Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Europe, Edmunds, Timothy

Автор: Donald Stoker
Название: Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present
ISBN: 1108479596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108479592
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: How can you achieve victory in war if you don`t know your objectives or what victory means? Donald Stoker reveals the flaws in US policy and strategy from the Korean War to the present and lays the foundations for a better approach to the wars of tomorrow.

Автор: Downes Alexander B.
Название: Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong
ISBN: 1501761145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501761140
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between intervening states and their targets. As Downes demonstrates, when a state confronts an obstinate or dangerous adversary, the lure of toppling its government and establishing a friendly administration is strong. The historical record, however, shows that foreign-imposed regime change is, in the long term, neither cheap, easy, nor consistently successful. The strategic impulse to forcibly oust antagonistic or non-compliant regimes overlooks two key facts. First, the act of overthrowing a foreign government sometimes causes its military to disintegrate, sending thousands of armed men into the countryside where they often wage an insurgency against the intervener. Second, externally-imposed leaders face a domestic audience in addition to an external one, and the two typically want different things. These divergent preferences place imposed leaders in a quandary: taking actions that please one invariably alienates the other. Regime change thus drives a wedge between external patrons and their domestic prot?g?s or between prot?g?s and their people. Catastrophic Success provides sober counsel for leaders and diplomats. Regime change may appear an expeditious solution, but states are usually better off relying on other tools of influence, such as diplomacy. Regime change, Downes urges, should be reserved for exceptional cases. Interveners must recognize that, absent a rare set of promising preconditions, regime change often instigates a new period of uncertainty and conflict that impedes their interests from being realized.

Автор: Shen Zhihua
Название: Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s
ISBN: 0415748127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415748124
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.

Автор: Bronson John E.
Название: The Cold War Defense of the United States: Strategy, Weapon Systems and Operations
ISBN: 1476677204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476677200
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: During the Cold War, the United States was forced to establish means of massive long-range attack in response to Soviet Union advancements in weaponry. This book shows how these defenses evolved from fledgling stop-gap measures into a complex fabric of interconnected combinations of high-tech equipment over 40 years.

Автор: Peter King; Kumar Rupesinghe; Olga Vorkunova
Название: Ethnicity and Conflict in a Post-Communist World
ISBN: 0333569512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333569511
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The post-Communist world has seen a dramatic revival of ethnicity and nationalism. The authors address themselves to the resurgence of ethnicity and nationalism within the former Soviet imperium, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria and China and examine the consequences of perestroika and glasnost.

Автор: Peter King; Kumar Rupesinghe; Olga Vorkunova
Название: Ethnicity and Conflict in a Post-Communist World
ISBN: 1349222151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349222155
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Описание: The post-Communist world has seen a dramatic revival of ethnicity and nationalism. The authors address themselves to the resurgence of ethnicity and nationalism within the former Soviet imperium, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria and China and examine the consequences of perestroika and glasnost.

Автор: Samardzija Zoran
Название: Post-Communist Malaise: Cinematic Responses to European Integration
ISBN: 081358714X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813587141
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the "end of history" with capitalism and liberal democracy achieving decisive victories. Europe would now integrate and reconcile with its past. However, the aftershocks of the financial crisis of 2008—the rise in right-wing populism, austerity politics, and mass migration—have shown that the ideological divisions which haunted Europe in the twentieth century still remain. It is within this context that Post-Communist Malaise revives discourses of political modernism and revisits debates from Marxism and seventies film theory. Analyzing work of Theo Angelopoulos, V?ra Chytilov?, Srdjan Dragojevi?, Jean-Luc Godard,  Mikl?s Jancs?, Emir Kusturica, Du?an Makavejev, Cristi Puiu, Jan ?vankmajer, Andrei Tarkovsky, and B?la Tarr, the book focuses on how select cinemas from Eastern Europe and the Balkans critique the neoliberal integration of Europe whose failures fuel the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics. By politicizing art cinema from the regions, Post-Communist Malaise asks fundamental questions about film, aesthetics, and ideology. It argues for the utopian potential of the materiality of cinematic time to imagine a new political and cultural organization for Europe.  

Автор: Zoran Samardzija
Название: Post-Communist Malaise: Cinematic Responses to European Integration
ISBN: 0813587158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813587158
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the "end of history" with capitalism and liberal democracy achieving decisive victories. Europe would now integrate and reconcile with its past. However, the aftershocks of the financial crisis of 2008—the rise in right-wing populism, austerity politics, and mass migration—have shown that the ideological divisions which haunted Europe in the twentieth century still remain. It is within this context that Post-Communist Malaise revives discourses of political modernism and revisits debates from Marxism and seventies film theory. Analyzing work of Theo Angelopoulos, V?ra Chytilov?, Srdjan Dragojevi?, Jean-Luc Godard,  Mikl?s Jancs?, Emir Kusturica, Du?an Makavejev, Cristi Puiu, Jan ?vankmajer, Andrei Tarkovsky, and B?la Tarr, the book focuses on how select cinemas from Eastern Europe and the Balkans critique the neoliberal integration of Europe whose failures fuel the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics. By politicizing art cinema from the regions, Post-Communist Malaise asks fundamental questions about film, aesthetics, and ideology. It argues for the utopian potential of the materiality of cinematic time to imagine a new political and cultural organization for Europe.  

Автор: Peters John E.
Название: Restoring America`s Military Prowess: Creating Reliable Civil-Military Relations, Sound Campaign Planning and Stability-Counter-Insurgency Operations
ISBN: 1442274719 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442274716
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: The U.S. military spends more than 14 countries combined and possesses state-of-the art weapons and equipment, yet after 13 years of effort, $1.4 trillion, and some 6,000 casualties, it still has been unable to defeat its enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq. The book explains why and how it can be remedied.

Автор: Matteo Tondini
Название: Statebuilding and Justice Reform: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan
ISBN: 0415724295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415724296
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001.

Автор: Dimitrakis Panagiotis
Название: Secret War for China
ISBN: 0755601106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755601103
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have long remained unclear; it is a confidential narrative of clandestine correspondence, covert operations and failed intelligence. The Secret War in Afghanistan undertakes a full analysis of recently declassified intelligence archives in order to asses Anglo-American secret intelligence and diplomacy relating to the invasion of Afghanistan and unveil the Cold War realities behind the rhetoric. Rooted at every turn in close examination of the primary evidence, it outlines the secret operations of the CIA, MI6 and the KGB, and the full extent of the aid and intelligence from the West which armed and trained the Afghan fighters.
Drawing from US, UK and Russian archives, Panagiotis Dimitrakis analyses the Chinese arms deals with the CIA, the multiple recorded intelligence failures of KGB intelligence and secret letters from the office of Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter. In so doing, this study brings a new scholarly perspective to some of the most controversial events of Cold War history. Dimitrakis also outlines the full extent of China's involvement in arming the Mujahedeen, which led to the PRC effectively fighting the Soviet Union by proxy. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of the Cold War, American History and the Modern Middle East.

Автор: Cottey
Название: Democratic Control of the Military in Postcommunist Europe
ISBN: 0333946243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333946244
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This comparative study examines the challenges that the countries of post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe have faced in securing democratic control of their armed forces and establishing civilian control of defence policy.