Stanford Security Studies imprint: 74 books
by Brad Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds—including historical, political,...
by T.V. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view...
Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century
Theory, History, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The U.S. today faces the most complex and challenging security environment in recent memory— even as it deals with growing constraints on its ability to respond to threats. Its most consequential challenge is the rise of China, which increasingly has the capability to deny the U.S. access to areas...
Proxy Warriors
The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security—the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords. Tracing the history of several "high profile" paramilitary organizations, including Indonesia's...
Global Responses to Maritime Violence
Cooperation and Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Global Responses to Maritime Violence is a full discussion of maritime security short of war that goes beyond the current literature in both scope and perspective. The chapters in this volume examine terrorism, piracy, armed robbery at sea, illegal maritime trafficking, illegal fishing, and other...
by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions...
Learning from a Disaster
Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This book—the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort—brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to examine the Fukushima accident from a new and broad perspective.
It explains...
Arms and Influence
U.S. Technology Innovations and the Evolution of International Security Norms
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations such as the atomic bomb, armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and advanced reconnaissance satellites have fostered debates about the boundaries of international...
Coalition Challenges in Afghanistan
The Politics of Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states. After laying out the challenges of the Afghan conflict in terms of objectives, strategy, and mission, case studies of 15...
Between Threats and War
U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough...
Reducing Uncertainty
Intelligence Analysis and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of disease. In other words, we spend a lot of money to anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and avoid mistakes. A substantial portion of what we...
by Jeffrey A. Larsen, Kerry M. Kartchner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer "rogue" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when...
Learning to Forget
US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict...
NATO in Afghanistan
The Liberal Disconnect
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATO's role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and...