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| Preface | |
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| Conceptual Context | |
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| The Changing Problem of National Security | |
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| The Nature of Change | |
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| How Much Has Changed? | |
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| New Dynamics in the Environment | |
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| CHALLENGE! Your Own Personal Inventory | |
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| Obama's (Potential) Dramas | |
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| Conclusion: Where from Here? | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| The Realist Paradigm | |
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| Realism and the Realist Paradigm | |
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| Basic Concepts and Relationships | |
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| Sovereignty | |
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| Vital Interests | |
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| Finding the Boundary Between Vital and Less-than-Vital Interests in Iran | |
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| Power Politics | |
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| Measuring Power | |
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| Paradigm Implications | |
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| Critiques and Anomalies of the Realist Paradigm | |
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| Critiques | |
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| Realists, Neoconservatives, and the Iraq War | |
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| Anomalies | |
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| CHALLENGE! Obama, the ICC, and Bush "War Crimes"? | |
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| Conclusion: The Realist Paradigm Today | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Security, Interests, and Power | |
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| Thinking About Security | |
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| Military and Nonmilitary Elements of Security | |
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| CHALLENGE! Defining Terrorism as a Security Threat | |
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| Israel, Syria, the Golan Heights, and Water | |
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| Levels of Security | |
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| Risk and Risk Management | |
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| What Should the United States Do About North Korea? | |
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| Thinking About Interests | |
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| Levels of Interests | |
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| Vital and Less-than-Vital Interests and Afghanistan | |
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| Security and Interests in the Contemporary Environment | |
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| Applying Instruments of Power | |
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| Using the Instruments | |
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| The Contemporary Balance of Instruments of Power | |
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| Conclusion: The Changing Nature of Influence | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| The American Experience | |
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| Conditioning Factors in the American Tradition | |
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| American Ahistoricism | |
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| Accident of Geography | |
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| The Anglo-Saxon Heritage | |
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| Dealing with Dependence on Persian Gulf Oil | |
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| Evolution of the American Experience | |
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| The Formative Period, 1789-1945 | |
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| Antimilitary Bias | |
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| The Citizen-Soldier | |
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| Myth of Invincibility | |
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| Mobilization and Demobilization | |
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| Total War Preference | |
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| Readiness and Pearl Harbor | |
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| The Cold War, 1945-1989 | |
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| The Role of the Media | |
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| The Impact of Democratic Institutions | |
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| The Media and the Iraq War | |
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| Professionalization of the Military | |
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| CONCLUSION: The Contemporary Period, 1989 to the Present | |
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| CHALLENGE! How Much Has Changed? | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| The Domestic Environment | |
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| Extremism in the Defense of Liberty | |
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| The Historical Domestic Context | |
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| The Structure of Domestic Politics | |
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| The Executive Branch | |
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| The President, the Constitution, and National Security | |
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| The Congress | |
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| The Congress, the Constitution, and National Security | |
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| Applications: The Homeland Security Response to the Environment | |
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| The Department of Homeland Security | |
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| Background and Evolution | |
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| The Homeland Security Response to September 11 | |
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| Ongoing Problems and Controversies | |
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| CHALLENGE! The "Angry Librarians" and Civil Liberties | |
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| Conclusion: The Environment Since September 11, 2001 | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Historical Context | |
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| Fault Lines | |
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| The First Fault Line: The World After the Cold War | |
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| Russian Resurgence? | |
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| Undeniable Benefits | |
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| Debatable Changes | |
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| The Second Fault Line: The World After September 11 | |
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| The Rules of War: Who Is a POW? | |
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| Toward the New International System? | |
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| Paradigm Choices | |
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| The American Role in the New World System | |
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| The Post-9/11 Era? | |
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| Conclusion: The Continuing Role of Force | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| The Nature and End of the Cold War | |
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| The Cold War System | |
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| Characteristics | |
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| Better Dead than Red? Better Red than Dead? | |
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| Sources of Change | |
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| Forms of Military Competition | |
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| Conventional Forces | |
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| Nuclear Forces | |
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| The Capitalist Bomb | |
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| Deadlock of the Competition | |
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| The Economic Dimension | |
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| The Military Dimension | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Cold War Residues | |
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| Russia and the Successor States | |
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| Chechnya and the Pipeline | |
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| Russian Resurgence | |
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| CHALLENGE! What Kind of Russia? | |
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| Conclusion: The End of the Cold War in Perspective | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Globalization and Beyond | |
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| The Bretton Woods System, 1945-1971 | |
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| The Setting | |
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| The Bretton Woods Institutions | |
