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Bangladesh : conditions, issues and U.S. relations
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ISBN: 163117004X Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, [New York] : Novinka,

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New security and justice sector partnership models : implications of the Arab uprisings
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ISBN: 0833089854 9780833089854 0833085751 9780833085757 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation

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The United States faces a unique set of challenges and opportunities in strengthening security and justice sector partnerships in the Middle East and North Africa. Against the backdrop of the Arab uprisings, the U.S. government has issued policy guidance relating to foreign assistance more broadly and security sector assistance in particular. RAND researchers analyzed potential new partnership models that could help implement this guidance, simultaneously strengthening security and justice sector cooperation and promoting reform across the Arab world and beyond. They devised the Enhanced Partnership Planning Model, which focuses on improving collaborative planning, rather than on using assistance as leverage to require partner nations to do what the United States wants. The model serves as a flexible framework that could support tailored, rigorous SJS planning by U.S. and partner nation stakeholders. This framework can support both policy-makers and program managers as they seek to implement new policy guidelines that integrate elements of accountability and reform while continuing to advance core U.S. interests and equities in a rapidly evolving regional context.


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Making and Marketing Arms : The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System
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ISBN: 0691077347 1306987296 0691606609 0691635315 1400858771 9781306987295 9781400858774 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests--national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur--that explain the nation's successes in arms production and transfers.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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The American military mission to China, 1941-1942 : lend-lease logistics, politics and the tangles of wartime cooperation
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ISBN: 1476612900 Year: 2014 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,

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"Here is an overview of America's first effort in military aid to a foreign sovereign nation at a time when Europe was engaged in open warfare and Asia was undergoing a series of military confrontations"--


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Evaluating the impact of the Department of Defense Regional Centers for Security Studies
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ISBN: 0833086499 9780833086495 9780833085139 0833085131 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand

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The five U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Regional Centers for Security Studies have been helping partner nations build strategic capacity for almost 20 years. However, recent DoD budget constraints have put pressure on the regional centers (RCs) to increase efficiency. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) asked RAND to conduct a study on the overall impact of the RCs, their effectiveness in advancing DoD policy priorities, the ways in which they assess their programs, and ways in which they could improve their impact and efficiency and the resulting outcomes. The RAND study team found that centers have had great success at the missions they have undertaken. They are high-impact components of U.S. security cooperation and engagement efforts, despite their relatively small budgets. The team identified 24 ways in which the centers advance U.S. interests, including building partner capacity, building relationships, fostering pro-U.S. outlooks, offering unique opportunities for engagement, and promoting regional dialogue that reduces tensions. However, RCs should improve impact-oriented data collection and analysis for improved assessment, methodically collecting such data over time. OSD and the combatant commands should improve their oversight and management of the RCs to ensure alignment with department- and theater-level objectives. In addition, OSD should maintain the RCs' focus on regional security challenges rather than refashioning them to address specific threats. Options to consider for greater impact include evaluating the balance between core residential courses and in-region workshops and determining whether and to what extent the centers should develop customized programs for DoD components so as to secure funds beyond the core budget they receive from OSD.


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Warrior Diplomat : A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
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ISBN: 1612346324 9781612346328 Year: 2014 Publisher: [United States} : Baltimore, Md. : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have dealt with these issues in the White House situation room and on the front line. Michael G. Waltz has done just that, working as a policy advisor to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and also serving in the mountains of Afghanistan as a Green Beret, directly implementing strategy in the field that he helped devise in Washington. In Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan Waltz shares his unique firsthand experiences, revealing the sights, sounds, emotions, and complexities involved in the war in Afghanistan. Waltz also highlights the policy issues that have plagued the war effort throughout the past decade, from the drug trade, to civilian casualties, to a lack of resources in comparison to Iraq, to the overall coalition strategy. At the same time, he points out that stabilizing Afghanistan and the region remains crucial to national security and that a long-term commitment along the lines of South Korea or Germany is imperative if America is to remain secure.


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Deception in high places : a history of bribery in Britain's arms trade
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ISBN: 9780745334271 074533427X 9780745334264 0745334261 1783711299 9781783711291 9781783711307 1783711302 9781783711314 1783711310 Year: 2014 Publisher: London, [England] : Pluto Press,

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Reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years.


