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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “metin gurcan”
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  • Opening the Black Box

    The Turkish Military Before and After July 2016

    by Metin Gurcan ...
    A scholarly analysis of the Turkish military in the 21st century by the Near East policy expert and author of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan.On July 15th, 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces attempted a coup d'état against sitting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Though the attempt was unsuccessful, the TAF would never be the same. In Opening the Black Box, former Turkish military ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

    Understanding Counter-insurgency Efforts in Tribalized Rural and Muslim Environments

    by Metin Gurcan ...
    Series series Wolverhampton Military Studies
    Since 20 December 2001 - the date which marked the authorization of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Government - hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers from around 50 different states have physically been and served in Afghanistan. Roughly 20 rotation periods have been experienced; billions of US dollars have been spent; and almost 3,500 coalition ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gallipoli Campaign

    The Turkish Perspective

    by Metin Gürcan, Robert Johnson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the historiography of the First World War. This timely collection of wide-ranging essays on the campaign, drawing on Turkish sources and written by ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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    Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century

    by Hugo Slim ...
    Warfare is at a tipping point today as it passes from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerized warfare and a renewed risk of "big war" between global powers. Humanitarian response is also developing fast as "big aid" demands more and more money and tries to digitalize and prepare for new needs in long wars and escalating climate crisis. This book starts with the founding moment ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • A Peace to End All Peace

    The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

    by David Fromkin ...
    Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts—including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects—are rooted in the region's political ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Global Security Cultures

    by Mary Kaldor ...
    Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Why do some conflicts never end? And how is it that practices like beheadings, extra-judicial killings, the bombing of hospitals and schools and sexual slavery are becoming increasingly common?In this book, renowned scholar ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Moscow Option

    An Alternative Second World War

    by David Downing ...
    This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941.Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant. In this terrifyingly plausible scenario, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow on September ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of War

    Edited by Julian Lindley-French, Yves Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • NATO in Afghanistan

    Fighting Together, Fighting Alone

    by David P. Auerswald, Stephen M. Saideman ...
    Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners. Yet as the war in Afghanistan has made abundantly clear, multilateral cooperation is neither straightforward nor guaranteed. Countries differ significantly in what they are willing to do and how and where they are willing to do it. Some refuse to participate in ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the Ottomans

    The Great War in the Middle East

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    An international bestsellerAn Economist Best Book of the YearThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East.**“A page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival ... Remarkable.” —**Wall Street JournalBy 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and... ... Read more

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  • The Politics of War

    Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001–14

    by Jean-Christophe Boucher, Kim Richard Nossal ...
    When the Canadian government committed forces to join the military mission in Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, little did it foresee that this decision would involve Canada in a war-riven country for over a decade. The Politics of War explores how, as the mission became increasingly unpopular, Canadian politicians across the political spectrum began to use it to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Coercion

    The Power to Hurt in International Politics

    Edited by Kelly M. Greenhill, Peter Krause ...
    From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether implicitly or explicitly) upon assumptions and precepts formulated in-and predicated upon-politics in ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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