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Castles, Battles, and Bombs

How Economics Explains Military History

By: Jurgen Brauer,Hubert van Tuyll

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How Economics Explains Military History

By: Jurgen Brauer,Hubert van Tuyll

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0226071642

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War and Nature

The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World

By: Jurgen Brauer

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War and Nature

The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World

By: Jurgen Brauer

The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments. War and Nature sifts through the available data from past wars to evaluate the actual impact that combat has on natural surroundings. Examining conflicts of various kinds_he long war in tropical Vietnam, the relatively brief and highly technical wars in the Persian Gulf, and various civil wars in Africa and South-Central Asia fought with small arms_Brauer asks whether differences in technology, location, and duration are critical in causing environmental and humanitarian harm. A number of unexpected conclusions are drawn from this data, including practical agendas for collecting scientific evidence in future wars and suggestions about what the world's environmental and conservation organizations can do. One thing War and Nature does is to show us how globalization can be a force harnessed for good ends.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0759119295

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9780759119291

Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention

By: Charles H. Anderton,Jurgen Brauer

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Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention

By: Charles H. Anderton,Jurgen Brauer

This edited collection by 41 accomplished scholars examines economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention. Chapters include numerous case studies (e.g., California's Yana people, Australia's Aborigines peoples, Stalin's killing of Ukrainians, Belarus, the Holocaust, Rwanda, DR Congo, Indonesia, Pakistan, Colombia, Mexico's drug wars, and the targeting of suspects during the Vietnam war), probing literature reviews, and completely novel work based on extraordinary country-specific datasets. Also included are chapters on the demographic, gendered, and economic class nature of genocide.

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Oxford University Press

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0199378290

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The Economics of Regional Security

NATO, the Mediterranean and Southern Africa

By: Jurgen Brauer,Keith Hartley

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The Economics of Regional Security

NATO, the Mediterranean and Southern Africa

By: Jurgen Brauer,Keith Hartley

This important book explores the threats and challenges to regional security, for Nato, in the Mediterranean, and in the sub-Saharan countries, namely southern Africa. Written and edited by leading researchers, the volume's significance lies in its demonstration of how concepts from economics and other social science disciplines can be applied to important issues of defence, conflict and peace at the regional level.

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Routledge

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1134960549

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The Economics of Conflict and Peace

By: Jurgen Brauer,William G. Gissy

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The Economics of Conflict and Peace

By: Jurgen Brauer,William G. Gissy

A collection of original research papers on economic aspects of conflict and peace, including a number of papers on developing nations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351891146

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American Intelligence And The German Resistance

A Documentary History

By: Jurgen Heideking

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American Intelligence And The German Resistance

A Documentary History

By: Jurgen Heideking

Even paranoids have enemies. Hitler's most powerful foes were the Allied powers, but he also feared internal conspiracies bent on overthrowing his malevolent regime. In fact, there was a small but significant internal resistance to the Nazi regime, and it did receive help from the outside world. Through recently declassified intelligence documents, this book reveals for the first time the complete story of America's wartime knowledge about, encouragement of, and secret collaboration with the German resistance to Hitler?including the famous July 20th plot to assassinate the Fuehrer.The U.S. government's secret contacts with the anti-Nazi resistance were conducted by the OSS, the World War II predecessor to the CIA. Highly sensitive intelligence reports recently released by the CIA make it evident that the U.S. government had vast knowledge of what was going on inside the Third Reich. For example, a capitulation offer to the western Allies under consideration by Count von Moltke in 1943 was thoroughly discussed within the U.S. government. And Allen Dulles, who was later to become head of the CIA, was well informed about the legendary plot of July 20th. In fact, these secret reports from inside Germany provide a well-rounded picture of German society, revealing the pro- or anti-Nazi attitudes of different social groups (workers, churches, the military, etc.). The newly released documents also show that scholars in the OSS, many of them recruited from ivy-league universities, looked for anti-Nazi movements and leaders to help create a democratic Germany after the war.Such intelligence gathering was a major task of the OSS. However, OSS director ?Wild Bill? Donovan and others favored subversive operations, spreading disinformation, and issuing propaganda. Unorthodox and often dangerous schemes were developed, including bogus ?resistance newspapers,? anti-Nazi letters and postcards distributed through the German postal service, sabotage, and fake radio broadcasts from ?German generals? calling for uprisings against the regime.This is much more than a documentary collection. Explanatory footnotes supply a wealth of background information for the reader, and a comprehensive introduction puts the documents into their wider historical perspective. Arranged in chronological order, these intelligence reports provide a fascinating new perspective on the story of the German resistance to Hitler and reveal an intriguing and previously unexplored aspect of America's war with Hitler.

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0429981988

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9780429981982

The Anabaptists

By: Hans-Jurgen Goertz

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The Anabaptists

By: Hans-Jurgen Goertz

The Anabaptists were at the radical, utopian edge of the Reformation, ruthlessly repressed by Catholic, Lutheran and secular authorities alike. Hans-Jurgen Goertz gives a comprehensive account of their political and religious significance, their views, and their social setting within the wider context of the Reformation. Particular attention is paid to the role and experience of women and of 'ordinary' Anabaptists in addition to those of the educated elite. Whilst the focus of the book is on Germany, extensive coverage is also given to Anabaptism in England, Switzerland, the Netherlands and elsewhere. This English edition includes a new introduction which considers the historiographical context of the book. The opening chapter has also been expanded to include a section on the emergence of Anabaptism in England. The Anabaptists has been fully revised since its publication in German, and takes account of the most recent historiography on the subject. It also includes a selection of primary sources together with a full listing of important Anabaptist works.

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1135088675

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The Economics of Conflict and Peace

History and Applications

By: Shikha Basnet Silwal,Charles H. Anderton,Jurgen Brauer,Christopher J. Coyne,J. Paul Dunne

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The Economics of Conflict and Peace

History and Applications

By: Shikha Basnet Silwal,Charles H. Anderton,Jurgen Brauer,Christopher J. Coyne,J. Paul Dunne

Written for an audience of students, general readers, and economists alike, this Element is a primer on the field of the economics of conflict and peace. It offers a reasonably comprehensive, systematic, and detailed overview - even if in broad strokes - of the field's orthodox and heterodox history of thought and current theories and evidence. The authors view this Element as a baseline account on which to build a future, separate and more fully developed, work on the economics of peace, economic growth, and human development. Altogether, the Element contextualizes the field of conflict and peace economics, outlines its history of thought, highlights examples of current theoretical and empirical scholarship in the field, and maps trajectories for further research.

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Cambridge University Press

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110892624X

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Arms Trade and Economic Development

Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets

By: Jurgen Brauer,Paul Dunne

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Arms Trade and Economic Development

Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets

By: Jurgen Brauer,Paul Dunne

With the US invasion of Iraq, the issue of arms trading is once again at the forefront of world events. Arms-importing countries often ask their suppliers to 'offset' the cost by reinvesting some of the money in their country.

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1134329466

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The Economics of Conflict and Peace

By: Jurgen Brauer,William G. Gissy

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The Economics of Conflict and Peace

By: Jurgen Brauer,William G. Gissy

This work addresses new directions in research on the economic theory of conflict, the cost of war, and the benefits of peace. A collection of 17 papers drawing on contributors from all continents, the volume is divided into four sections. The first discusses novel ways to think about the economics of conflict and peace from theory perspectives. These include discussions of conflict from the perspectives of standard neoclassical analysis and economic geography. An especially interesting paper in this section addresses conflict in the context of the emerging theory of international public finance. A second section deals with military expenditures, economic/human development and economic growth in the US and developing nations of Asia and Africa. The volume enters new territory in sections three and four. Section three contains a set of papers on the economic cost of war and war’s aftermath, significantly expanding economists’ rather modest efforts to date. Section four is concerned with how the concepts of economics might be operationalized and institutionalized to foster security.

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1351891138

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Arms Trade and Economic Development

Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets

By: Jurgen Brauer,Paul Dunne

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Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets

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Castles, Battles, and Bombs

How Economics Explains Military History

By: Jurgen Brauer,Hubert van Tuyll

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Castles, Battles, and Bombs

How Economics Explains Military History

By: Jurgen Brauer,Hubert van Tuyll

From the walls of Troy to the sands of Iraq, humans have devoted staggering resources to the art and science of war. Yet while military history has long studied the economics of conflict, until now there have been few attempts to apply the principles of economics to military history.In "Castles, Battles, and Bombs", Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll reconsider key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army.Similarly, great commanders of the Age of Battle such as Napoleon, Marlborough, and Frederick the Great are shown to have engaged in cost-benefit calculations: because the risk of losing an entire army usually far outweighed the potential spoils of victory, they actually chose to fight relatively few large engagements. The authors also reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and provide new insights into France's decision to develop nuclear weapons. Drawing on these examples and more, Brauer and van Tuyll suggest lessons for today's military, from counterterrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq.Innovative and thought-provoking - and written to be grasped by readers without a background in economics - "Castles, Battles, and Bombs" opens up a new perspective on war and strategy, sure to fascinate history buffs, scholars, and students alike.

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0226071634

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War and Nature

The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World

By: Jurgen Brauer

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The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World

By: Jurgen Brauer

SOME PLACES YOU NEVER FORGET... For Amanda Stockenberg, that place was Smugglers' Inn. The seaside inn had been a refuge for Amanda when she was sixteen, a place to find solace, to find herself...and to find love. She can't think of the inn now without remembering Dane Cutter. The then nineteen-year-old illegitimate son of the cook had taught her about love. She'd been ready to give up everything to be with him. But at the end of the summer he, it seemed, was not. Now, ten years later, Amanda once again finds herself staying at Smugglers' Inn, this time for a corporate retreat. The event is her last chance to prove herself to her bosses, so she doesn't need any complications...like finding Dane Cutter still working at the inn. And still as dangerous to her equilibrium as ever. Because suddenly, Amanda isn't sure what she wants—the window office or the window room of a seaside inn. She has one week. Seven days to choose between achieving all her dreams...or reuniting with the man she never stopped loving.

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The Economics of Regional Security

NATO, the Mediterranean and Southern Africa

By: Jurgen Brauer,Keith Hartley

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NATO, the Mediterranean and Southern Africa

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Castles, Battles, & Bombs

How Economics Explains Military History

By: Jurgen Brauer,Hubert van Tuyll

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Castles, Battles, & Bombs

How Economics Explains Military History

By: Jurgen Brauer,Hubert van Tuyll

Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army. The authors also reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and provide new insights into France’s decision to develop nuclear weapons. Drawing on these examples and more, Brauer and Van Tuyll suggest lessons for today’s military, from counterterrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq. "In bringing economics into assessments of military history, [the authors] also bring illumination. . . . [The authors] turn their interdisciplinary lens on the mercenary arrangements of Renaissance Italy; the wars of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon; Grant's campaigns in the Civil War; and the strategic bombings of World War II. The results are invariably stimulating."—Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly "This study is serious, creative, important. As an economist I am happy to see economics so professionally applied to illuminate major decisions in the history of warfare."—Thomas C. Schelling, Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics

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0226071650

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Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention

By: Charles H. Anderton,Jurgen Brauer

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Castles, Battles, and Bombs

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The Economics of Regional Security

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The Anabaptists

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The Economics of Conflict and Peace

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Arms Trade and Economic Development

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The Economics of Regional Security

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Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention

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