From Operation Desert Storm to the conflict in Bosnia, computerization and other scientific advances have brought about a revolution in warfare. This book shows how our high-tech age has spawned both increasingly powerful weapons and a rhetoric that disguises their apocalyptic p…
Coker offers a new & provocative thesis about the future of war, arguing that biotechnology has provided the institution with a new lease of life.
Coker offers a new & provocative thesis about the future of war, arguing that biotechnology has provided the institution with a new lease of life.
Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a new account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. It contains much new information drawn…
Als Frontfrau des ZDF für Nachrichten und politische Analyse bietet Marietta Slomka verlässliche Orientierung durch die tagespolitische Komplexität. In ihrem neuen Buch erklärt sie, wie das Räderwerk der Politik eigentlich funktioniert. Ausgehend von konkreten Fragestellungen (e…
Political scientist Robert Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide terrorist attack in the world from 1980 until today. Here he provides a groundbreaking demographic profile of modern suicide terrorist attackers--and his findings offer a powerful count…
Addressing four major areas of concern--the shift of global power from West to East; the causes and consequences of America's declining global appeal; what would happen if America suffered long-term decline; and how America can reorient its geopolitical goals to prevent it--fore…
In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhil…
"From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a lively, provocative, and eminently readable reexamination of American foreign policy, capturing not only its extraordinary achievements but the diplomatic missteps, intellectual confusion, and political…