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  • Identity in the Shadow of a Giant

    How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan

    by Scott Sigmund Gartner, Chin-Hao Huang, Yitan Li, Patrick James ...
    Co-authored by four high-profile International Relations scholars, this book investigates the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic state.Examining an array of factors that affect identity formation, the authors consider the influence of the rapid military and economic rise of China on Taiwan’s identity. Their assessment ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Assessing War

    The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure

    by Leo J. Blanken, Hy Rothstein, Jason J. Lepore, Scott Sigmund Gartner, John Grenier0, Edward G. Lengel1, Brooks D. Simpson2, Col. Michael Richardson3, Brian McAllister Linn4, D. Scott Stephenson5, Gehrard Weinberg6, Conrad C. Crane7, Gregory Daddis8, William C. Hix9, Kalev I. Sepp0, Alejandro S. Hernandez1, Julian Ouellet2, Christopher J. Nannini3, Mark Stout4, Bradley J. Strawser5, Russell Muirhead6, Dorothy Denning7, Robert Reilly8, Aric P. Shafran9, Anthony H. Cordesman0 ...
    Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Costly Calculations

    A Theory of War, Casualties, and Politics

    by Scott Sigmund Gartner, Gary M. Segura ...
    Gartner and Segura consider the costs of war – both human and political – by examining the consequences of foreign combat, on domestic politics. The personal costs of war – the military war dead and injured – are the most salient measure of war costs generally and the primary instrument through which war affects domestic politics. The authors posit a general framework for understanding war ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Afghan Endgames

    Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War

    by Hy Rothstein, John Arquilla, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Barfield, Andrew J. Bacevich, Frederick W. Kagan, Edward N. Luttwak, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Leo J. Blanken0, Russell Muirhead1, Robert Reilly2, Jade I. Rodriguez3, Rebecca Lorentz4 ...
    Series series South Asia in World Affairs series
    The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant numbers of US combat troops will remain in Afghanistan until at least 2014, perhaps longer, depending on the situation on the ground and the outcome of the US presidential election in 2012. Given the ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Conflict Mediation

    New Approaches and Findings

    Edited by Jacob Bercovitch, Scott Sigmund Gartner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation.International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and important conflict resolution methods of the early 21st century. This book argues that traditional ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    by Christopher Howard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Defense Economics

    Defense in a Globalized World

    Edited by Todd Sandler, Keith Hartley ...
    Series series Handbooks in Economics
    The second volume of the Handbook of Defense Economics addresses defense needs, practices, threats, and policies in the modern era of globalization. This new era concerns the enhanced cross-border flows of all kinds (e.g., capital and labor flows, revolutionary rhetoric, guerrillas, and terrorists) including the spillovers of benefits and costs associated with public goods and transnational ... Read more

    $150.39 CAD

  • The Economic Psychology of Tax Behaviour

    by Erich Kirchler ...
    Tax evasion is a complex phenomenon which is influenced not just by economic motives but by psychological factors as well. Economic-psychological research focuses on individual and social representations of taxation as well as decision-making. In this 2007 book, Erich Kirchler assembles research on tax compliance, with a focus on tax evasion, and integrates the findings into a model based on the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • New Directions for International Relations

    Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem

    by Bruce Russett, Karl DeRouen Jr, Hazem Adam Ghobarah, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Shaun Goldfinch, William Howell, Paul Huth, Ranan D. Kuperman, Brett Ashley Leeds0, Zeev Maoz1, Jon Pevehouse2, Alastair Smith3, Allan C. Stam4, Ilan Talmud5, Lesley G. Terris6, Michael D. Ward7, Suzanne Werner8, Amy Yuen9 ...
    Series series Innovations in the Study of World Politics
    Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Gender, Peace and Security

    Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325

    Edited by Louise Olsson, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security.How should we understand women’s participation in peace processes and in peace operations? And what forms of gendered security dynamics are present in armed ... Read more

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  • Mediating International Crises

    by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kathleen Young, David Quinn, Victor Asal ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This new book shows how international crises are dangerous episodes that can be destabilizing not only to the actors directly involved but also to the entire international system.Recognizing the primacy of crises as defining moments in international relations, scholars and policy makers alike are increasingly concerned with identifying mechanisms for crisis prevention, management and resolution ... Read more

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  • The Continent of International Law

    Explaining Agreement Design

    by Barbara Koremenos ...
    Every year, states negotiate, conclude, sign, and give effect to hundreds of new international agreements. Koremenos argues that the detailed design provisions of such agreements matter for phenomena that scholars, policymakers, and the public care about: when and how international cooperation occurs and is maintained. Theoretically, Koremenos develops hypotheses regarding how cooperation problems ... Read more

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