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The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan is aptly named and sure to find its lasting place as the first full narrative of the U.S.-led intervention from 2001 through 2014. The timeframe is something of a moving target, depending on where you begin …
It is difficult for me to imagine an international relations (IR) scholar not being interested enough in Bear Braumoeller’s The Great Powers …
A lively and vivid debate is ongoing over the extent, nature, and objectives of a possible shift in the ideological foundations that have …
H-Diplo | ISSF Forum, No. 5 (2015) A production of H-Diplo with the journals Security Studies, International Security, Journal of Strategic Studies, …
Recently, there has been a spate of books dealing with the issue of strategy and its utility. Lawrence Freedman, Colin Gray, Hew …
From the very beginning of the nation’s history, intelligence has been set aside as a conspicuous exception to James Madison’s advocacy of …
Just and Unjust Military Intervention is a superb collection of essays by leading scholars examining the continuing relevance of the political thought …
This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the Congress of Vienna. From September of 1814 to June of 1815, over 200 representatives …
Over the last few decades one of the hottest subjects of debate in the social sciences has been the emergence of ‘cyber’ …
In a timely article, John Mitton seeks to show how the enduring rivalry between India and Pakistan has hampered NATO’s efforts in …
