Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Strategic Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region
Russia, Deterrence, and Reassurance
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
How should the countries in the Baltic Sea region and their allies meet the strategic challenges posed by an openly aggressive and expansionist Russia? NATO and the nonaligned states in the region are now more concerned about an external threat than they have been since the end of the Cold War. Russia...
Soviet Leaders and Intelligence
Assessing the American Adversary during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States. Although effective on an operational level, Soviet leaders and their intelligence chiefs fell short when it came to analyzing intelligence. Soviet leaders were often...
by Alison Lawlor Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Cyber Blockades is the first book to examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data. Cyber blockades can take place through digital, physical, and/or electromagnetic...
Transhumanism and Transcendence
Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement. Athletes use drugs to increase their strength or stamina; cosmetic surgery is widely used to improve physical appearance; millions of men take drugs...
Dental Ethics at Chairside
Professional Obligations and Practical Applications, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the last two decades, more than ever before dentists must determine how to properly maintain their focus on ethics and professionalism in the face of powerful commercial pressures. While there is encouragement for ethical conduct within the dental profession, there is still relatively little...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This is the first book to examine challenges in the healthcare sector in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain). These countries experienced remarkably swift transformations from small fishing and pearling communities...
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military
An International Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and United Nations peacekeeping operations. This book brings a much-needed crossnational analysis of how...
Innovative Strategies for Heritage Language Teaching
A Practical Guide for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Heritage language (HL) learning and teaching presents particularly difficult challenges. Melding cutting-edge research with innovations in teaching practice, the contributors in this volume provide practical knowledge and tools that introduce new solutions informed by linguistic, sociolinguistic, and...
Why Peace Fails
The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why peace "sticks" after some wars but not others? In this illuminating study, Charles T. Call examines the factors behind fifteen...
Sex, Violence, and Justice
Contraception and the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
In 1968, Pope Paul VI published Humanae vitae, the encyclical that reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s continued opposition to the use of any form of artificial contraception. In Sex, Violence, and Justice: Contraception and the Catholic Church, Aline Kalbian outlines the Church’s position against artificial...
Strategy, Evolution, and War
From Apes to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things – with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence...
Insurgent Women
Female Combatants in Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when war ends. This book uses three case studies...
Russia Abroad
Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Further, deliberate “un-regioning,” applied by actors external as well as internal to...
by Mohammad T. Alhawary
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Despite the status of Arabic as a global language and the high demand to learn it, the field of Arabic second language acquisition remains underinvestigated. Second language acquisition findings are crucial for informing and advancing the field of Arabic foreign language pedagogy including Arabic...