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  • Political Warfare and Psychological Operations

    Rethinking the U.S. Approach

    by Frank R. Barnett, Carnes Lord ...
    Considers what the U.S. can do to overcome traditional American aversion to political warfare and how to be better competitors in the current political struggles that characterize international relations. Military and civilian analyses of past successes and failures present possibilities for improvement. Suggests how the U.S. can upgrade its performance in the political-psychological arena. Papers ... Read more

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  • Special Operations in U.S. Strategy

    by Frank R. Barnett, B. Hugh Tovar, Richard H. Shultz ...
    A series of studies and discussions on the impact of Special Operations. Includes analysis of the threat to the US, the Soviet approach, military capabilities, intelligence and special operations, psychological operations and low-intensity conflicts. Predating the fall of the Soviet Union, the Gulf conflicts and the events of 9/11/2001, this is an interesting insight to military thinking in the ... Read more

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  • Afghanistan

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Barnett R. Rubin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world's major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new phase, when the Taliban took power and imposed order based on a harsh, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

    by Barnett R. Rubin ...
    One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin has dedicated much of his career to the study of this remote mountain country. He served as a special advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke during his final mission to the region and still serves the Obama administration under Holbrooke's successor, Ambassador Marc Grossman. Now Rubin distills his unmatched ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education

    Edited by M. Davies, R. Barnett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education provides a single compendium on the nature, function, and applications of critical thinking. This book brings together the work of top researchers on critical thinking worldwide, covering questions of definition, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, research, policy, and application.Chapter 23 is available open access under a Creative ... Read more

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  • A Conspiracy Against Obamacare

    The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case

    by R. Barnett, J. Adler, D. Bernstein, O. Kerr, D. Kopel, I. Somin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Affordable Care Act debate was one of the most important and most public examinations of the Constitution in our history. At the forefront of that debate were the bloggers of the Volokh Conspiracy who, from before the law was even passed, engaged in a spirited, erudite, and accessible discussion of the legal issues involved in the case. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Afghanistan

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Barnett R. Rubin ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world's major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new phase, when the Taliban took power and imposed order based on a harsh, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James L. Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their significance? And what are their likely consequences? In an engaging question-and-answer format, ... Read more

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  • The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History

    From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

    by Thomas J. Barfield ...
    Series Book 9 - Princeton Shorts
    When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain ... Read more

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  • The Battle for the Arab Spring

    Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era

    by Lin Noueihed, Alex Warren ...
    This "lucidly written" account of the 2011 wave of revolutions "includes a wealth of astute analysis on the politics of the region, from Morocco to Oman" (Paul Hockenos, The National).Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to be called the Arab Spring of 2011. Millions took to the streets in ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Egypt

    From Nasser to Tahrir Square

    by Steven A. Cook ...
    The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world and has turned its gaze to Egypt, however. A half century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the ... Read more

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  • Egypt

    by Robert Springborg ...
    Series series Hot Spots in Global Politics
    Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to which Egypt currently is subjected and which are bound to intensify are already straining the ties that hold its political community together, while rendering ever more difficult the task of governing it.In this timely book, leading expert ... Read more

    $18.00 USD