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Abraham Lincoln and a new birth of freedom
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Howard Jones |
No one has fully examined Lincoln's impact on Civil War diplomacy, particularly as it derived from his constantly evolving views toward slavery and the way these ideas fitted into his concept of the … |
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Crusade
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James Carroll |
Publisher's description: With the words "this Crusade, this war on terror," George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency. And just as promptly, James Carroll-Boston Globe columnist, son of a … |
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Smokescreen
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Paul F. J. Aranas |
When is it legitimate for nations to use force?
The United States and NATO regularly employ the illegitimate use of force, using false arguments and a haze of purported altruistic justifications … |
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American public support for U.S. military operations from Mogadishu to Baghdad
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Eric V. Larson |
"Contains the technical appendixes for a study that describes American public opinion toward the use of military force in support of the global war on terrorism ... The main document is Eric V. Larso… |
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Intervention in world politics
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Hedley Bull |
This book is the best guide to the complexities of intervention now available. The issues raised by it will remain important and divisive for some time.'___ The Times Literary Suplement. |
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Armed state building
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Paul D.. Miller |
"Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns … |
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Presidential decisions for war
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Gary R. Hess |
"In 1950, Americans expected that the United States would wage another major war in the near future. Instead, over the course of the next half-century, they fought limited wars against minor powers: … |
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Virtual war
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Michael Ignatieff |
This latest work (portions of which have appeared in the New Yorker and elsewhere) completes an unplanned trilogy that took shape around current events. Like the trilogy's previous two titles (Blood … |
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Uses of force and Wilsonian foreign policy
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Frederick S. Calhoun |
Calhoun examines seven cases of intervention to test his argument that Wilson was the first president to use military force systematically to try to bring about certain kinds of political results in … |
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Making war, thinking history
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Jeffrey Record |
"In examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to use - or not use - force, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major application of U.S. force from the Korean War to … |
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Avoiding the slippery slope
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Thomas R. Mockaitis |
This Letort Paper covers U.S. military interventions in civil conflicts since the end of the Cold War. It defines intervention as the use of military force to achieve a specific objective (i.e., deli… |
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The politics of civil-military cooperation
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Christopher Ankersen |
Civil-military cooperation is a hallmark of contemporary military operations. Images of soldiers digging wells or helping to open schools characterize our view of what goes on in places such as Afgha… |
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Le nouvel humanisme militaire
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Noam Chomsky |
L'auteur part en croisade non seulement "contre la guerre du Kosovo mais aussi et surtout contre ce "droit d'intervention" que s'arrogent les puissances les plus riches de la planète" (##Le Monde dip… |
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Kosovo crossing
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David Fromkin |
ix, 210 p. : 23 cm |
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Nation-building
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Cynthia Ann Watson |
Nation-Building: A Reference Handbook offers an in-depth examination of the nation-building process with special focus on the late 20th century to the present. U.S. national security expert Cynthia W… |
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Fools' Crusade
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Diana Johnstone |
"In the endless series of United States military interventions, the 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the center left for war as an instrument of policy. Th… |
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Rogue States
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Noam Chomsky |
Nicht die diktatorisch regierten Entwicklungsländer, sondern die USA und ihre Verbündeten sind die eigentlichen Schurkenstaaten, so Noam Chomsky. Klassische Großmachtpolitik heißt immer auch, Gewalt … |
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Saving strangers
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Nicholas J. Wheeler |
"The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian int… |
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