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U.S. Security and
Foreign Policy............................ 2-4
Conflict and Politics ............... 5-6
Global Security.......................... 6-7
Middle East Security....................8
Asian Security............................9-11
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2 U.S. SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY
My Journey at the
Nuclear Brink
William J. Perry
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is
a continuation of William J. Perrys
efforts to keep the world safe from
a nuclear catastrophe. Decades of
experience and special access to
top-secret knowledge of strategic
nuclear options have given Perry
a unique, and chilling, vantage
point from which to conclude that
nuclear weapons endanger our
security rather than securing it.
A significant and insightful memoir
and a necessary read.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman,
U.S. News & World Report
In clear, detailed, powerful prose,
Perry tells the story of his seventy-
year experience of the nuclear age.
Beginning with his firsthand
encounter with survivors living
amid vast wastes of fused rubble
in the aftermath of World War II,
his account takes us up to today
when Perry is on an urgent
mission to alert us to the dangerous
nuclear road we are traveling.
Jerry Brown,
Governor of California,
The New York Review of Books
276 pages, 2015
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Courting Science
Securing the Foundation for a
Second American Century
Damon V. Coletta
In Courting Science, Damon V.
Coletta offers a novel explanation
for the decline of American leader-
ship in world affairs. In an era of
rising challengers to Americas lead
in the international order and an
increasingly globalized civil society, a
Scientific State has a better chance
of extending its dominance. In order
to draw closer to this ideal, though,
the United States must have a strategy
that scrutinizes how tightly it con-
strains, how narrowly it directs, and
how far it trusts American scientists.
If given the opportunity, scientists
have the potential to lead a second
American Century through domestic
science and technology policy, inter-
national diplomacy, and transnational
networks for global governance.
A fresh interpretation of the role of
science and technology in power.
Through excellent case studies,
[Coletta] explores the function of
science in the international system
with interesting new lenses, compel-
lingly linking political theory, history
of science, and international relations.
Tom Mahnken,
Senior Research Professor,
Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies
248 pages, 2016
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Forging the Sword
Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army
Benjamin M. Jensen
Since 1945, the U.S. Army has
rewritten its capstone doctrine
manual, Operations, fourteen times.
Collectively, this reflects a significant
evolution in how the Army ap-
proaches warfaremaking the U.S.
Army a crucial and unique case of a
modern land power that is capable of
change. Forging the Sword conducts
a comparative historical process-
tracing of doctrinal reform in the
U.S. Army. It argues that change
in military organizations requires
incubators, designated subunits
established outside the normal
bureaucratic hierarchy, to provide a
safe space for experimentation and
the construction of new operational
concepts. Then, change requires
advocacy networks that champion
new concepts, connect different
constituents, and inject the concepts
developed in incubators.
A bold exploration of an important
but under-analyzed topic. Jensens
thoughtful conclusions hold impor-
tant lessons both for the U.S. Army
and complex professions in general.
Steven Metz,
Director of Research, U.S. Army War
College Strategic Studies Institute
216 pages, 2016
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The Polythink Syndrome
U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions
on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran,
Syria, and ISIS
Alex Mintz and Carly Wayne
The leading concept of group
dynamics, groupthink, explains that
groups make sub-optimal decisions
due to their desire for conformity
and uniformity over dissent, lead-
ing to a failure to consider other
relevant possibilities. But presi-
dential advisory groups are often
fragmented and divisive. This book
therefore scrutinizes polythink, a
group decision-making dynamic
whereby different members in a
decision-making unit espouse a
plurality of opinions and divergent
policy prescriptions, resulting
in a disjointed decision-making
process or even decision paralysis.
Analyzing eleven U.S. national
security decisions, the authors
address implications of the
polythink phenomenon, including
how to avoid or overcome it.
A major contribution to foreign
policy analysis.
Patrick James,
University of Southern California
200 pages, 2015
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U.S. SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY
Regional Missile Defense
from a Global Perspective
Edited by Catherine McArdle
Kelleher and Peter Dombrowski
Regional Missile Defense from a
Global Perspective explains the
origins, evolution, and implications
of the regional approach to missile
defense that has emerged since the
presidency of George H. W. Bush,
and has culminated with the missile
defense decisions of President Barack
Obama. The volume is intended
to stimulate renewed debates in
strategic studies and public policy
circles over the contribution of
regional and national missile defense
to global security. Written from a
range of perspectives by practitioners
and academics, the book provides
a rich source for understanding the
technologies, history, diplomacy,
and strategic implications of the
gradual evolution of American
missile defense plans.
