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Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan: Fifth Edition
The Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan was long considered a seminal book for Afghanistan studies. This fifth edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The ...
Maritime Strategy and Naval Innovation: Technology, Bureaucracy, and the Problem of Change in the Age of Competition
"The essays in this book highlight the connective tissue between maritime strategy and naval innovation. The cases and perspectives in this collection of essays by some of today’s foremost strategic thinkers are both retrospective and prospective and carry on an intellectual tradition established by the likes of Alfred Thayer Mahan."
When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon
The recent influx of Syrian refugees has stimulated domestic political action against the Jordanian and Lebanese governments. That is the dramatic argument at the heart of Anne Marie Baylouny's When Blame Backfires.
Countering Russian Cyber Operations: At the Boundaries of Conflict
Russian Cyber Operations provides a critical framework for determining whether Russian cyber campaigns and incidents rise to the level of armed conflict or operate at a lower level as a component of competition.
Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China
In Mao's Third Front, Covell Meyskens shows how the militarization of Chinese industrialization linked millions of everyday lives to the global Cold War, merging global geopolitics with local change.