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Putin's preventive counter-revolution : post-Soviet authoritarianism and the spectre of Velvet Revolution
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ISBN: 9780415694216 Year: 2012 Volume: 82 Publisher: New York : Routledge,


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The world America made
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ISBN: 9780307961310 0307961311 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Knopf

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What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home ? And is America really in decline ? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country's most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to let its influence wane.Although Kagan asserts that much of the current pessimism is misplaced, he warns that if America were indeed to commit preemptive superpower suicide, the world would see the return of war among rising nations as they jostle for power; the retreat of democracy around the world as Vladimir Putin's Russia and authoritarian China acquire more clout; and the weakening of the global free-market economy, which the United States created and has supported for more than sixty years. We've seen this before :in the breakdown of the Roman Empire and the collapse of the European order in World War I.Potent, incisive, and engaging, The World America Made is a reminder that the American world order is worth preserving, and America dare not decline.Bron : http://www.amazon.com


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The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
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ISBN: 9781400069835 1400069831 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Random House

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In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe's pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland.Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan's porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India's main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage.A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms.Bron : http://www.randomhouse.com


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IHS Jane's Weapons : Air-Launched : 2012-2013
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ISBN: 9780710630186 Year: 2012 Publisher: Coulsdon, UK : IHS Global Limited,

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War, Will, and Warlords : Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2011
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ISBN: 9781780397801 Year: 2012 Publisher: [s.l.] : [s.n.],


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Under the drones : modern lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands
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ISBN: 9780674065611 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,


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Eurasia's ascent in energy and geopolitics : rivalry or partnership for China, Russia and Central Asia?
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ISBN: 9780415681506 9780203117880 0415681502 1138851965 9786613714572 1136306412 0203117883 1280873264 1136306404 9781136306365 9781136306402 9781136306419 9781138851962 Year: 2012 Volume: 35 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment of Maoism. This volume brings together scholars to address the current status of Sino-Russian relations in the political, military, energy and trade sectors. In this comprehensive new volume, authors offer a detailed account on the both the historical context and current status of relations between Russia and China and the geo-political realignments in Eurasia. This analysis of the evolving relationship addresses global strategy, energy politics, national security, human security, and Central Asian links. Individual chapters examine key issues such as China's economic ascendancy, military relations, the geostrategic position of Mongolia, Japan's views and historical background. With authors representing a broad range of current active experts and researchers working in Europe, the US, Central Asia, China and Japan, this book offers a long-term and in-depth analysis of the relations and potential developments in both bilateral and international relations. This work will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, Asian security, and the Eurasian region.

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Twenty-first century seapower
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ISBN: 9780415698122 9780203119778 9781136316913 9781136316951 9781138790131 Year: 2012 Publisher: London ;New York Routledge

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US Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq : Lessons and Legacies
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ISBN: 9781588268099 Year: 2012 Publisher: Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner,

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