Security (National & International)
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Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
$28.99 Add to cartA concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have–and have not–incorporated ethics into their foreign policy.
Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and f- Author: Nye, Joseph S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190935960
- Language: English
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
$22.00 Add to cartA Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive
- Author: Bamford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 140003034X
- Language: English
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism” (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever alter… [more below]
- Author: Danner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1476747776
- Language: English
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Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramat… [more below]
- Author: Mendez, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0743428536
- Language: English
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Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation Is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists
$34.99 Add to cartNever have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people h… [more below]
- Author: Cronin, Audrey Kurth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019088214X
- Language: English
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La Verdadera Noche de Iguala / The Real Night of Iguala
$16.95 Read moreAnte acontecimientos como el del 26 de septiembre de 2014, ning?n pa?s puede seguir adelante sin conocer la verdad a la que tienen derecho las v?ctimas y la sociedad.
Los hechos de Iguala nos obligan a… [more below]- Author: Hern?ndez, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 6073149263
- Language: Spanish
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Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
$20.95 Add to cartThe United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy th
- Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Author: Posen, Barry R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1501700723
- Language: English
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
$29.95 Add to cartNearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomac, the United States suffered the sin… [more below]
- Author: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393060411
- Language: English
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
$22.95 Add to cartThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geop
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 023118848X
- Language: English
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Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars
$16.95 Add to cartWhy do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are ut
- Author: Trisko Darden, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1626166668
- Language: English
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
$31.65 Add to cartSpeak softly and carry a big stick Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry bu… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Eliot A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1541617274
- Language: English
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Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
$32.95 Add to cartFlying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debate
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Hankins, Michael W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501760653
- Language: English
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The Future of War: A History
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this u… [more below]
- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 154174277X
- Language: English
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Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
$20.00 Read moreIn Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conv
- Author: Jones, Seth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132405056X
- Language: English
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Strategic Warning Intelligence: History, Challenges, and Prospects
$38.95 Add to cartJohn A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first century. Strategic warning-the process of long-range analysis to alert seni
- Author: Gentry, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1626166552
- Language: English
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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
$40.99 Add to cartA new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.
The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly… [more below]- Author: Mandelbaum, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197621791
- Language: English
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America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
$21.99 Add to cartAmerica has a long history of diplomacy-ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker-now is your chance to see the impact… [more below]
- Author: Zoellick, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1538712377
- Language: English
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From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin
$26.95 Read moreThe history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its center. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov show, however, that the real driver from early in the Russian R
- Author: Felshtinsky, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1783342447
- Language: English
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
$17.95 Add to cartThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geop
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0231188498
- Language: English
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
$20.00 Add to cartA top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare–one in which a digital attack can… [more below]
- Author: Zetter, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0770436196
- Language: English
