William Keller: 23 books
Arab Spring
Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished, country-specific case studies of the uprisings...
Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from...
by William Keller
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions’ hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes...
New Explorations into International Relations
Democracy, Foreign Investment, Terrorism, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture...
by Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, Jeffrey W. Knopf, Maria Rost Rublee
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime—even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation...
Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control
Interests, Conflicts, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of...
by Francesca Giovannini, William Keller, Tanya Ogilvie-White
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however,...
The Future of Just War
New Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is...
The Decision to Attack
Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations for national security operations. States find themselves in an increasingly interconnected world with a diverse threat spectrum and little understanding of how decisions are made within this amorphous domain.
With The Decision...
by Vlad Kravtsov, William Keller, Scott Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent. States that decide to reinvent their political authority simultaneously evaluate which current global norms are desirable and to what extent. In this study, Vlad Kravtsov...
by Janis Bogue, William Keller
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
It’s been a quiet year for Officer AJ Bugbee of the Stonington P.D. The special talent that made him so valuable to Chief Brown has been unused for so long that AJ wonders if he still has it. All of that changes one night when AJ wakes from a bad dream to a nightmare – a girl has been murdered,...
Democracy Betrayed
The Rise of the Surveillance Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
**“A persuasive *****cri de coeur ***from a national security expert . . . makes a spirited case for preferring untrammeled freedom to managed and monitored safety.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the aftermath of 9/11, in lockstep with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian...
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction - Complete 20 Volumes
The Great Classics of World Literature: Notre Dame, Pride and Prejudice, David Copperfield, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Anna Karenina…
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
This meticulously edited Harvard collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Vols. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Vol. 3: A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Vol. 4: Guy Mannering by Sir Walter...
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