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The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into...
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Published just days before the ink was dry on the treaty with Iran, author Mehdi Sarram holds a postgraduate degree from the University of Michigan, a professional engineer with 47 years of nuclear experience and has traveled to 38 countries with nuclear programs. He was a US Atomic Energy Commission Senior Reactor Operator in 1965. Mr. Sarram was a professor at the University of Tehran 1968-1974 and one of eight directors of the Atomic Energy Organization...
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"2020: A Pivotal Year?" addresses the impacts of the COVID-19 disruption on global politics and provides assessments of the ripple effects felt throughout Europe and Asia. The book brings together several key essays written during 2020 and in early 2021 from our websites, Second Line of Defense and Defense.info, which focus on geopolitical change and defense modernization. Authors based in Europe, the United States, and Australia have all contributed...
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En mars 2013, une coalition hétéroclite de groupes armés, la Séléka, renverse le président Bozizé de la République centrafricaine (RCA), au pouvoir depuis 2003. Ce coup d'État réduit à néant plus de quinze années d'effort de consolidation de la paix et confirme l'extrême fragilité des institutions centrafricaines. Il force également la communauté internationale à s'interroger sur la pertinence de ces interventions, dont celles des...
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objetivos y estrategias utilizadas por un actor no estatal (las FARC-
EP) para insertarse internacionalmente durante y después de la
guerra fría? La investigación surge a raíz de la constatación de una
ausencia de trabajos académicos que exploren, analicen o expliquen
la actividad internacional de un actor no estatal como las FARC-EP, y
los factores de orden nacional e internacional que han posibilitado
dicha actividad, especialmente al terminar...
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The book shows that from the last two decades of the twentieth century and the end of the Cold War in 1991, a shift occurred in inter-American geopolitics as the United States emerged as the dominant global structural power. The post-Cold War international relations and new geopolitics are predominantly driven by geoeconomic rationales and outclass the old Cold War geopolitics overwhelmingly dominated by state politics and security strategies. The...
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"Winner of the 2015 Best Book, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association" Vipin Narang is the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science and a member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often face multiple...
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With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republics nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran's nuclear ambitions. For some, the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iran is ironclad. An Iranian bomb would flood the volatile Middle East with nuclear weapons and trap Israel in a state of perilous insecurity along with much of the...
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In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the prime minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, launched a new defense and security strategy for Australia. This strategy reset puts Australia on the path of enhanced defense capabilities. The change represents a serious shift in its policies towards China, and in reworking alliance relationships going forward. "Joint by Design" is focused on Australian policy, but it is about preparing liberal democracies around...
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"Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. policymakers and military strategists cannot afford to get wrong, and scholars cannot afford to ignore."
- Michael Green, former Senior Director for Asian Affairs National Security Council
The Showdown to Come
In 1995, during a heated discussion about that year's...
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Despite the fact that arms manufacturing in most Western nations ultimately represents vast fortunes of public funds flowing into private coffers for products that deal in injury or death, the industry is usually represented as a source of national pride. So pervasive is its influence that when it comes to matters of spending on arms, the tail often wags the dog, with the requirements of the industry being put before effective strategy. In this easy-to-read...
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"A splendidly illuminating book."
-The New York Times
Like it or not, George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions once imposed on its freedom of action. In America Unbound, Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay caution that the Bush revolution comes with serious risks–and, at some point, we may find that...
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Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts.
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Depuis une trentaine d'années, on a tendance à amplifier, parfois grossièrement, la portée de la mondialisation et à en déformer la réalité. Selon plusieurs, l'accélération de la mondialisation conduit à l'avènement d'un monde « sans frontières », exacerbant la concurrence entre les nations.
Ces critiques face à la mondialisation sont-elles justifiées? C'est en examinant les données sur la performance économique et sociale des...
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Para afianzar la guerra en el mercado, ésta fue convertida en algo permanente, total, preventivo; con un enemigo interno y difuso que pudiera ser cualquiera y estar en todas partes. Bajo la concepción y estrategia norteamericana, este sistema ha adquirido una dimensión violenta con la que se definen a conveniencia las amenazas y se construye cada tanto la concepción mundial de enemigo. No obstante, lo que impulsa a la economía estadounidense...
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Más conocida por su guerra civil, Colombia es un país diestro en buscar negociaciones con guerrillas, paramilitares y narcos, pero ha sido mucho menos diestra en la construcción de unas instituciones políticas eficaces, de un territorio integrado y de una sociedad decente.
Este ensayo recorre la historia de esos múltiples intentos de paz "tan antiguos como el conflicto armado". Está escrito por quien ha sido testigo del último gran intento...
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The mortal danger of nuclear weapons is unique in its terrifying potential for devastation on an unprecedented and unimaginable scale. In this book, Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby-each with more than twenty years' experience in national security issues both in public and private capacities-review the main policy issues surrounding nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. They address the specific actions that the community of nations-with American...
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