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A Gentle Occupation : Dutch Military Operations in Iraq, 2003-2005
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ISBN: 9087282915 9400602030 9087282222 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Leiden University Press

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A Gentle Occupation analyses Dutch military operations in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion in Iraq. It raises the question why, in contrast to most allied troops elsewhere in Iraq, Dutch forces in Al Muthanna province met with little resistance and left Iraq self-confident of their ability to deal with this type of stabilisation operations


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Brothers in arms
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ISBN: 0801470730 9780801470738 1501731238 9780801452659 0801452651 1322523118 9781501731235 Year: 2014 Publisher: Ithaca, New York

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When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot's government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in a markedly asymmetrical relationship between a modernizing, nuclear power and a virtually premodern state, China was largely unable to use its power to influence Cambodian politics or policy. In Brothers in Arms, Andrew Mertha traces this surprising lack of influence to variations between the Chinese and Cambodian institutions that administered military aid, technology transfer, and international trade. Today, China's extensive engagement with the developing world suggests an inexorably rising China in the process of securing a degree of economic and political dominance that was unthinkable even a decade ago. Yet, China's experience with its first-ever client state suggests that the effectiveness of Chinese foreign aid, and influence that comes with it, is only as good as the institutions that manage the relationship. By focusing on the links between China and Democratic Kampuchea, Mertha peers into the "black box" of Chinese foreign aid to illustrate how domestic institutional fragmentation limits Beijing's ability to influence the countries that accept its assistance.

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Technical assistance, Chinese --- Military assistance, Chinese --- Chinese military assistance --- Chinese technical assistance --- Cambodia --- China --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- Cambodge --- Khmer Republic --- Cam Bot --- Cambotja --- République khmère --- Kambodscha --- Kamboja --- Kambodža --- Tchin-la --- Chien-pʻu-chai --- Democratic Kampuchea --- Kambujā --- Democratic Cambodia --- Camboja --- Preah Reach Ana Chak Kampuchea --- Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭpâteyy --- Kampuchea démocratique --- République du Cambodge --- Campuchia --- Kampuchea (Coalition Government, 1983- ) --- Kampuchea --- Kampuchii︠a︡ --- Kamphūchā --- Kingdom of Cambodia --- Preăhréachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa --- Cambogia --- Roat Kampuchea --- State of Cambodia --- Cambodja --- Royal Government of Cambodia --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- French Indochina --- E-books --- S09/0412 --- S31/0120 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and South-East Asia (incl. Vietnamese war) --- Indo China and South East Asia--Cambodia, Angkorvat --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Braḥrājāṇacakr Kambujā --- Rājraṭṭhabhipāl Kambujā


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The Global Politics of Arms Sales.
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ISBN: 140085427X 0691614733 0691022070 0691076359 9781400854271 9780691076355 9780691022079 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Marshaling a great deal of new information in a highly readable manner, the author explains the reasons for the dramatic expansion of arms sales during the past decade and clearly traces such trends as the rise in sophistication of weapons being sold so as to include the most advanced technologies, and the shift in sales to unstable parts of the Third World.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Arms transfers -- Political aspects. --- Firearms industry and trade -- Political aspects. --- Military readiness -- Political aspects. --- World politics. --- -Firearms industry and trade --- -Military readiness --- 623.003 --- 623.4 --- 658.8:623 --- Armaments --- Defense readiness --- Defenses, National --- Military preparedness --- National defenses --- Preparedness (Military science) --- Readiness (Military science) --- Manpower --- Weapons industry --- Arms sales --- Arms traffic --- Foreign military sales --- Military sales --- Munitions --- Sale of military equipment --- Military assistance --- Firearms industry and trade --- 841.4 Politieke figuren --- 871 Conventionele wapens --- 873 Wapenbeheersing --- Foreign trade policy --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Arms transfers --- Military policy --- World politics --- Political aspects --- E-books --- -World politics --- Military readiness --- Political aspects. --- #SBIB:327.5H22 --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Defense policy --- Ontwapeningsproblemen - bewapening --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Military history --- Sociology, Military --- War --- National security --- International trade --- Arms race --- Defense industries --- 825 Ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- 841 Politiek Bestel --- 874 Wapenhandel --- 876 Veiligheidspolitiek --- 882.4 Noord-Amerika --- 883.2 Oost-Azië --- 884.1 Oost-Europa --- 884.2 Noord-Europa --- 884.4 West-Europa --- Arms transfers - - Political aspects --- Firearms industry and trade - - Political aspects --- Military readiness - - Political aspects

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