders, bargaining, national image, political culture, public opinion, the media, and nonstate actors.

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Examines the impact and development that the sugar industry had on U.S.-Dominican relations as the primary vehicle of reciprocal manipulation from 1958 to 1962.

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Supplanting Empires: Power Transitions Across Human History undertakes to systematically probe whether power transitions across human history are as disruptive and violent as conventional thinking would lead us to believe. The findings point to a generally smooth changeover from one empire or hegemon to the next.

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Surviving the Millennium traces the rise of the U.S.-Soviet antagonism from its roots in the U.S.-tsarist Russian relationship and critically reexamines U.S. containment strategy during the Cold War.

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Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here.

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Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here.

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Focusing on the Syria crisis, this book challenges the arguments in favour of the chemical weapons taboo, demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict. -- .