Do some technologies provoke war? Do others promote peace? Offense-defense theory contends that technological change is an important cause of conflict: leaders will be tempted to launch wars when they believe innovation favors attackers over defenders. Offense-defense theory is perhaps best known from the passionate and intricate debates about first-strike capability and deterrence stability during the cold war, but it has deeper historical roots, remains a staple in international relations theorizing, and drives modern arms control policymaking.
In War and the Engineers, the first book systematically to test the logical and empirical validity of offense-defense theory, Keir A. Lieber examines the relationships among politics, technology, and the causes of war. Lieber's cases explore the military and political implications of the spread of railroads, the emergence of rifled small arms and artillery, the introduction of battle tanks, and the nuclear revolution. Lieber incorporates the new historiography of World War I, which draws on archival materials that only recently became available, to challenge many common beliefs about the conflict. The author's central conclusion is that technology is neither a cause of international conflict nor a panacea; instead, power politics remains paramount.
Описание: This book critically examines shareholder primacy and its principal manifestation in corporate law: the exclusive shareholder franchise. It presents a new model of corporate governance, fully consistent with economic theory of the firm and democratic participation theory, that supports shared board representation between shareholders and employees.
Автор: Haun Phil, Jackson Colin, Schultz Tim Название: Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare Since the Cold War ISBN: 1108839223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108839228 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 25990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining post-Cold War conflicts against state and non-state actors where air power played a major and sometimes decisive role, this book analyzes the effectiveness of manned and unmanned aircraft against global terrorism and in conventional, high-tech air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against ISIS.
Автор: Ahlskog, Jonas (abo Akademi University, Finland) Название: Primacy of method in historical research ISBN: 0367642905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367642907 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How does history relate to the past? In contrast to the claim that the past for history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and retrospective relations, this book argues that historical relations to the past are irreducible products of the logical commitments of history as method.
Автор: Mark Simpson; Tony Hawkins Название: The Primacy of Regime Survival ISBN: 303010219X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030102197 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe’s fragility, this research highlights the economic aspects of Zimbabwe’s regression flowing from prolonged mismanagement of the economy which has served to consolidate the rule of the country’s political and economic elite. The Zimbabwean experience offers unique insights into the economic mensions of regime preservation. This book situates the Zimbabwe experience within the context of wider debates within the field of development studies, and the international community’s response to such situations.
Описание: The authors of this report explore notional international and defense strategies that China might employ to outcompete the United States. The authors created these strategies using Chinese political processes, concepts, policies, and national goals. Their purposes are to support U.S. planning and decisionmaking, educate readers about China's strategy and policymaking process, and spur discussion about the stakes and nature of the competition.
Описание: This book explains the period of great power peace in the last fifty years and outlines the path to perpetuating it. Drawing on the Realist tradition and challenging conventional wisdom about the causes of American primacy, Baron explores contributions to peace made by the balance of power, nuclear weapons, democracy and globalization.
This book is focused on explaining the grand strategic behavior of the United States from the Founding of the Republic to the Trump administration. To do so it employs a neoclassical realist framework to argue that while systemic change explains the broad evolution of US grand strategy, the precise shape and content of the grand strategies pursued has been conditioned by domestic political culture and interests. The book argues that distinct political cultures of statecraft (Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian and Wilsonian) have acted as permissive filters through which policy-makers have interpreted and responded to systemic stimuli making some grand strategy choices more likely than others in the pursuit of national security. The book demonstrates that while primacist grand strategies were facilitated by the predominance from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century of the vindicationist Hamiltonian and Wilsonian forms of statecraft, the costs of primacy have now stimulated the resurgence of the long dormant, exemplarist Jeffersonian and Jacksonian forms of statecraft under the Obama and Trump administrations, resulting in grand strategies that seek to either manage or stave off decline in America's relative power position.
Автор: Peacocke Christopher Название: The Primacy of Metaphysics ISBN: 0198835574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198835578 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12231.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, and the ways you think about them? Christopher Peacocke argues that meaning is never prior to metaphysics - to the nature of the world. He shows that this view holds for a wide range of topics, including magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects such as numbers.
Описание: Going beyond solely legal analysis, juxtaposing legal principles and argumentation with economic theoretic approaches and more importantly, real-life examples, the book is accessible to both professionals and academics working within the fields of business, economics, corporate governance and corporate law.
Описание: This book critically examines shareholder primacy and its principal manifestation in corporate law: the exclusive shareholder franchise. It presents a new model of corporate governance, fully consistent with economic theory of the firm and democratic participation theory, that supports shared board representation between shareholders and employees.
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