During this time of heightened risk
of conflict, the United States must
continue to pursue regional missile
defense for its own security. This book
is a must-read for policymakers wish-
ing to understand the role of missile
defense in a new strategic age.
Stephen J. Hadley,
National Security Advisor to
President George W. Bush,
20052009
328 pages, 2015
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 The Case for U.S. Nuclear
Weapons in the 21st Century
Brad Roberts
This book is a counter to the
conventional wisdom that the
United States can and should
do more to reduce both the
role of nuclear weapons in its
security strategies and the number
of weapons in its arsenal. Drawing
on his experience in the making
and implementation of U.S. policy
in the Obama administration,
Brad Roberts argues that the case
against nuclear weapons has not
been informed by the experience
of the United States since the Cold
War in trying to adapt deterrence
to a changed world, and to create
the conditions that would allow
further significant changes to U.S.
nuclear policy and posture.
Brad Roberts brilliantly ana-
lyzes todays security landscape,
the theories of victory by which
nuclear-armed adversaries hope
to prevail against a convention-
ally superior United States, and
what America needs to do about
it. A must-read for scholars and
practitioners who need to manage
21st-century nuclear realities.
Linton Brooks,
Former Administrator, National
Nuclear Security Administration
352 pages, 2015
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4 U.S. SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY
Isolate or Engage
Adversarial States, US Foreign
Policy, and Public Diplomacy
Geoffrey Wiseman
Isolate or Engage systematically
examines U.S. diplomatic relations
with nine intensely adversarial
statesChina, Cuba, Iran, Libya,
North Korea, U.S.S.R./Russia,
Syria, Venezuela, and Vietnam. In
these circumstances, public diplo-
macythe means by which the
U.S. engages with citizens in other
countries so they will push their
own governments to adopt more
favorable views of U.S. foreign poli-
ciesbecomes extremely important.
The book examines the role of both
traditional and public diplomacy
with adversarial states and reviews
the costs and benefits each.
Geoffrey Wiseman, a leading scholar
in diplomatic studies, astutely captures
a central dilemma for diplomats and
policymakers dealing with adversarial
states and offers sage advice about the
role of public diplomacy in these situa-
tions. Very highly recommended.
Pauline Kerr,
Director of Studies and
Emeritus Fellow, Asia-Pacific
College of Diplomacy,
Australian National University
328 pages, 2015
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Coercion, Survival, and War
Why Weak States Resist the
United States
Phil Haun
Great powers have the capability to
coerce weak states by threatening
their survivalbut not vice versa.
It is therefore the great power that
decides whether to escalate a
conflict into a crisis by adopting a
coercive strategy. In practice, how-
ever, the coercive strategies of the
U.S. have frequently failed. Coercion,
Survival and War chronicles 30
crises involving the U.S. from 1918
to 2003. The U.S. chose coercive
strategies in 23 of these cases, but
failed half of the time: most often
because the more powerful U.S.
made demands that threatened
the very survival of the weak state,
causing it to resist as long as it had
the means to do so. He concludes
that, when coercion is preferred to
brute force, there are clear limits
as to what can be demanded.
288 pages, 2015
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The Politics of Weapons
Inspections
Assessing WMD Monitoring
and Verification Regimes
Nathan E. Busch and
Joseph F. Pilat
Given recent controversies over
suspected WMD programs in
proliferating countries, there is an
increasingly urgent need for effec-
tive monitoring and verifications
regimesthe mechanisms intended
to clarify the status of WMD pro-
grams in suspected proliferators.
The Politics of Weapons Inspections
examines the successes, failures,
and lessons that can be learned
from past WMD monitoring and
verification regimes in order to help
determine how best to establish and
maintain such regimes in the future.
In addition to examining these
regimes technological, political, and
legal contexts, Nathan E. Busch and
Joseph F. Pilat reevaluate the track
record of monitoring and verifica-
tion in the historical cases of South
Africa, Libya, and Iraq. They further
apply the lessons learned from these
cases to contemporary controversies
over suspected or confirmed pro-
grams in North Korea, Iran, and Syria.
400 pages, March 2017
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Trust, but Verify
The Politics of Uncertainty and
the Transformation of the Cold
War Order, 19691991
Edited by Martin Klimke,
Reinhild Kries, and
Christian F. Ostermann
Trust, but Verify uses trustwith
its emotional and predictive
aspectsto explore international
relations in the second half of the
Cold War. The dtente of the 1970s
led to the development of some
limited trust between the United
States and the Soviet Union, but it
also created uncertainty in other
areas, especially on the part of
smaller states that depended on
their alliance leaders for protection.
The contributors to this volume
look at how the emotional side of
the conflict affected the dynamics
of various Cold War relations.
An insightful explanation for one
of the great puzzles of recent history:
how the Cold War, a seemingly
indestructible international regime,
came to an end. The essays take
seriously the mission of relating
the political, economic, and cultural
factors to emotions history.
Frank Costigliola,
University of Connecticut
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
HISTORY PROJECT
272 pages, 2016
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Classical Geopolitics
A New Analytical Model
Phil Kelly
Geopolitics is the study of how the
projection of power (ideological,
cultural, economic, or military)
is effected and affected by the
geographic and political landscape
in which it operates. Despite the
real world relevance of geopolitics,
a common understanding of what
classical geopolitics is and how it
works still lies beyond the reach of
both researchers and practitioners.
In Classical Geopolitics, Phil Kelly
attempts to build a common theo-
retical model, incorporating a host of
variables that reflect the complexity
of the modern geopolitical stage.
He then analyzes thirteen historical
events stretching from the Pelopon-
nesian War to the contemporary
diplomacy of South America to test
the efficacy of his model as a compre-
hensive geopolitical analytical tool.
This is an important work. Many
teachers of IR tend to dismiss geopoli-
tics as having been overtaken by tech-
nology, but Phil Kellys analysis shows
how mistaken they are. He makes
a strong case for the applicability of
geopolitical analysis to the study of IR,
foreign policy, and strategic analysis.
Mackubin Owens,
Institute of World Politics
224 pages, 2016
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CONFLICT AND POLITICS 5
 Busted Sanctions
Explaining Why Economic
Sanctions Fail
Bryan R. Early
Powerful countries like the United
States regularly employ economic
sanctions as a tool for promoting
their foreign policy interests. Yet
economic sanctions achieve their
goals less than a third of the time.
The costs of these failed sanctions
policies can be significant, requiring
an explanation for such a high
failure rate. Busted Sanctions seeks
to provide this explanation and
reveals that the primary cause of
this failure is third-party spoilers,
or sanctions busters, who undercut
sanctioning efforts.
[I]t would be a grave mistake to take
this thoughtful, penetrating, and supple
book just as an argument against using
sanctions as an instrument of foreign
policy. It is in fact a primer filled with
hard facts and harder lessons from
past effortsand mistakesdesigned
to show how this process can actually
become more effective and productive
of the intended result.
Martin Rubin,
Washington Times
288 pages, 2015
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6 CONFLICT AND
POLITICS
Arms and Influence
U.S. Technology Innovations and
the Evolution of International
Security Norms
Jeffrey S. Lantis
Arms and Influence explores the
complex relationship between
technology, policymaking, and
international norms. Modern
technological innovations such as
the atomic bomb, armed unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs), and advanced
reconnaissance satellites have fos-
tered fascinating debates about the
boundaries of international norms
and legitimate standards of behavior
in areas such as self-defense, sover-
eignty, and preemptive strikes.
In this book, Jeffrey S. Lantis
develops a new theory of norm
change and identifies its stages,
including redefinition (involving
domestic political deliberations) and
constructive norm substitution (in
multilateral institutions). He deftly
takes some of the most controversial
new developments in military
technologies and embeds them in
international relations theory.
A novel approach to understanding
norm change that is rooted in techno-
logical innovation.
