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By: Jonathan D. Rosen

ISBN: 9781498567329
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has created elements of fragility. This book consists of case studies that explore the nature of violence in countries of this region.


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By: Ian Fletcher

ISBN: 9781855327399
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The pinnacle of Wellington's achievement in the Peninsular, from the initial invasion in May to the final crushing victory at Vittoria and the advance into France.


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By: Bruce Quarrie

ISBN: 9781855322882
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Wesley Clark

ISBN: 9781586481391
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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This memoir from the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, now revised and updated, offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at how war is fought today


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By: Professor Nicholas Fotion

ISBN: 9780826492593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 prompted unprecedented public interest in the ethics of war, a debate that has raged furiously in the media, in politics and in the public consciousness ever since. This book explores the notion of developing an ethical theory that guides the behaviour of those who are at war.


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By: Professor Nicholas Fotion

ISBN: 9780826492609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 prompted unprecedented public interest in the ethics of war, a debate that has raged furiously in the media, in politics and in the public consciousness ever since. This book explores the notion of developing an ethical theory that guides the behaviour of those who are at war.


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By: Stephen Peter Rosen

ISBN: 9780691130569
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Human evolutionary history has affected the way we process the information we use to make decisions. The result is that human choices and calculations may be very different from those predicted by standard models of rational behavior. This notion is particularly true in the area of war and peace.


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By: Hein Goemans

ISBN: 9780691049441
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explores how various government leaders assess the cost of war in terms of domestic politics and their own postwar fates. This book develops the argument that two sides will wage war until both gain sufficient knowledge of the other's strengths and weaknesses so as to agree on the probable outcome of continued war.


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Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1980
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The war redefined the relationship of government to the individual and of individuals to each other, and it posed questions about the relationship between civilians and the military, between liberty and security, between special interests and national purpose.


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By: Jeremy Black

ISBN: 9780826471246
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book the author prophetically explores the realities of war in a globalised world where growing prosperity can increase the likelihood of conflict and American power is likely to be increasingly challenged.


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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1976
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: James Larry Taulbee

ISBN: 9781440838002
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: James Larry Taulbee

ISBN: 9798765132807
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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By: Konstantin Nossov

ISBN: 9781846032684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Elephants have been deployed as weapons for centuries, particularly in South and South-East Asia, where war elephants constituted the bulk of most armies in the region from antiquity right up to the 19th century. This book offers an insight into the incredible history of these 'living tanks'.


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By: Erik Lund

ISBN: 9780313310416
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of operational warfare in the Habsburg old regime, 1683-1740, which recreates everyday warfare and the lives of the generals conducting it, this book goes beyond the battlefield to examine the practical skills of war needed in an agricultural landscape of pastures, woods, and water.


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By: Helen Caldicott

ISBN: 9781595581143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: The New Press
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Talks about current affairs/political science.


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By: Michael A. Hennessy

ISBN: 9780275977092
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Combined, the essays demonstrate the centrality of 20th century war to the development of the modern state system, international jurisprudence, and contemporary society.

Donald Watt provides an overview of the use of the term war in its legal and practical sense.


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By: James M. Mayo

ISBN: 9780275928124
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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War Memorials as Political Landscape critiques the social meaning of war memorials and their role in political and historical landscapes.


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By: Henry Kopel

ISBN: 9781793627605
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Can genocide and terrorism ever be eliminated This book says yes. It demonstrates that such atrocities are driven mainly by mass ideological hate incitement. Hence ending the violence requires shutting down the incitement especially across the Middle East, where a tsunami of hate propaganda drives an epidemic of terrorism.


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By: Klaus Eugen Knorr

ISBN: 9780691626826
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this closely reasoned analysis of the various elements which constitute the latent military strength of nations the author takes up economic capacity, "the will to fight," and the administrative skill of government, and shows how they may be developed and evaluated in the contemporary setting. He has drawn on a wealth of historical material for


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By: Klaus Eugen Knorr

ISBN: 9780691653013
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Professor Gary Sheffield

ISBN: 9780826421869
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Deals with the subject of War Studies. This title covers such topics as: Strategic Theory and the History of War, The Uses and Abuses of Clausewitz (Eric Alterman), Victory Misunderstood - what the Gulf War Tells Us About the Future of Conflict (Stephen Biddle), Early American Ways of War - 1600-1815 (John Shy) and Was the Civil War a Total War.


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By: Professor Gary Sheffield

ISBN: 9780826420701
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Deals with the subject of War Studies. This title covers such topics as: Strategic Theory and the History of War, The Uses and Abuses of Clausewitz (Eric Alterman), Victory Misunderstood - what the Gulf War Tells Us About the Future of Conflict (Stephen Biddle), Early American Ways of War - 1600-1815 (John Shy) and Was the Civil War a Total War.


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By: Walter C. Opello

ISBN: 9781442268807
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The interplay between warfare, military technology, and state formation is the focus of this text. Theoretically grounded in the bellicist approach to the study of war and state, which posits that war is a normal part of human experience, the book argues that the threat of war by predatory neighbors has been the prime mover of state formation.

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