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Soft Power
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Joseph S. Nye |
"Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently - and often incorrectly - by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is sof… |
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Fogs of war and peace
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Robert L. Dilworth |
This work focuses on continual global conflict and how American views are being obstructed through a concept referred to as "fogs of war" that distort reality. The authors discuss the root of these p… |
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Known and Unknown
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Donald Rumsfeld |
Donald Rumsfeld tells the story of his career serving as a Congressman, and working for several Presidents in different capacities including two stints as Secretary of Defense.
He describes Rumsf… |
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Awakening victory
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Michael E. Silverman |
"[The book] tells the story of this ... campaign through the eyes of the commander of the 3rd Battalion, who was right in the thick of the fight. The book also provides a description of the Iraqi ins… |
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High-value target
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Edmund J. Hull |
Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.S. and Yemeni interests. From 2001 to 2004, when Edmund J. Hull was the American ambassador t… |
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George W. Bush, the war on terror, and his critics
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Stephen F. Knott |
ix, 236 pages : 24 cm |
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America responds to terrorism
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Karen A. Feste |
"What policy is best for the United States to reduce the threat of Islamic extremist terrorism? Recent American presidents have applied alternative conflict resolution approaches. Clinton practiced c… |
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Al-Jazeera
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Mohammed El-Nawawy,Adel Iskandar,Adel Iskandar Farag |
"Al-Jazeera, the independent all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, has emerged as ambassador for the Arab world in the events following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Uni… |
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Captain America and the crusade against evil
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John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett |
"Arguing that the superhero is the antidemocratic counterpart of the classical "monomyth" described by Joseph Campbell, the authors show that the American version of the monomyth derives from tales o… |
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The terror courts
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Jess Bravin |
Offers the first inside account of America's continuing legal experiment at Guantanamo Bay--a permanent, offshore justice system designed to assure convictions by denying constitutional rights.
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Emergency presidential power
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Chris Edelson |
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Today we drop bombs, tomorrow we build bridges
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Gill, Peter |
"The 'War on Terror' has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unprecedented numbers, and civilians in war-torn coun… |
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Afghanistan 2001-2010
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Jean-Charles Jauffret |
275 p. : 24 cm |
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How to Win a Cosmic War
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Reza Aslan |
Lays out, for the first time, a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly term Jihadism. |
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America's secret war
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George Friedman |
THE STARTLING TRUTH BEHIND AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY AND WAR EFFORT IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND BEYOND--FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE COMPANY DUBBED BY BARRON'S AS "THE SHADOW CIA"Dubbed by Barron's as "The S… |
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The Good Fight
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Peter Beinart |
Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could … |
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Armed madhouse
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Greg Palast |
The "top journalist in America and the funniest" (Randi Rhodes, Air America), takes his previous New York Times bestseller a step further with hot undercover dispatches— hanging out the dirty underpa… |
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Law and the long war
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Benjamin Wittes |
Six years after the September 11 attacks, America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing not to Al Qaeda but to its own failure to construct a set of laws that will prot… |
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The Lessons of Afghanistan
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Anthony H. Cordesman |
"This study seeks to provide an initial assessment of the war in Afghanistan and the lessons to be drawn in terms of war fighting, intelligence, and force transformation. The Afghan conflict is anyth… |
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Letters from the Front Lines
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Stuart Franklin Platt |
Letters From the Front Lines is a remarkable account of the lives and experiences of Americans at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. This collection of correspondence preserves for future generations the e… |
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