James W. Davis,
University of St. Gallen
280 pages, 2016
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GLOBAL SECURITY
Learning from a Disaster
Improving Nuclear Safety and
Security after Fukushima
Edited by Edward D. Blandford
and Scott D. Sagan
This book brings together Japanese
and American political scientists,
nuclear engineers, historians, and
physicists to examine the Fukushi-
ma accident from a new and broad
perspective. It explains the complex
interactions between nuclear safety
risks (the causes and consequences
of accidents) and nuclear security
risks (the causes and consequences
of sabotage or terrorist attacks),
exposing the possible vulnerabilities
all countries may have if they fail
to learn from this accident. The
book further analyzes the lessons of
Fukushima in comparative perspec-
tive, focusing on the politics of
safety and emergency preparedness.
The books editors conclude that
learning lessons across nations has
proven to be very difficult, and they
propose new policies to improve
global learning after nuclear ac-
cidents or attacks.
232 pages, 2016
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Global Responses to
Maritime Violence
Cooperation and Collective Action
Edited by Paul Shemella
Global Responses to Maritime
Violence is a full discussion of
maritime security short of war that
goes beyond the current literature
in both scope and perspective. The
chapters in this volume examine
terrorism, piracy, armed robbery
at sea, illegal maritime trafficking,
illegal fishing, and other maritime
crimes. Contributors uncover
both threats and responses as a
complex ecosystem that challenges
even the strongest national and
regional institutions. They offer
strategic precepts to guide the
efforts of any government that
seeks to improve its responses to
maritime violence. Comprehensive
in scope, the volume coheres
around the premise that good
governance in the maritime domain,
though difficult, is worth the
considerable resources required.
Ultimately, maritime violence can
be managed effectively enough
to protect citizens and national
economies that depend on the sea.
344 pages, 2016
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State Failure in the
Modern World
Zaryab Iqbal and Harvey Starr
State Failure in the Modern World
presents a comprehensive, sys-
tematic, and empirically rigorous
analysis of the full range of the state
failure process in the post-World
War II state systemincluding
what state failure means, its causes,
what accounts for its duration, its
consequences, and its implications.
The book sets out the array of
problems in previous work on state
failure with respect to conceptu-
alization and definition, as well as
how the causes and consequences
of state failure have been addressed,
and presents analyses to deal with
these problems. It also undertakes
the theoretical, conceptual, and
analytic work that must be done
before we can evaluateor have
much confidence inboth current
and proposed policy prescriptions
to prevent or manage state collapse.
State failure is an incredibly impor-
tant real world issue that has puzzled
policymakers since the 1990s. This
book pushes the empirical analysis
of this problem forward and is one of
the best analyses of state failure cur-
rently available.
Cameron G. Thies,
Arizona State University
168 pages, 2015
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Coercing Compliance
State-Initiated Brute Force in
Todays World
Robert Mandel
Few global security issues stimulate
more fervent passion than the
application of brute force. Despite
the fierce debate raging about it
in government, society, and the
academy, inadequate strategic
understanding surrounds the
issue, prompting the urgent need
for Coercing Compliancethe first
comprehensive systematic global
analysis of twenty-first century
state-initiated internal and external
applications of brute force. Using
extensive case evidence, Robert
Mandel assesses the short-term and
long-term, the local and global, the
military, political, economic, and
social, and the state and human
security impacts of brute force. He
explicitly isolates the conditions
under which brute force works best
and worst by highlighting force
initiator and force target attributes
linked to brute force success and
common but low-impact force
legitimacy concerns.
320 pages, 2015
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GLOBAL SECURITY 7
 Gulf Security and the
U.S. Military
Regime Survival and the
Politics of Basing
Geoffrey F. Gresh
Geoffrey F. Gresh examines both
Gulf Arab national security and
U.S. military basing relations
with Gulf Arab monarchy hosts
from the Second World War to
the present day. Three in-depth
country casesSaudi Arabia,
Bahrain, and Omanhelp explain
the important questions posed by
the author regarding when and why
a host nation either terminated
a U.S. military basing presence
or granted U.S. military basing
access. The analysis of the cases
offers a fresh perspective on how
the United States has adapted to
sometimes rapidly shifting Middle
East security dynamics and factors
that influence a host nation.
