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American Leadership in World Affairs

Vietnam and the Breakdown of Consensus

By: Ole R. Holsti,James N. Rosenau

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American Leadership in World Affairs

Vietnam and the Breakdown of Consensus

By: Ole R. Holsti,James N. Rosenau

This book, first published in 1984, provides a wealth of original evidence that explores not only the impact of the Vietnam War on the beliefs of American leaders – the ‘lessons’ they believed had been learnt by Americans from the conflict in Vietnam.

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Routledge

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1000504581

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9781000504583

Common Sense Economics

What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity

By: James D. Gwartney,Richard L. Stroup,Dwight R. Lee,Tawni Hunt Ferrarini

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Common Sense Economics

What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity

By: James D. Gwartney,Richard L. Stroup,Dwight R. Lee,Tawni Hunt Ferrarini

The authors tell us what everyone should know about economics in language we can all understand. It's refreshing when four of the best in the profession avoid the all-too-common practice of writing in a code that only other economists can comprehend." ---Robert McTeer, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas With the global economy recovering from a steep recession, those who fail to grasp basic economic principles such as gains from trade, the role of profit and loss, and the secondary effects of government spending, taxes, and borrowing risk falling behind in their professional careers--even their personal lives. Common Sense Economics discusses key principles and uses them to show how to make wise personal and policy choices. This new edition of a classic from James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. Lee, and Tawni H. Ferrarini, with reflections on the recent recession and the policy response to it, illuminates our world and what might be done to make it better.

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240

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Macmillan

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1429955988

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9781429955980

America at Century's End

By: James R. Schlesinger

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America at Century's End

By: James R. Schlesinger

Describes modern American society, examines America's domestic and foreign policy, and identifies trends in government.

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140

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Columbia University Press

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0231069227

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9780231069229

Victory On The Potomac

The Goldwater-nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon

By: James R. Locher

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Victory On The Potomac

The Goldwater-nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon

By: James R. Locher

War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes political struggle to redesign the relationships among the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and warfighting commanders in the field resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Author James R. Locher III played a key role in the congressional effort to repair a dysfunctional military whose interservice squabbling had cost American taxpayers billions of dollars and put the lives of thousands of servicemen and women at risk. Victory on this front helped make possible the military successes the United States has enjoyed since the passage of the bill and to prepare it for the challenges it must still face.Victory on the Potomac provides the first detailed history of how Congress unified the Pentagon and does so with the benefit of an insider's view. In a fast-paced account that reads like a novel, Locher follows the bill through congressional committee to final passage, making clear that the process is neither abstract nor automatic. His vivid descriptions bring to life the amazing cast of this real-life drama, from the straight-shooting chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Barry Goldwater, to the peevishly stubborn secretary of defense, Caspear Weinberger.Locher's analysis of political maneuvering and bureaucratic infighting will fascinate anyone who has an interest in how government works, and his understanding of the stakes in military reorganization will make clear why this legislative victory meant so much to American military capability. James R. Locher III, a graduate of West Point and Harvard Business School began his career in Washington as an executive trainee in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has worked in the White House, the Pentagon, and the Senate. During the period covered by this book, he was a staff member for the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Since then, he has served as an assistant secretary of defense in the first Bush and the early Clinton administrations. Currently, he works as a consultant and lecturer on defense matters.

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552

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585443980

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9781585443987

At the Borderline of Armageddon

How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb

By: James E. Goodby

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At the Borderline of Armageddon

How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb

By: James E. Goodby

No previous generation of statesmen has had to conduct policy in so unknown an environment at the border line of Armageddon'-Henry Kissinger Nuclear weapons pose a unique challenge to American foreign policy and the American president in particular. The choices the president makes with regard to atomic weapons can change the course of human history and affect the lives of billions of people. In this important new work, scholar, teacher, and diplomat James Goodby analyzes how American presidents have confronted the dilemma of nuclear weapons. Drawing on his own involvement in over fifty years of nuclear policy, he explores specific case studies to illustrate the decision making process and the delicate balance between international cooperation and freedom of action, between the rules of behavior and governmental autonomy.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742570886

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9780742570887

Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence

By: Keith B. Payne,James Schlesinger

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Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence

By: Keith B. Payne,James Schlesinger

The National Institute for Public Policy’s new book, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, is the first of its kind. Dr. Keith Payne, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and an unparalleled bipartisan group of senior civilian and military experts critically examine eight basic assumptions of Minimum Deterrence against available evidence. In general, Minimum Deterrence does not fare well under the careful scrutiny. Proponents of a "Minimum Deterrent" US nuclear force posture believe that anywhere from a handful to a few hundred nuclear weapons are adequate to deter reliably and predictably any enemy from attacking the United States now and in the future. Because nuclear weapons are so destructive, their thinking goes, no foreign leader would dare challenge US capabilities. The benefits, advocates claim, of reducing US nuclear weapons to the "minimum" level needed are: better relations with Russia and China, reinforcement of the arms control and Nonproliferation Treaty, billions of defense dollars in savings, and greater international stability on the way to "nuclear zero." As political pressure builds to pursue this vision of minimum US deterrence, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence stands as the seminal study to address the many claims of great benefit using available evidence. This book was published as a special issue of Comparative Strategy.

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Routledge

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1317671546

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9781317671541

The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century: The geopolitical outlook, 2000-2020

By: Sam Nunn,James R. Schlesinger,Robert E. Ebel

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The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century: The geopolitical outlook, 2000-2020

By: Sam Nunn,James R. Schlesinger,Robert E. Ebel

This three-volume report identifies and evaluates key geopolitical forces that threaten to disrupt the energy environment and alter established relationships between energy-producer and energy-consumer countries over the next 10-15 years. Drawing on the expertise of members of Congress, senior US policy makers, energy experts, and chief executives from leading energy-related companies, analysis examines political and economic transition in key countries, regional security and competition for control of energy resources, the role of technology, the impact of environmental pressures and policies, and the role of energy in fostering regional political and economic integration. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

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Center for Strategic & International Studies

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089206370X

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9780892063703

The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century

By: Sam Nunn,James R. Schlesinger,Robert E. Ebel

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The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century

By: Sam Nunn,James R. Schlesinger,Robert E. Ebel

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Center for Strategic & International Studies

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089206367X

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9780892063673

The American Experiment

The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

By: James MacGregor Burns

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The American Experiment

The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

By: James MacGregor Burns

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. In The Workshop of Democracy, Burns explores more than a half-century of dramatic growth and transformation of the American landscape, through the addition of dozens of new states, the shattering tragedy of the First World War, the explosion of industry, and, in the end, the emergence of the United States as a new global power. And in The Crosswinds of Freedom, Burns offers an articulate and incisive examination of the US during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower—through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rapid pace of technological change that gave rise to the “American Century.”

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Open Road Media

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148043020X

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9781480430204

The Puzzle Palace

A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency

By: James Bamford

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The Puzzle Palace

A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency

By: James Bamford

The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory. In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA’s origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA—where there are close to a dozen underground acres of computers, where a significant part of the world’s communications are monitored, and where reports from a number of super-sophisticated satellite eavesdropping systems are analyzed. He also gives a detailed account of NSA’s complex network of listening posts—both in the United States and throughout much of the rest of the world. When a Soviet general picks up his car telephone to call headquarters, when a New York businessman wires his branch in London, when a Chinese trade official makes an overseas call, when the British Admiralty urgently wants to know the plans and movements of Argentina’s fleet in the South Atlantic—all of these messages become NSA targets. James Bamford’s illuminating book reveals how NSA’s mission of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) has made the human espionage agent almost a romantic figure of the past. Winner Best Investigative Book of the Year Award from Investigative Reporters & Editors “The Puzzle Palace has the feel of an artifact, the darkly revealing kind. Though published during the Reagan years, the book is coolly subversive and powerfully prescient.”—The New Yorker “Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director’s safe.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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1328566897

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9781328566898

Book's by James R. Schlesinger

American Leadership in World Affairs

American Leadership in World Affairs

Common Sense Economics

Common Sense Economics

America at Century's End

America at Century's End

Victory On The Potomac

Victory On The Potomac

At the Borderline of Armageddon

At the Borderline of Armageddon

Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence

Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence

The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century: The geopolitical outlook, 2000-2020

The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century: The geopolitical outlook, 2000-2020

The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century

The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century

The American Experiment

The American Experiment

The Puzzle Palace

The Puzzle Palace

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