Arms Control category: 475 books
A High Price
The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's founding in 1948, Daniel Byman charts...
A Narco History
How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from,...
by Fred Schreier
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
The threat of terrorists using WMD is not new, but the current expansion of these groups regional networks means that no state can consider itself immune from the threat of terrorist attack or proliferation activity. States must make improvements in their security sectors to prevent the future use of...
The Rise of Nuclear Iran
How Tehran Defies the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
In the West, liberal politicians and pundits are calling for renewed diplomatic engagement with Iran, convinced that Tehran will respond to reason and halt its nuclear weapons program. Yet countries have repeatedly tried diplomatic tactics, all of which have utterly failed. In The Rise of Nuclear...
by Ilan Berman, Leonardo Coutinho, Joel Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In recent years, significant attention has focused upon the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the threat they pose to the United States and the West. Far less well understood, however, has been the phenomenon of Iran’s regional advance in America’s own Hemisphere—an intrusion...
Duthel Intelligence Report Syria civil war
Syrian uprising - 2011present
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Syrian uprising (2011–present) Syria Arab Spring Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region Syrian Army Free Syrian Army United Nations Refugees of the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising Human shield Shabiha Arab League Monitors in Syria Arab League Kofi Annan Kofi Annan peace plan for Syria Ban Ki-moon...
America Unbound
The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"A splendidly illuminating book."
—The New York Times
Like it or not, George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions once imposed on...
Reagan and Gorbachev
How the Cold War Ended
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person...
How Wars End
Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning...
Unthinkable
Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The world’s foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations examines Iran’s current nuclear potential and charts America’s future course of action.
Iran: The Coming Crisis
Radical Islam, Oil, and the Nuclear Threat
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The Past, Present, and Future—Exposed
The events wracking the Middle East today are confusing to even the most avid news buff. Now all the answers to your questions are offered in just one resource. Divided into five main sections, Iran: The Coming Crisis contains the most up-to-date, thorough...
Bomb Power
The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
**From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and has left us in a state of war alert ever since.
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.**
In...
by Paul Lettow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) has puzzled scholars and commentators. Some have claimed that it was a purely political maneuver, while others have explained it as a ruse conjured up by presidential advisers to weaken Soviet resolve.
These assumptions, however, fail to...
Weakness and Deceit
America and El Salvador's Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
A land and culture poorly understood by analysts, politicians, and voters in the far-off United States. A regime permeated with corruption; a country in the steel grip of a few families that disdained any system which might give a voice to the millions who kept them in comfort: guarding their children,...