The Military Balance 2020, The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Автор: The International Institute For Strategic Studies (iiss)
Название: Military balance 2019
ISBN: 1857439880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857439885
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Цена: 408320 T
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Описание: The Military Balance is an authoritative assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries. Detailed A–Z entries list each country’s military organisation, personnel numbers, equipment inventories, and relevant economic and demographic data. Regional and select country analyses cover the major developments affecting defence policy and procurement, and defence economics. The opening graphics section displays notable defence statistics, while additional data sets detail selected arms orders and military exercises, as well as comparative defence expenditure and personnel numbers. The Military Balance is an indispensable handbook for anyone conducting serious analysis of security policy and military affairs. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, founded in 1958, is an independent centre for research, analysis and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military dimension. 'Amid continuing conflict and broadening insecurity, The Military Balance provides essential facts and analysis for decision-makers and for better informed public debate.' - Dr Robert M. Gates, former U.S. Secretary of Defense 'Because military affairs are inevitably clouded in fog, the IISS Military Balance is an essential companionfor those who seek to understand.' - Lord Roberton of Port Ellen, former Secretary-General of NATO 'The Military Balance is widely recognised as the best unclassified source of defense information on personnel, equipment and budgets for every country.' - Leon Panetta, former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Автор: Martyanov Andrei
Название: The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs
ISBN: 1949762076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781949762075
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 26620.00 T
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Описание: The liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcome of such a collapse remains a matter of speculation and public debate. The US is desperately seeking to preserve the status quo, which rests primarily upon recognition of its military supremacy.

For millennia, warfare has been a driving force behind changes in the geopolitical status of power configurations (whether of peoples, states or empires), and it remains so, today. Accordingly, short of actual warfare, the assessment (modeling) of relative military power plays an inordinate role in the determination of national status. Models of emerging changes in military capability range from relatively simple to extremely complex ones.

Viewing the evolution of the current system of international relations outside the framework of actual, rather than propaganda-driven, military capabilities is not only useless, it is dangerous since states' mistaken assessment of their own and other states' military power can lead to misadventures and catastrophic mistakes. The United States' efforts to preserve not just its dominance but the perception of its dominance are bound to fail for many important reasons, none more important than what is often misidentified in past American military-theoretical hypotheses about the future of warfare, known generically as the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This book explains why those hypotheses are failing and will continue to fail, and addresses the real RMA.

In the end, technological development in weaponry as a response to tactical, operational and strategic requirements defines not only a nation's geopolitical status but determines the global order. Assessments of military capacity, if reality-based, serve as good predictors of the level of volatility in international relations and the level of violence globally. This book gives an insight into the evolution of weapons and the way they influenced international relations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

It also defines Revolution in Military Affairs as manifested via policy, politics, and technology. It reviews some models which are useful in assessing the current geopolitical situation. This book also tries to give a forecast of the future development of warfare and the ways in which it is going to change the whole system of international relations, hopefully towards a new geopolitical equilibrium.

Автор: J. Br?mmelh?rster; W. Paes
Название: The Military as an Economic Actor
ISBN: 1349433233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349433230
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 79190.00 T
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Описание: This book provides a critical analysis of this phenomenon, comparing experiences with `military business` from four continents (Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America). Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume shows the implications of `military business` for civil-military relations, good governance and international development policies.

Автор: L. Wahid
Название: Military Expenditure and Economic Growth in the Middle East
ISBN: 1349305715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349305711
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 69870.00 T
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Описание: This book investigates the role and the impacts of armies and military regimes in the Middle East. It argues that one of the main causes of the slow and stagnated economic development in the region is high military expenditure perpetuated by strong grips of armies on the politics of the region.

Автор: Linda Hughes-Kirchubel; Shelley MacDermid Wadswort
Название: A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families
ISBN: 3319689835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319689838
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 102480.00 T
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Описание:

This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.S. deployments to create an action plan for supporting military and veteran families during future conflicts. Its innovative ideas stretch beyond designated governmental agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, VA) to include participation from, and possible collaborations with, the business/corporate, academic, advocacy, and philanthropic sectors. Contributors identify ongoing and emerging issues affecting military and veteran families and recommend specific strategies toward expanding and enhancing current programs and policy. This proactive agenda also outlines new directions for mobilizing the research community, featuring strategies for addressing institutional challenges and improving access to critical data.

Included in the coverage:

• Lessons learned inside the Pentagon.
  
• Merging reintegration streams for veterans and military families.
  
• The unique role of professional associations in assisting military families: a case study.
  
• Philanthropy for military and veteran families: challenges past, recommendations for tomorrow.
  
• Rules of engagement: media coverage of military families during war.
  
• Designing and implementing strategic research studies to support military families.
  

A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families is of immediate usefulness to leaders, professionals, and future professionals in interdisciplinary academic, governmental, advocacy, and philanthropic areas of focus interested in the theoretical, practical, and real-life concerns and needs of military-affiliated families.

Название: Nuclear crisis
ISBN: 1785332678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785332678
Издательство: Berghahn
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Цена: 122410.00 T
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In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

Автор: S. Adejumobi
Название: State, Economy, and Society in Post-Military Nigeria
ISBN: 1349294012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349294015
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 60550.00 T
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Описание: This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic policies and political reforms have impacted on state-society relations, economic and class configurations, social composition of power, social welfare and cohesion in post-military Nigeria; and points to key policy recommendations that may be crucial in redirecting the future of the country.

Автор: Adem Yavuz Elveren
Название: The Economics of Military Spending: A Marxist Perspective
ISBN: 1138365068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138365063
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 163330.00 T
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Описание: This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy. It is the first book to provide both a theoretical and empirical investigation of how military spending affects the profit rate, a key indicator of the health of a capitalist economy.

Автор: C. Bluth
Название: The Two Germanies and Military Security in Europe
ISBN: 033396893X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333968932
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 116450.00 T
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Описание: This original study based on documents, hitherto not discussed in literature of the Cold War, adds a significant new perspective to an important episode in Cold War History. This book makes use of newly declassified files and, for the first time, reveals the true purposes and intentions of the Warsaw Pact in those negotiations.

Автор: Kechichian, Joseph A.
Название: Attempt to uproot sunni-arab influence
ISBN: 1845198549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845198541
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 42900.00 T
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Описание: In the aftermath of popular uprisings that unleashed the quest for freedom, Arab governments scrambled to limit sectarian divisions, though much of these efforts came to naught. Regrettably, weak governments fell into carefully laid traps, aimed to divide and rule. Protracted wars further destroyed Arab wealth and cohesiveness, and Sunni communities saw their power bases marginalized. On cue, and predicted by some commentators, extremist movements like the so-called Islamic State emerged, targeting Sunnis with extreme violence. In 2014, Nabil Khalif, an established Lebanese thinker, published a widely praised thesis that identified the root causes of renewed sectarian tensions at a time when confrontations polarized Arab societies. Based on an extensive discussion of the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the Shah, Khalif advanced the notion that the revolution was not "Islamic" but an "Iranian-Shi'ah" rebellion that ended the Pahlavi military monarchy, and that the post-2011 Sunni-Shi'ah struggle was planned by leading Western powers, including Russia, to preserve Israel and impose the latter's acceptance in the Middle East as a natural element. In this translation of Istihdaf Ahl al-Sunna Targeting Sunnis], Joseph A. K chichian analyzes the fundamental questions raised by the author to better place the current sectarian collision in a geo-strategic global perspective. Based on the book's avowals of how the world's three monotheistic religions perceive each other and "Political Sunnism," K chichian assesses Henry Kissinger's famous appellation of the "Middle World" that houses significant and indispensable oil resources, and why that allegedly makes it "Political Sunnism" dangerous. In a comprehensive introduction to the translation, he describes various initiatives that led global powers to check the undeniable force of "Political Sunnism." Subject: Middle East Studies, Islamic Studies, Politics]

Название: Ukraine conflict
ISBN: 0367234955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367234959
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 44910.00 T
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Описание: This volume examines the complex causes of the Ukraine conflict and the consequences for Ukrainian statehood, Ukraine`s relations with Russia, Russia`s own domestic governance and Russia`s relations with Europe. It was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Автор: Dincecco Mark
Название: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
ISBN: 1316612597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316612590
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 28510.00 T
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Описание: This book provides a new way to think about the process of long-run economic and political development that speaks to several fundamental debates in the social sciences. Thus, it will appeal to a large audience, including political scientists, economists, economic historians, sociologists, and graduate and undergraduate students.

Автор: Cox
Название: The Post Cold War World
ISBN: 0815351690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815351696
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 137810.00 T
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Описание: This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder and asks why so many assumptions about how the world might look after the Cold War have proven to be so wrong.