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Author : Tanisha M. Fazal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781501719790
"This book assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for both interstate and civil wars over the past two centuries"--
Author : Arthur Ocean Waskow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN : UIUC:30112060721880
Author : Kenneth J. Hagan,Ian J. Bickerton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861895127
“The United States does not do nation building,” claimed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld three years ago. Yet what are we to make of the American military bases in Korea? Why do American warships patrol the Somali coastline? And perhaps most significantly, why are fourteen “enduring bases” being built in Iraq? In every major foreign war fought by United States in the last century, the repercussions of the American presence have been felt long after the last Marine has left. Kenneth J. Hagan and Ian J. Bickerton argue here that, despite adamant protests from the military and government alike, nation building and occupation are indeed hallmarks—and unintended consequences—of American warmaking. In this timely, groundbreaking study, the authors examine ten major wars fought by the United States, from the Revolutionary War to the ongoing Iraq War, and analyze the conflicts’ unintended consequences. These unexpected outcomes, Unintended Consequences persuasively demonstrates, stemmed from ill-informed decisions made at critical junctures and the surprisingly similar crises that emerged at the end of formal fighting. As a result, war did not end with treaties or withdrawn troops. Instead, time after time, the United States became inextricably involved in the issues of the defeated country, committing itself to the chaotic aftermath that often completely subverted the intended purposes of war. Stunningly, Unintended Consequences contends that the vast majority of wars launched by the United States were unnecessary, avoidable, and catastrophically unpredictable. In a stark challenge to accepted scholarship, the authors show that the wars’ unintended consequences far outweighed the initial calculated goals, and thus forced cataclysmic shifts in American domestic and foreign policy. A must-read for anyone concerned with the past, present, or future of American defense, Unintended Consequences offers a provocative perspective on the current predicament in Iraq and the conflicts sure to loom ahead of us.
Author : B. Dexter Hoyos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 3110155648
Attempts to reconstruct the reasons why the Romans and the Carthaginians engaged in long and damaging wars with each other despite prosperous periods of alliance. Relying on ancient sources such as the accounts of Polybius, Livy, and Diodorous, the author discusses the period from the antecedents to the First Punic War of 264 B.C.E. to the war-declaration of 218 B.C.E. Arguing that the reasons for the two wars were intertwined, he contends that the outcomes of the wars differ markedly from the original aims of the great powers. Neither side, according to the author, sought war with the other, but war resulted from misunderstandings and miscalculations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Peter W. Galbraith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416562306
Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the "smartest and most devastating" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality now commonly accepted. The Iraq war was intended to make the United States more secure, bring democracy to the Middle East, intimidate Iran and Syria, help win the war on terror, consolidate American world leadership, and entrench the Republican Party for decades. Instead, Bush handed Iran its greatest strategic triumph in four centuries U.S. troops now fight to support an Iraqi government led by religious parties intent on creating an Iranian-style Islamic republic As part of the surge, the United States created a Sunni militia led by the same Baathists the U.S. invaded Iraq to overthrow administration gave Iran and North Korea a free pass to advance their nuclear programs Obsessed with Iraq's nonexistent WMD, the Bush administration gave Iran and North Korea a free pass to advance their nuclear programs Turkey, a key NANATO ally long considered a model pro-Western Muslim democracy, became one of the most anti-American countries in the world U.S. prestige around the world reached an all-time low Iraq: Galbraith challenges the assertion that the surge will lead to victory. By creating a Sunni army, the surge has, in fact, contributed to Iraq's breakup and set the stage for an intensified civil war between Sunnis and Shiites. If the United States wishes to escape the Iraq quagmire, it must face up to the reality that the country has broken up and cannot be put back together. Iran: Having helped Iran's allies take control in Baghdad, the Bush administration no longer has a viable military option to stop Iran's nuclear program. Galbraith discusses how a president more pragmatic than Bush might get Iran to freeze its nuclear program as part of a package deal to upgrade relations between two countries equally threatened by Sunni extremism. Turkey, Syria, and Israel: A war intended to make Israel more secure, undermine Syria's Assad regime, and strengthen ties with Turkey has had the opposite result. Nationalism: In the coming decades, other countries may follow Iraq's example in fragmenting along ethnic and religious lines. Galbraith draws on his considerable experience in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia to predict where and what the United States might do about it. The United States: George W. Bush substituted wishful thinking for strategy and as a result made America weaker. Galbraith provides some rules for a national strategy that will appeal equally to conservatives and liberals -- indeed, to anyone who believes the United States needs an effective national security strategy.
Author : Benjamin Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472088726
A multilevel theory of international relations that accounts for intended and unintended outcomes of cooperation and conflict
Author : Kenneth J. Hagan,Ian J. Bickerton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1861893108
In this timely, groundbreaking study, the authors examine ten major wars fought by the United States, from the Revolutionary War to the ongoing Iraq War, and analyze the conflicts’ unintended consequences.
Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 0415928869
Computers are at the heart of war today, but even the best missile defense system envisioned by the military would have been useless against box-cutters on September 11. Creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook and author of Cyborg Citizen, hailed by Wired magazine as "a ripping good yarn," Chris Hables Gray argues that rapid technological development is the order of the day, and our future will be determined by who uses it and for what-terror or peace. A visionary and disarming overview of cyberwar in the twenty-first century, Peace, War, and Computers looks beyond the gadgets of techno-warfare and the early predictions of a purely "cyberspace" war to reveal how electronic culture has changed the way we wage war and strive for peace. Unmanned aircraft-soon to be followed by remote-control naval fleets-may appear to make warfare more sterile, less bloody. But as the fighting in Iraq has shown, superior technology does not guarantee quick or bloodless victories. Essential reading for anyone interested in computers, politics, and the cutting edge of military strategy and theory, Peace, War, and Computers unlocks the power and pitfalls of computers for war-and peace-in a world where total war is as unthinkable as apocalyptic war is possible. Book jacket.
Author : Florentino P. Feliciano,Myres S. McDougal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004639294
Author : John Bedford Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Nuclear warfare
ISBN : OSU:32435004524914
Author : Arie Marcelo Kacowicz,Exequiel Lacovsky,Keren Sasson,Daniel F. Wajner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009007740
Scholars of international relations generally consider that under conditions of violent conflict and war, smuggling and trans-border crime are likely to thrive. In contrast, this book argues that in fact it is globalisation and peaceful borders that have enabled transnational illicit flows conducted by violent non-state actors, including transnational criminal organizations, drug trafficking organizations, and terrorist cells, who exploit the looseness and demilitarization of borderlands. Empirically, the book draws on case studies from the Americas, compared with other regions of the world experiencing similar phenomena, including the European Union and Southeast Europe (the Western Balkans), Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. To explain the phenomenon in itself, the authors examine the type of peaceful borders and regimes involved in each case; how strong each country is in the governance of their borderlands; their political willingness to control their peaceful borders; and the prevailing socio-economic conditions across the borderlands.
Author : Barry R. Posen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801468377
In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures, he believes, may help some future decision maker avoid catastrophe.Building a formidable argument that moves with cumulative force, he details the way in which escalation could occur not by mindless accident, or by deliberate preference for nuclear escalation, but rather as a natural accompaniment of land, naval, or air warfare at the conventional level. Posen bases his analysis on an empirical study of the east-west military competition in Europe during the 1980s, using a conceptual framework drawn from international relations theory, organization theory, and strategic theory.The lessons of his book, however, go well beyond the east-west competition. Since his observations are relevant to all military competitions between states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, his book speaks to some of the problems that attend the proliferation of nuclear weapons in longstanding regional conflicts. Optimism that small and medium nuclear powers can easily achieve "stable" nuclear balances is, he believes, unwarranted.
Author : Morton H. Halperin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UCAL:$C195502
I. Introduction -- II. Potential triggers of inadvertent general war -- III. The role of arms control in reducing the likelihood and danger of "triggering" events -- IV. Reducing the pressure to pre-empt.
Author : Anthony J. Sciolino
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938908620
In this study, author Anthony J. Sciolino, himself a Catholic, cuts into the heart of why the Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole failed to stop the Holocaust. He demonstrates that Nazism's racial anti-Semitism was rooted in Christian anti-Judaism. While tens of thousands of Christians risked their lives to save Jews, many more including some members of the hierarchy aided Hitler's campaign with their silence or their participation. Sciolino's research and interpretation provide an analysis of Christian doctrine and church history to help answer the question of what went wrong. He suggests that Christian tradition and teaching systematically excluded Jews from the circle of Christian concern and thus led to the tragedy of the Holocaust. From the origins of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism and the controversial position of Pope Pius XII to the Catholic Church's current endeavors to hold itself accountable for their role, The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences offers an examination of one of history's most disturbing issues.
Author : James Kellenberger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319950105
This book is about religion, pacifism, and the nonviolence that informs pacifism in its most coherent form. Pacifism is one religious approach to war and violence. Another is embodied in just war theories, and both pacifism and just war thinking are critically examined. Although moral support for pacifism is presented, a main focus of the book is on religious support for pacifism, found in various religious traditions. A crucial distinction for pacifism is that between force and violence. Pacifism informed by nonviolence excludes violence, but, the book argues, allows forms of force. Peacekeeping is an activity that on the face of it seems compatible with pacifism, and several different forms of peacekeeping are examined. The implications of nonviolence for the treatment of nonhuman animals are also examined. Two models for attaining the conditions required for a world without war have been proposed. Both are treated and one, the model of a biological human family, is developed. The book concludes with reflections on the role of pacifism in each of five possible futurescapes.