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War, Welfare & Democracy
Rethinking America's Quest for the End of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
American foreign policy since World War II has actively sought to reshape both domestic and international orders to hasten the coming of the end of history in a peaceful democratic utopia. While the end of the Cold War heightened optimism that this goal was near, policymakers still face dramatic challenges....
Warfare Welfare
The Not-So-Hidden Costs of America's Permanent War Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This edited volume reveals how a permanent war economy has made the United States unable to spread democracy abroad and has worsened domestic problems. The editors draw from classical readings in political theory, from primary documents (including key court decisions), and from social science research...
American Technology Policy
Evolving Strategic Interests after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. policymakers have faced the challenge of addressing the technological requirements of both economic competitiveness and national security. Promoting the technological objectives of competitiveness and security poses a daunting task, as these objectives can differ...
Blinking Red
Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish AmericaÆs new enemiesùstateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential...
Errors and Fouls
Inside Baseball's Ninety-Nie Most Popular Myths
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Handrinos examines the underlying issues that affect all fans: modern game tactics, playoff formats, and baseball economies. The author's contrarian analysis and witty writing makes Errors and Fouls essential reading for anyone wanting to know how today's baseball world really works.
Sand in the Gears
How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape. It is also clear from the dormant...
by John H. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
The Antarctic is the last vast terrestrial frontier. Just over a century ago, no one had ever seen the South Pole. Today odd machines and adventure skiers from many nations converge there every summer, arriving from numerous starting points on the Antarctic coast and returning some other way. But not...
Stories from Langley
A Glimpse inside the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National...
Megaquake
How Japan and the World Should Respond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor. Nearly twenty thousand people were killed or went missing, and many areas have yet to rebuild. Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond,...
by Carolyn Han
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle East—Yemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. The...
Trial By Gas
The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years. The vision of those senseless deaths becomes even harsher and more depraved when...
Games' Most Wanted
The Top 10 Book of Players, Pawns, and Power-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Ever thought about capturing a queen, amassing real estate gold, or striking down a zombie or two? For centuries, games have stimulated the imagination. They have divided, and they have united. They have driven our competitive spirit and indulged our fancy. Live an entire lifetime in a few rolls of...
Killing without Heart
Limits on Robotic Warfare in an Age of Persistent Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The days of large force-on-force engagements with conventional fielded armies are seemingly gone. TodayÆs persistent conflict, conducted among civilian populations and fought by small bands of combatants, will be remembered for this alteration in the tapestry of war and for the first large-scale...
by Orlando J. Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Every ten years political representation in the U.S.House of Representatives is redistributed (reapportioned) among the fifty states.The process began anew with the 2010 census, which is counting the nation's population as the basis for reapportionment.The decennial census has a history wrought with...