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| The ITO and the Anti-Free Traders | |
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| The Breakdown of Bretton Woods | |
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| The Transitional Period, 1971-1990 | |
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| American Decline | |
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| American Revival | |
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| The Globalizing Economy, 1990-Present | |
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| Characteristics and Values | |
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| Objections to Globalization | |
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| The Rejectionists | |
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| The United States in a Multipolar Economic Environment | |
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| New Additions to the National Security Agenda | |
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| Conclusion: Globalization and Other Factors in American Security | |
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| CHALLENGE! Other National Security Challenges? | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Legacies of 9/11 | |
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| Defining Terrorism | |
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| Terrorist Acts | |
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| Terrorist Targets | |
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| Terrorist Objectives | |
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| The United States-Al Qaeda Standoff? | |
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| Perspectives on and Causes of Terrorism | |
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| Three Perspectives | |
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| Three Causes | |
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| Profiling Suicide Terrorists | |
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| Terrorism Since September 11 | |
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| Other Legacies | |
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| The Problem of Torture | |
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| Pakistan and the Law of Unintended Consequences | |
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| Conclusion: Terrorism, Torture, and Unintended Consequences | |
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| CHALLENGE! Terrorism and You! | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Ongoing Military Problems | |
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| Nuclear Forces and Deterrence | |
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| Seminal Events of the Nuclear Age | |
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| Theories of Deterrence | |
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| Nuclear Residues | |
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| Iranian Proliferation and Israel | |
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| The Chinese Nuclear Threat | |
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| Traditional Forces and the Future | |
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| The Heavy Forces (Conventional) Model | |
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| The Light Forces (Unconventional) Model | |
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| Light or Heavy Futures? | |
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| Traditional Residues | |
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| Light and Heavy Forces? | |
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| Military Manpower | |
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| CHALLENGE! Military Service After Iraq | |
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| Military Reform | |
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| Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Traditional Forces | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| New Challenges | |
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| Asymmetrical Warfare: The "New Kind of War" | |
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| Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Warfare | |
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| Evolution of Asymmetrical Warfare | |
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| Sun Tzu on Asymmetrical Warfare | |
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| The Contemporary Setting | |
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| Asymmetrical Futures? | |
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| Fourth-Generation Warfare | |
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| New Internal Wars | |
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| Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan | |
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| Conclusion: New Form or New Face of War? | |
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| CHALLENGE! Is There a New Kind of War? | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| The Unresolved Dilemmas in Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| The Afghanistan War | |
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| The Road to War: Was the United States Justified? | |
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| Was the Mission Feasible? | |
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| What Went Wrong and Why? | |
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| Afghanistan as a War of Necessity | |
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| How Will the Afghanistan War End? | |
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| Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda | |
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| The Iraq War | |
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| The Road to War: Was the United States Justified? | |
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| Hidden Agendas in Iraq | |
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| Was the Mission Feasible? | |
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| What Went Wrong and Why? | |
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| Iraq as a War of Choice | |
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| How Will the Iraq War End? | |
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| The Legacies of Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| The Political Legacy: Be Careful Where You Intervene | |
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| The Military Legacy: What Kind of Foe to Prepare For | |
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| Afghanistan, Iraq and the American Military: What Kind of Force | |
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| CHALLENGE! The Draft Option | |
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| Conclusion: Security After Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Terrorism, Peacekeeping, and State Building | |
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| The Contemporary Scene | |
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| Dealing with Terrorism | |
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| Antiterrorism and Counterterrorism | |
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| The Cost-Effectiveness of Suppressing Terrorism | |
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| International and National Efforts | |
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| Objectives of the Effort | |
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| Peacekeeping and State Building | |
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| Basic Distinctions | |
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| Peacekeeping | |
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| The Talk-Shoot Relationship in Peacekeeping | |
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| State Building | |
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| KFOR and UNMIK | |
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| CHALLENGE! What Should the United States Do in Afghanistan? | |
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| Conclusion: The Future of Terrorism, Peacekeeping, and State Building | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Extending Security Under Obama | |
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| Preview | |
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| Border Security | |
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| The Physical Problem | |
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| Border Threats | |
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| National Resources Security | |
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| An Impenetrable Border? | |
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| Petroleum Energy Security | |
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| CHALLENGE! Oil and Terror | |
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| Water Security | |
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| Environmental Security | |
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| Global Warming | |
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| The United States, Kyoto, and Copenhagen | |
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| Hurricane Katrina | |
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| Health/Disease Security | |
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| Conclusion: Expanded Security Horizons | |
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| Study/Discussion Questions | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |