William J Taylor Jr's Books

American National Security

By: Amos A. Jordan,William J. Taylor, Jr.,Michael J. Meese,Suzanne C. Nielsen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

American National Security

By: Amos A. Jordan,William J. Taylor, Jr.,Michael J. Meese,Suzanne C. Nielsen

The sixth edition of American National Security has been extensively rewritten to take into account the significant changes in national security policy in the past decade. Thorough revisions reflect a new strategic context and the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the early twenty-first century. Highlights include: • An examination of the current international environment and new factors affecting U.S. national security policy making• A discussion of the Department of Homeland Security and changes in the intelligence community• A survey of intelligence and national security, with special focus on security needs post-9/11• A review of economic security, diplomacy, terrorism, conventional warfare, counterinsurgency, military intervention, and nuclear deterrence in the changed international setting• An update of security issues in East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean• New material on globalization, transnational actors, and human security Previous editions have been widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses. -- James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, from the foreword

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

682

Publisher

JHU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

080189154X

ISBN 13

9780801891540

The Nuclear Freeze Debate

Arms Control Issues For The 1980s

By: Paul M Cole,William J Taylor Jr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Nuclear Freeze Debate

Arms Control Issues For The 1980s

By: Paul M Cole,William J Taylor Jr

From a local ballot initiative in Massachusetts, the nuclear weapons freeze movement has grown during the last three years into an important national issue. By 1983, Congress had been asked to consider more than two dozen freeze resolutions, and more than 25% of the voters in the U.S. had the opportunity to vote on state-wide and regional freeze initiatives. This book explores the issues behind the current debate over nuclear weapons and the freeze movement from a wide range of perspectives. The contributors assess the goals and implications of the freeze movement, examine its origins in religious and secular pacifism, explain the amendments to the original freeze proposal introduced in Congress, and discuss the reaction and policies of the Reagan administration. The nuclear freeze movement is placed in an international context with discussions of recent arms negotiations, European views of U.S. policies, and the possible effects of a freeze on NATO allies and on U.S. national security. The book includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

205

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000304043

ISBN 13

9781000304046

Pandemics and Peace

Public Health Cooperation in Zones of Conflict

By: William J. Long

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pandemics and Peace

Public Health Cooperation in Zones of Conflict

By: William J. Long

Presented are case studies of recent pandemic threats in our globalized world and how interests, institutions, and ideas can align to allow for interstate cooperations even in unfavorable environments. The author has a working proposition on what makes new forms of public-private governance effective and he creates analytical frameworks for practitioners grappling with transnational problems. Engaged here are core debates in the international relations theories of cooperation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

US Institute of Peace Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1601270801

ISBN 13

9781601270801

A US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific

By: Douglas T. Stuart,William T. Tow

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific

By: Douglas T. Stuart,William T. Tow

First Published in 2005. This is Adelphi Paper 299 and discusses a strategy for the Unites States of America for the continued stability of the Asia-Pacific region. Looking at ways in which the US-dominated system of Asia-Pacific security that evolved during the Cold War must be fundamentally transformed to determine its security in the future.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136042881

ISBN 13

9781136042881

The Rush to Policy

Using Analytic Techniques in Public Sector Decision Making

By: Peter William House,Roger Roger Don Shull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rush to Policy

Using Analytic Techniques in Public Sector Decision Making

By: Peter William House,Roger Roger Don Shull

Rush to Policy explores the appropriate role of technical analysis in policy formulation. The authors ask when and how the use of sophisticated analytic techniques in decision-making benefits the nation. They argues that these techniques are too often used in situations where they may not be needed or understood by the decision maker, where they may not be to answer the questions raised but are nonetheless required by law. House and Shull provide an excellent empirical base for describing the impact of politics on policies, policy analysis, and policy analysts. They examine cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, and decision analysis and assess their ability to substitute for the current decision-making process in the public sector. They examine the political basis of public sector decision-making, how individuals and organizations make decisions, and the ways decisions are made in the federal sector. Also, they discuss the mandate to use these methods in the policy formulation process. The book is written by two practicing federal policy analysts who, in a decade of service as policy researchers, developed sophisticated quantitative analytic and decision-making techniques. They then spent several years trying to use them in the real world. Success and failures are described in illuminating detail, providing insight not commonly found in such critiques. The authors delineate the interaction of politics and technical issues. Their book describes policy analysis as it is, not how it ought to be. Peter W. House is the director of policy research and analysis at the National Science Foundation. He is the author of ten books on multidisciplinary science and technology policy research and analyses in government, private, and university sectors, including The Art of Public Policy Analysis and with Roger D. Shull, Regulatory Reform: Politics and the Environment and Regulations and Science: Management of Research on Demand. Roger D. Shull is a senior analyst at the Division of Policy Research and Analysis, National Science Foundation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

452

Publisher

Transaction Publishers

ISBN 10

1412831059

ISBN 13

9781412831055

The Korean Peninsula

Prospects For Arms Reduction Under Global Detente

By: Young Koo Cha,John Q Blodgett,Cha Young-Koo,William J Taylor Jr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Korean Peninsula

Prospects For Arms Reduction Under Global Detente

By: Young Koo Cha,John Q Blodgett,Cha Young-Koo,William J Taylor Jr

This book addresses the issue that is whether the new Eas and West atmosphere of detente and arms reduction can smother the sparks of conflict on the Korean peninsula and perhaps illuminate the path to a Korea reunified as a democratic state.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

230

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000302822

ISBN 13

9781000302820

Asian Security to the Year 2000

By: William Jesse Taylor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Asian Security to the Year 2000

By: William Jesse Taylor

In January 1996, the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a conference on "Asian Security to the Year 2000." No region of the world has greater potential for expanded influence on American interests. This compendium of papers from the conference examines the security policies being pursued by many of the key Asian actors--China, the Koreas, Pakistan, and the nations of Southeast Asia, particularly those in ASEAN. The contributors to this volume paint the picture of a dynamic and diverse Asia on the verge of the new century. Each author identifies the critical issues which frame both challenges and opportunities for U.S. foreign, economic, and security pol

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

137

Publisher

DIANE Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1428913688

ISBN 13

9781428913684

The Future Of South Korean-U.S. Security Relations

By: Young-koo Cha,John Q Blodgett,Michael Mazarr,William J Taylor Jr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Future Of South Korean-U.S. Security Relations

By: Young-koo Cha,John Q Blodgett,Michael Mazarr,William J Taylor Jr

This volume examines key issues in Republic of Korea-United States (ROK-U.S.) burden-sharing, with attention to the unique nature of the arrangement. It analyzes the security balance in Northeast Asia and future trends within the ROK-U.S. alliance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

189

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000301672

ISBN 13

9781000301670

Managing National Security Policy

The President and the Process

By: William W. Newmann

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Managing National Security Policy

The President and the Process

By: William W. Newmann

The U.S. national security decision-making system is a product of the Cold War. Formed in 1947 with the National Security Council, it developed around the demands of competing with and containing the USSR. But the world after the collapse of communism and, particularly, the tragedy of September 11, is vastly different. A threatening but familiar enemy has given way to a complex environment of more diverse and less predictable threats. As the creation of the Homeland Security Council and Office of Homeland Security indicate, the United States must now reevaluate standard national security processes for this more uncertain world.In this timely book, William W. Newmann examines the way presidents manage their advisory process for national security decision making and the way that process evolves over the course of an administration's term. Three detailed case studies show how the president and his senior advisors managed arms control and nuclear strategy during the first terms of the Carter, Reagan, and G. H. W. Bush presidencies. These studies, enhanced by interviews with key members of the national security teams, including James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, reveal significant patterns of structure and adaptation. They provide a window to how decision making in the modern White House really works, at a moment when national security decisions are again at the top of the agenda.Specifically, Newmann investigates this pattern. Each president begins his administration with a standard National Security Councilÿbased interagency process, which he then streamlines toward a reliance on senior officials working in small groups, and a confidence structure of a few key advisors. Newmann examines the institutional pressures that push administrations in this direction, as he also weighs the impact of the leadership styles of the presidents themselves. In so doing, he reaches the conclusion that decision making can be an audition process through which presidents discover which advisors they trust. And the most successful process is one that balances formal, informal, and confidence sources to maintain full discussion of diverse opinions, while settling those debates informally at the senior-most levels.Unlike previous studies, Managing National Security Policy views decision making as dynamic, rather than as a static system inaugurated at the beginning of a president's term. The key to understanding the decision-making process rests upon the study of the evolving relationships between the president and his senior advisors. Awareness of this evolution paints a complex portrait of policy making, which may help future presidents design national security decision structures that fit the realities of the office in today's world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

300

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822970767

ISBN 13

9780822970767

A Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

By: William Watts Hart Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

By: William Watts Hart Davis

Reprint of v. 3 of the 1905 ed. published by Lewis Pub. Co., New York under title: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

974

Publisher

Genealogical Publishing Com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806306416

ISBN 13

9780806306414

Book's by William J Taylor Jr

American National Security

American National Security

The Nuclear Freeze Debate

The Nuclear Freeze Debate

Pandemics and Peace

Pandemics and Peace

A US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific

A US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific

The Rush to Policy

The Rush to Policy

The Korean Peninsula

The Korean Peninsula

Asian Security to the Year 2000

Asian Security to the Year 2000

The Future Of South Korean-U.S. Security Relations

The Future Of South Korean-U.S. Security Relations

Managing National Security Policy

Managing National Security Policy

A Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

A Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email