[T]he dearth of studies highlighting
the history and politics of U.S. basing
in the Middle East, and the Gulf
Coast region in particular, remains
surprising given the great strategic
importance of this area. Scholars,
policymakers, and general readers
will have much to learn from this
fine book.
Andrew Yeo,
H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews
280 pages, 2015
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8 MIDDLE EAST SECURITY
Coalition Challenges
in Afghanistan
The Politics of Alliance
Edited by Gale A. Mattox and
Stephen M. Grenier
This book examines the experi-
ences of a range of countries in
the conflict in Afghanistan, with
particular focus on the demands
of operating within a diverse
coalition of states. After laying
out the challenges of the Afghan
conflict, case studies of 13 coali-
tion memberseach written by
a country expertdiscuss each
countrys motivation for joining the
coalition and explore the impact of
more than 10 years of combat on
each countrys military, domestic
government, and populace.
The book dissects the changes
in the coalition over the decade,
driven by both external and inter-
nal factors. In their conclusion, the
editors review the commonality
and uniqueness evident in the
country cases, lay out the lessons
learned by NATO, and assess the
potential for their application in
future alliance warfare in the new
global order.
352 pages, 2015
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No Miracles
The Failure of Soviet Decision-
Making in the Afghan War
Michael R. Fenzel
The Soviet experience in Afghanistan
provides a useful perspective
on todays events in the region.
Gorbachev decided in 1985 that a
withdrawal should happen as soon
as possible. The senior leadership
of the Soviet Union became aware
that their strategy was unraveling,
that their operational and tactical
methods were not working. Yet they
persisted, and it took the Soviets
another four years to get out. In No
Miracles, Michael Fenzel explains
why and how that happened, as
viewed from the center of the Soviet
state. From that perspective, three
sources of failure stand out: poor
civilmilitary relations; repeated
and rapid turnover of Soviet leader-
ship; and the perception that Soviet
global prestige and influence were
inexorably tied to the success of the
Afghan mission. The cost of delay
was high for Moscow and, now,
the cost of delaying withdrawal is
similarly high for the United States.
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Uneasy Partnerships
Chinas Engagement with Japan,
the Koreas, and Russia in the
Era of Reform
Edited by Thomas Fingar
Uneasy Partnerships presents the
analysis and insights of practitioners
and scholars who have shaped
and examined Chinas interactions
with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia.
Using the same empirical approach
employed in the companion
volume, The New Great Game,
this text analyzes the perceptions,
priorities, and policies of China
and its partners to explain why
dyadic relationships evolved as
they have. The findings are used
to identify patterns and trends
and to develop a framework that
can be used to illuminate and
explain Beijings engagement
with the rest of the world.
A masterful examination of
Chinas complex interactions with
its immediate neighbors. The fine-
grained strands of this complex
story are woven into a compelling
macro-level analysis of Northeast
Asia that will be applauded by
experts and generalists alike.
T. J. Pempel,
University of California, Berkeley
STUDIES OF THE WALTER H.
SHORENSTEIN ASIA-PACIFIC
RESEARCH CENTER
264 pages, April 2017
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The New Great Game
China and South and Central
Asia in the Era of Reform
Edited by Thomas Fingar
Chinas rise has elicited envy,
admiration, and fear among its
neighbors. Although much has
been written about this, previous
coverage protrays events as deter-
mined almost entirely by Beijing.
Such accounts minimize or ignore
what individuals, corporate actors,
and governments in other coun-
tries do to attract, shape, exploit,
or deflect Chinese involvement.
This volume analyzes and explains
how Chinese policies and priorities
interact with the goals and actions
of other countries in the region.
To explore the reciprocal nature
of relations between China and
countries in South and Central
Asia, the contributors employ
numerous policy-relevant lenses:
geography, culture, history, resource
endowments, and levels of develop-
ment. This volumes goal is deeper
understanding of Chinese and
other national priorities and
policies and of discerning patterns
among countries and issues.
STUDIES OF THE WALTER H.
SHORENSTEIN ASIA-PACIFIC
RESEARCH CENTER
360 pages, 2016
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Circles of Compensation
Economic Growth and the
Globalization of Japan
Kent E. Calder
Japan grew explosively and
consistently for more than a
century, from the Meiji Restoration
until the collapse of the economic
bubble in the early 1990s. Since
then, it has been unable to restart
its economic engine and respond to
globalization. How could the same
politicaleconomic system produce
such strongly contrasting outcomes?
