This book contrasts the EU's new way of 'doing security' with the established, competitive bilateral interplay in the European security sphere and provides a clue to the kind of security politics that will prevail in Europe. A joint Moscow Brussels approach would improve the cha…
"Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong - more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly weaker side won. He con…
"Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong - more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly weaker side won. He con…
Militainment, Inc. offers insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment -or militainment- in contemporary American popular culture, including video games, sports, movies, television, and toy merchandising. Stahl argues that a new interactive mode of mil…
How does the Iraq War affect the future world order? And what kinds of problems has this war brought about, and what is needed to remedy these problems, so as to reconstruct an order in Iraq and beyond? This volume is a collection of essays exploring these issues.
Klappentext Wie wird ein Krieg inszeniert? Wie funktioniert er? Was richtet er an? 21 Reporter und Militärexperten des SPIEGEL recherchierten monatelang die Geschichte eines Krieges, der die Welt mehr verändern wird als den Irak. Die Autoren beginnen am 15. September 2001 in Cam…
Examining the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the Internet, in print media and in cinema, this book looks at the endless stream of images from Iraq while recognizing the way in which the war turned images themselves into weapons.
Examining the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the Internet, in print media and in cinema, this book looks at the endless stream of images from Iraq while recognizing the way in which the war turned images themselves into weapons.
Partly on the strength of their apparent success in "small wars" such as Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class, if not world-beating. Yet under British control Basra degenerated into a lawless city riven with militia violen…
Argues that removing American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan will allow for better focus on countering the forces of racial Islam.