Catálogo de libros: Guerra y defensa

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  • Rhetoric of Soft Power
    Craig Hayden
    The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides new insight into the global growth of the soft power concept, through a comprehensive, comparative analysis of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives. The book addresses the interdisciplinary implications of soft power, that draws together insights from international communication and int...
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    156,51 €

  • Afghanistan
    As the international security forces prepare to depart from Afghanistan, this Adelphiturns attention to the ability of a ravaged country to tackle its myriad security problems,overcome crippling poverty and corruption and somehow revive its devastatedeconomy. ...
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    51,26 €

  • Collision Over Vietnam
    Don Harten / Harten Harten
    On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided midair, killing eight men as both planes exploded over the South China Sea. In Collision Over Vietnam, Lieutenant D...
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    24,44 €

  • Collision Over Vietnam
    Don Harten
    On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided midair, killing eight men as both planes exploded over the South China Sea. In Collision Over Vietnam, Lieutenant D...
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    12,88 €

  • Atlas ICBM Missile Weapon System Technical Manual
    United States Air Force
    The first ICBM to be developed and deployed by the United States, the Atlas had a range of 5500 nautical miles and could achieve a speed of 15,500 mph. Depending on configuration, it could be equipped with either a W-49 (1.45 megaton) or W-38 (4.5 megaton) thermonuclear warhead. The Atlas' development can be traced to a series of research and development studies performed in ...
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    48,26 €

  • Atlas ICBM Missile Weapon System Technical Manual
    United States Air Force
    The first ICBM to be developed and deployed by the United States, the Atlas had a range of 5500 nautical miles and could achieve a speed of 15,500 mph. Depending on configuration, it could be equipped with either a W-49 (1.45 megaton) or W-38 (4.5 megaton) thermonuclear warhead. The Atlas’ development can be traced to a series of research and development studies performed in ...
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    43,66 €

  • Governing Ethnic Conflict
    Andrew Finlay
    This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. ...
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    79,03 €

  • Promoting Collective Security in Africa
    Solomon Hailu
    The collective security system has been a problem in developing regions, particularly Africa. Western powers have less interest in sharing responsibility and there seems to be no alternative but that collective security should rely heavily on Africans themselves under the auspices of the newly established African Union (AU). ...
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    61,45 €

  • Real Leadership and the U.S. Army
    John B. Richardson / John BRichardson / Strategic Studies Institute
    This monograph begins with a case study that provides a means for analyzing the complexity of organizational leadership in the contemporary security environment. As such, it presents a high stakes problem-set that required an operational adaptation by a cavalry squadron conducting combat operations in Baghdad. This problematic reality triggered the struggle to find a creative r...
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    21,50 €

  • Border Challenge
    Andrews / T Michael Andrews / T. Michael Andrews / TMichael Andrews
    This book presents an insider’s view of the federal government’s dual mission to stop the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and to prevent streams of drug money from financing drug cartels, insurgents, and terrorists. Andrews focuses on current challenges facing federal drug enforcement agencies. ...
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    51,96 €

  • Globalization and Borders
    Leanne Weber / Sharon Pickering
    This book analyzesthe political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities. ...
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    65,07 €

  • National Security under the Obama Administration
    An initial assessment of President Obama’s foreign and national security policy, this volume brings together a unique collection of American and non-American scholars to examine various institutional, regional, and major policy dimensions of contemporary US engagement with the world. All contributors have been associated with a series of US foreign and national security policy ...
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    65,07 €

  • Explaining the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy
    An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The contributions to this volume bring together sophisticated theoretical frameworks and extensive empirical research. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU’s CSDP. ...
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    65,03 €

  • The Great Powers versus the Hegemon
    Ehsan M. Ahrari
    This is a study of great power relations - China, India, and Russia - among themselves and with the hegemon (United States). Ahrari argues that the next decade may witness the emergence of a bipolar order where China’s dominance in economics is certain; however, China will not seriously challenge the military dominance of the US. ...
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    64,97 €

  • The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction
    Fulvio Attinà
    The Watergate crisis continues to cast a long shadow over American politics. So many of the issues we confront today have their roots in the scandals of the Nixon administration. In this volume, a collection of essays by political scientists and historians from the United States and the United Kingdom, the contributors trace many of today’s problems directly back to the Waterga...
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    64,98 €

  • Nuclear Proliferation and International Order
    Olav Njølstad
    This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century. ...
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    78,41 €

  • Blair’s Just War
    Peter Lee
    Bringing together both contemporary and historical Just War concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair’s illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraq invasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and applied in a global political system where they no longer hold sway. ...
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    66,60 €

  • Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force
    Chiyuki Aoi
    This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. ...
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    78,41 €

  • U.S. Government Counterterrorism
    Edward Marks / Michael Kraft
    Presenting a rare insider’s view of the counterterrorism effort, this volume is the first readily available, unclassified guide to the many U.S. government agencies, bureau offices, and programs involved in all aspects of countering terrorism domestically and overseas. Veterans of the U.S. government’s counterterrorism efforts, the authors address such topics as government trai...
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    375,49 €

  • In the Hands of the Arabs
    Zetton Buchanan
    A woman in IraqThis book of a woman’s ordeal at the hands of Arabs in post First World War Mesopotamia (now modern day Iraq) is such a riveting account that to describe too much would be to spoil the experience for the reader. The young wife and mother, Zetton Buchanan, had joined her husband, Captain ’Billy’ Buchanan of the RAF, on his eastern posting with a degree of expectat...
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    30,63 €

  • In the Hands of the Arabs
    Zetton Buchanan
    A woman in IraqThis book of a woman’s ordeal at the hands of Arabs in post First World War Mesopotamia (now modern day Iraq) is such a riveting account that to describe too much would be to spoil the experience for the reader. The young wife and mother, Zetton Buchanan, had joined her husband, Captain ’Billy’ Buchanan of the RAF, on his eastern posting with a degree of expectat...
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    18,76 €

  • The Only One Who Got Away
    Gunther Pl Schow / Gunther Pluschow
    An outstanding story of the aerial war and a daring escape from captivityFor the uninitiated this book’s original title, ’My Escape from Donnington Hall,’ gave few clues as to the astonishing and unique nature of its contents. Its author was a young German, Gunther Plüschow. As an airman in German service at the outbreak of the First World War he was, unusually, serving in Chin...
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    30,79 €

  • The Only One Who Got Away
    Gunther Pl Schow / Gunther Pluschow
    An outstanding story of the aerial war and a daring escape from captivityFor the uninitiated this book’s original title, ’My Escape from Donnington Hall,’ gave few clues as to the astonishing and unique nature of its contents. Its author was a young German, Gunther Plüschow. As an airman in German service at the outbreak of the First World War he was, unusually, serving in Chin...
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    18,93 €

  • Nike Missile and Test Equipment
    Missile and Munitions Center and School
    The development of jet aircraft during WWII also signaled that a new era in anti-aircraft defense had arrived. To counter the emerging threat, the U.S. Army commissioned Project Nike. Developed by Bell Laboratories, Nike was an ambitious radar-controlled missile system that initially targeted bombers flying at 500 mph and at up to 60,000 feet. At that distance a conventional...
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    14,14 €

  • Negotiating the Arctic
    E.C.H Keskitalo
    This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics analysis based on organization developments from the late 1970s to the present, shows that international region discourse has largely been forwarded through the extensiv...
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    93,30 €

  • Italy’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century
    Italy’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The New Assertiveness of an Aspiring Middle Power, edited by Giampiero Giacomello and Bertjan Verbeek, fills a gap in the middle powers literature in general because of its focus on Italy. Relying on insights from foreign policy analysis, it offers an innovative theoretical inroad into Italian foreign policy by linking Europea...
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    141,52 €

  • Smart Grid Security
    Gilbert N. Sorebo / Michael C. Echols
    The Smart Grid has the potential to revolutionize electricity delivery systems, and the security of its infrastructure is a vital concern. This volume explores the important techniques, challenges, and forces that will shape how we achieve a secure 21st century electric grid. The authors discuss the technical details about how metering technology is being implemented and the li...
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    240,60 €

  • When the State Fails
    Tunde Zack-Williams
    Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention.The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over in 2002 after UK, UN and regional African military intervention. Some claimed ...
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    48,45 €

  • Titan I Missile Weapon System Operation and Organizational Maintenance Manual
    United States Air Force
    Equipped with a W38 thermonuclear warhead and with a range of 5,500 nautical miles, the Titan I was the Air Force’s first multi-stage intercontinental ballistic missile, and a vital part of America’s nuclear arsenal in the years 1961-1965. Designed and built by the Glen L. Martin Company (later Martin Marietta), the HGM-25A/SM-68A missile was the first in a series of Titan roc...
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    43,66 €

  • Blair’s Just War
    Peter Lee
    Bringing together both contemporary and historical Just War concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair’s illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraq invasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and applied in a global political system where they no longer hold sway. ...
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    65,25 €


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