This book identifies the crucial
variables as classic Japanese forms of
socio-political organization: the circles
of compensation. These cooperative
groupings of economic, political, and
bureaucratic interests dictate corporate
and individual responses to such
critical issues as investment and inno-
vation. Kent E. Calder examines how
these circles operate in seven concrete
areas, from food supply to consumer
electronics, and deals in special detail
with the influence of Japans changing
financial system.
A beautifully-written breakthrough
analysis of how to think about one of
the worlds most important nations.
Simply too important to pass up.
Jeffrey Garten,
Yale University
344 pages, July 2017
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ASIAN SECURITY 9
 Hard Target
Sanctions, Inducements, and
the Case of North Korea
Stephan Haggard and
Marcus Noland
This book captures the effects of
sanctions and inducements on
North Korea and reconstructs the
role of economic incentives in the
countrys nuclear program. Stephan
Haggard and Marcus Noland
draw on an array of evidence to
show the reluctance of the North
Korean leadership to weaken its
grip on foreign economic activity.
They argue that inducements have
limited effect on the regime, and
instead urge policymakers to think
in terms of gradual strategies. Hard
Target connects economic statecraft
to the marketization process to
understand North Korea and
addresses a larger debate over the
merits and demerits of engage-
ment with adversaries.
An innovative study of the evolving
political economy of North Korea.
Amid an increasing application of
sanctions, Hard Target contributes
much needed sophistication and
nuance to over-simplified debates
about dealing with North Korea.
John S. Park,
Harvard University
STUDIES IN ASIAN SECURITY
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The Supply Side of Security
A Market Theory of
Military Alliances
Tongfi Kim
The Supply Side of Security
conceptualizes military alliances
as contracts for exchanging goods
and services. At the international
level, the market for these contracts
is shaped by how many countries
can supply security. Tongfi Kim
identifies the supply of policy con-
cessions and military commitments
as the main factors that explain
the bargaining power of a state
in a potential or existing alliance.
Additionally, three variables of a
states domestic politics significantly
affect its negotiating power: whether
there is strong domestic opposition
to the alliance, whether the states
leader is pro-alliance, and whether
that leader is vulnerable. Kim then
produces a deductive theory based
on analysis of how the global power
structure and domestic politics
affect alliances. As China becomes
stronger and the U.S. military
budget shrinks, The Supply Side
of Security shows that these
countries should be understood
not just as competing threats, but
as competing security suppliers.
STUDIES IN ASIAN SECURITY
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Taiwans China Dilemma
Contested Identities and Multiple
Interests in Taiwans Cross-Strait
Economic Policy
Syaru Shirley Lin
China and Taiwan share one of the
worlds most complex international
relationships. Although similar
cultures and economic interests
promoted an explosion of economic
ties between them since the late
1980s, these ties have not led to
an improved political relationship.
Taiwans China Dilemma explains the
divergence between the development
of economic and political relations
across the Taiwan Strait through the
interplay of national identity and
economic interests. Using primary
sources, opinion surveys, and inter-
views with Taiwanese opinion leaders,
Syaru Shirley Lin paints a vivid
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The combination of a fresh theo-
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Taiwans China Dilemma a must-
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dynamic cross-Strait relationship.
Scott L. Kastner,
University of Maryland, College Park
304 pages, 2016
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PLA Influence on
Chinas National Security
Policymaking
Edited by Phillip C. Saunders
and Andrew Scobell
This volume seeks to assess the
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This unique volume, by the lead-
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David Shambaugh,
George Washington University
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Islam in the Balance
Ideational Threats in Arab Politics
Lawrence Rubin
Islam in the Balance is an analysis
of how ideas, or political ideol-
ogy, can threaten states and how
states react to ideational threats.
It examines the threat perception
and policies of two Arab Muslim
majority states, Egypt and Saudi
Arabia, in response to the rise and
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Islamic states, established in Iran
(1979) and Sudan (1989). Using
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An excellent book. It introduces
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Curtis R. Ryan,
Political Science Quarterly
200 pages, 2014
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