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Global Security Upheaval

Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions

by Robert Mandel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability. By assessing recent real-world trends,...
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Our Word Is Our Bond

How Legal Speech Acts

by Marianne Constable
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction...
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Letters of the Law

Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law

by Sora Y. Han
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the...
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by Keith J. Bybee
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016

Is civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster and...
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No Miracles

The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War

by Michael R. Fenzel
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev decided that a withdrawal from Afghanistan should occur as soon as possible. The Soviet Union's senior leadership had become aware that their strategy...
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Coercing Compliance

State-Initiated Brute Force in Today's World

by Robert Mandel
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015

Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for —the first comprehensive systematic...
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Getting New Things Done

Networks, Brokerage, and the Assembly of Innovative Action

by David Obstfeld
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

Our networks—and how we work them—create vital ties that bind. Organizations recognize and reward this fact by leaning ever more heavily on collaboration, particularly when it comes to getting new things done. This book offers a framework that explains how innovators use network processes to broker...
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The Politics of Weapons Inspections

Assessing WMD Monitoring and Verification Regimes

by Nathan E. Busch, Joseph F. Pilat
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes—the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected...
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Reliability and Risk

The Challenge of Managing Interconnected Infrastructures

by Paul Schulman, Emery Roe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016

The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures—such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water—is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems render them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures,...
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by Alan Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009

Unlike other books written on "toxic leaders," this book takes issue with the predominant view that "toxic leaders are bad" and destructive to their companies. Rather, the author argues that even highly productive leaders have some toxic qualities central to their success story....
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by Matthew A. Cronin, Jeffrey Loewenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Creativity has long been thought of as a personal trait, a gift bestowed on some and unachievable by others. While we laud the products of creativity, the stories behind them are often abridged to the elusive "aha!" moment, the result of a momentary stroke of genius. In The Craft...
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Us&Them

A Novel

by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on waiting for her son—still missing but not presumed dead yet—to return from the Iran–Iraq war....
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Our Non-Christian Nation

How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life

by Jay Wexler
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019

Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding their full participation in public life, bringing their arguments all the way to the Supreme Court. The...
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by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015

Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming...
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