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The European security and defence architecture : challenges and Austrian security policy priorities
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ISBN: 9783903121546 3903121541 Year: 2019 Publisher: Vienna: Republic of Austria/Federal Ministry of Defence,

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"Space Force" and related DOD proposals: issues for Congress
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Year: 2019 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service,

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Strategic continuation, a tactical change : Russia's European security policy
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ISBN: 8365827417 Year: 2019 Publisher: Warszawa [Poland] : Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia,

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1989 marked the beginning of a short but intense period of thorough geopolitical changes in the eastern part of Europe. The simultaneous weakening and liberalisation of the communist regime in the USSR led by Mikhail Gorbachev, the gradual limitation of Moscow's economic and political support but also its shrinking control over the countries in the Soviet bloc and domestic political crises inside these countries led to a rapid downfall of the communist governments in Central-Eastern Europe. The military, economic and political structures of the Soviet bloc were dissolved within a timeframe of just two years, and the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist in December 1991, to be replaced with fifteen new independent states. The Russian Federation became the main successor to the USSR as it, albeit seriously weakened, inherited a large section of the Soviet empire's resources and had to redefine its interests in the new post-Cold War European and global order that was being formed.

Evaluating DOD strategy: key findings of the National Defense Strategy Commission
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Year: 2019 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service,

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Proxy war
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ISBN: 9781503608184 9781503608733 1503608735 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stanford, California

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This text provides a more comprehensive, definitive, and rigorous treatment of proxy war. It argues that proxy war can and should remain a useful and effective tool of foreign policy, but that such an endeavor demands better understanding and deliberation.


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Disarmament, peace and development
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ISBN: 1787439933 1787438546 1787438554 1787544427 9781787438545 9781787438552 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bingley, UK

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Excessive military spendingreduces the available financial reserves for health,education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases poverty, unemployment, and destitution.It also strengthens dictatorial tendencies in politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to achieve peace, eliminate poverty, decrease inequality, and achieve social justice, we should devote all our energies to reducing military spending and using the released resources for economic development. For that, we need a concerted effort to encourage disarmament. This newvolume provides reflections and insights from leading public figures and activists who oppose military expenditure in any form. Many of the contributions to this volume were presented as speeches at the 'Disarm! For a Climate of Peace' meeting held in Berlin in 2016, organized by the International Peace Bureau. The volume also includes additional research-oriented chapters to complement the transcripts from the International Peace Bureau meeting.


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Whose life is worth more?
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ISBN: 1503610349 9781503610347 9781503606821 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stanford, California

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Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against those of civilians on both sides. The first of its kind, Whose Life Is Worth More? reveals that how these decisions are made is much more nuanced than conventional wisdom suggests. When these states are entangled in prolonged conflicts, hierarchies emerge and evolve to weigh the value of human life.Yagil Levy delves into a wealth of contemporary conflicts, including the drone war in Pakistan, the Kosovo war, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the US and UK wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cultural narratives about the nature and necessity of war, public rhetoric about external threats facing the nation, antiwar movements, and democratic values all contribute to the perceived validity of civilian and soldier deaths. By looking beyond the military to the cultural and political factors that shape policies, this book provides tools to understand how democracies really decide whose life is worth more.


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The political economy of classical Athens : a naval perspective
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ISBN: 9789004386143 9004386149 9004386157 9789004386150 Year: 2019 Volume: 425 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece. In the face of increasingly compelling arguments for the existence of a market economy in classical Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, Barry O’Halloran seeks to contribute to this renewed debate by re-interrogating the ancient evidence using more recent economic interpretative frameworks. The aim is to re-evaluate accepted orthodoxies and present the economic history of this emblematic city-state in a new light. More specifically, it analyses the economic foundations of Athens through the prism of its navy. Its macroeconomic approach utilises an employment-demand model through which enormous naval defence expenditures created an exceptional period of demand-led economic growth.


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Trends in Russia's armed forces : an overview of budgets and capabilities
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ISBN: 1977405053 9781977401953 1977401953 9781977405050 Year: 2019 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation

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The authors provide an overview of the current state of the Russian military in terms of funding and capabilities across the bulk of its forces. They describe how Russian defense budgets have increased over the course of the past 15 years, even as Russian defense spending has now entered a period of decline. They also portray a Russian military in transition, on a path to adapt its general-purpose forces to provide options more suitable to Russia's needs and intentions. They conclude that, based on the location of Russian forces and the systems that the Russian government and military have emphasized for modernization, the Russian government and military have successfully strengthened Russia's military capabilities for a distinct set of future conflict scenarios. It is important to pay close attention to Russia's modernization of its advanced air defenses and ground forces, especially its long-range fires systems — a process that has improved both its offensive and defensive capabilities. The Russian military has also improved its overall readiness level, which has resulted in an ability to quickly generate significant ground forces and to rapidly project antiair and antisea capabilities around its borders. This gives the country substantial offensive potential against bordering states, especially other former Soviet republics.


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The Air Force journal of European, Middle Eastern, and African affairs.
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ISSN: 2639636X Year: 2019 Publisher: Maxwell AFB, AL : AUP,

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