Stanford Security Studies imprint: 74 books
by William Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons...
Vortex of Conflict
U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
More than two million Americans have now served in Afghanistan or Iraq; more than 5,000 Americans have been killed; and more than 35,000 have been grievously wounded. The war in Afghanistan has become America's longest war. Despite these facts, most Americans do not understand the background of, or...
A Transformation Gap?
American Innovations and European Military Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
NATO member states are all undergoing some form of military transformation. Despite a shared vision, transformation has been primarily a US-led process centered on the exploitation of new information technologies in combination with new concepts for "networked organizations" and "effects-based...
Waging War
Alliances, Coalitions, and Institutions of Interstate Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Military alliances provide constraints and opportunities for states seeking to advance their interests around the globe. War, from the Western perspective, is not a solitary endeavor. Partnerships of all types serve as a foundation for the projection of power and the employment of force. These relationships...
Innovation, Transformation, and War
Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar and Ninewa Provinces, Iraq, 2005-2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Within a year of President George W. Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003, dozens of attacks by insurgents had claimed hundreds of civilian and military lives. Through 2004 and 2005, accounts from returning veterans presaged an unfolding strategic debacle—potentially...
Asian Rivalries
Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
The most typical treatment of international relations is to conceive it as a battle between two antagonistic states volleying back and forth. In reality, interstate relations are often at least two-level games in which decision-makers operate not only in an international environment but also in a...
Forging the Sword
Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have...
Germ Gambits
The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the unthinkable nuclear, biological, and chemical catastrophe. For decades the ability to ascertain whether states are hiding germ weapons programs has been nonexistent because the 1975 bioweapons ban has no inspection...
Coercion, Survival, and War
Why Weak States Resist the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival—but not vice versa. It is therefore the great power that decides whether to escalate a conflict into a crisis by adopting a coercive strategy. In practice, however, the coercive...
by Zaryab Iqbal, Harvey Starr
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
State failure is seen as one of the significant threats to regional and international stability in the current international system. State Failure in the Modern World presents a comprehensive, systematic, and empirically rigorous analysis of the full range of the state failure process in the post-World...
Courting Science
Securing the Foundation for a Second American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
In Courting Science, Damon Coletta offers a novel explanation for the decline of American leadership in world affairs. Whether the American Century ends sooner rather than later may depend on America's capacity for self-reflection and, ultimately, self-restraint when it comes to science, technology,...
It Takes More than a Network
The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed...
Preventing Catastrophe
The Use and Misuse of Intelligence in Efforts to Halt the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Preventing Catastrophe is written by two authors who are experienced "Washington hands" and who understand the interplay between intelligence and policymaking. Both have been personally involved, in the United States and overseas, in pursuing national and international measures to stop the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed...