Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In this lucid and timely new book, Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution. Whether called deterrence or war, armed struggle or terrorism, the history of the conflict reveals that violence has been counterproductive. Drawing on historical evidence from the 1950s to the present, The sword is not enough pushes back against the dominant belief that military force leads to triumph while negotiations and concessions lead to defeat and further unwelcome challenges. Violence weakens the security situation, bolsters adversaries, and, especially in the case of Palestine, has sabotaged political aims. Studiously impartial and accessibly written, this book shows us that diplomacy is the only answer.

Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Political violence --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Conflict resolution. --- Diplomacy. --- Israel. --- Military force. --- Negotiations. --- Palestine. --- Peace. --- US foreign policy. --- War.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In Syria, Ukraine, several African countries, and other conflict hotspots around the globe, private contractors are operating on behalf of, yet are ostensibly separate from, the Russian state. Reliance on these actors allows Russia to expand its military footprint while maintaining plausible deniability of direct involvement in major combat operations and competition short of armed conflict. The United States and its allies may be able to counter these actors and diminish their will to fight through cognitive maneuver, a concept that emphasizes changing minds and behaviors as a path to victory. An adaptation of the RAND-developed military will-to-fight model highlights opportunities to counter Russia's use of private military actors using cognitive maneuver. Accompanying multimethod qualitative analyses found potential vulnerabilities at the individual, team, organizational, state, and societal levels that could be targeted to diminish the motivation to fight among individual contractor personnel, the relationships between Russian private military companies and the Russian government and armed forces, and public opinion on the use of contractors and their treatment.

Private military companies --- Private security services --- Mercenary troops --- Psychological warfare --- Civilian Military Workforce --- Major Combat Operations --- Military Force Deployment --- Russia --- Sociétés militaires privées --- Services privés de sécurité --- Mercenaires --- Guerre psychologique

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Military assistance, American --- Humanitarian assistance, American --- National security --- Civil war. --- Diplomatic relations. --- Humanitarian assistance, American. --- Military assistance, American. --- National security. --- Anṣār Allāh. --- United States. --- Anṣār Allāh. --- Authorization for Use of Military Force (United States) --- 2000-2099 --- Yemen (Republic) --- United States --- Yemen (Republic) --- United States. --- Yemen (Republic) --- History --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is the second book in a unique two-volume study tracing the evolution of the Labour Party's foreign policy throughout the 20th century to the present date.This is the first comprehensive study of the history of the Labour Party's worldview and foreign policy. It argues that Labour's foreign policy perspective should be seen not as the development of a socialist foreign policy, but as an application of the ideas of liberal internationalism.Volume Two provides a critical analysis of Labour's foreign policy since 1951. It examines Labour's attempts to rethink foreign policy, focusing on intr

Socialism --- History --- Labour Party (Great Britain) --- History. --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- Britanskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partīi︠a︡ --- British Labour Party --- Eikoku Rōdōtō --- Labor Party (Great Britain) --- Leĭboristskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Anglii --- Leĭboristskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Velikobritanii --- LPV --- Mifleget ha-laibor (Great Britain) --- Parti travailliste britannique --- Partido Laborista (Great Britain) --- Partido Laborista Británico --- Yŏngguk Nodongdang --- 工黨 (英國) --- Labour Representation Committee (Great Britain : 1900-1906) --- Labour Party. --- Suez crisis. --- Vietnam War. --- foreign policy. --- liberal internationalism. --- military force. --- nuclear disarmament. --- radicalisation. --- rearmament. --- war on terror.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two major wars had been on the scene long before that eventful morning. In Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know, Daniel L. Byman, an eminent scholar of Middle East terrorism and international security who served on the 9/11 Commission, provides a sharp and concise overview of Al Qaeda, from its humble origins in the mountains of Afghanistan to the present, explaining its perseverance and adaptation since 9/11 and the limits of U.S. and allied counterterrorism efforts. The organization that would come to be known as Al Qaeda traces its roots to the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Founded as the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, Al Qaeda achieved a degree of international notoriety with a series of spectacular attacks in the 1990s; however, it was the dramatic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11 that truly launched Al Qaeda onto the global stage. The attacks endowed the organization with world-historical importance and provoked an overwhelming counterattack by the United States and other western countries. Within a year of 9/11, the core of Al Qaeda had been chased out of Afghanistan and into a variety of refuges across the Muslim world. Splinter groups and franchised offshoots were active in the 2000s in countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, but by early 2011, after more than a decade of relentless counterterrorism efforts by the United States and other Western military and intelligence services, most felt that Al Qaeda's moment had passed. With the death of Osama bin Laden in May of that year, many predicted that Al Qaeda was in its death throes. Shockingly, Al Qaeda has staged a remarkable comeback in the last few years. In almost every conflict in the Muslim world, from portions of the Xanjing region in northwest China to the African subcontinent, Al Qaeda franchises or like-minded groups have played a role. Al Qaeda's extreme Salafist ideology continues to appeal to radicalized Sunni Muslims throughout the world, and it has successfully altered its organizational structure so that it can both weather America's enduring full-spectrum assault and tailor its message to specific audiences

Polemology --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Terrorism --- Violence --- Intégrisme islamique --- Terrorisme --- Qaida (Organization) --- IS (Organization) --- ViolenceQaida (Organization) --- Intégrisme islamique --- Terrorism - Middle East --- Islamic fundamentalism - Middle East --- Violence - Middle East --- the anti-Soviet jihad --- the jihadist movement --- the United States --- Bin Laden --- Al Qaeda --- Sudan --- Egypt --- the Taliban --- 9-11 --- attacks and plots --- the 1998 embassy attacks --- the 9-11 attacks --- strategy and tactics --- suicide bombing --- lone wolves --- Al Qaeda training camp --- nuclear weapons --- salafi-jihadism --- Salafism --- Wahhabism --- Deobandism --- Ahl-e Hadith --- the Muslim Brotherhood --- killing civilians --- propaganda --- organization and recruitment --- Ayman al-Zawahiri --- the role of war --- the role of the internet --- money --- the 2003 Iraq war --- Iran and the Shi'a --- Saudi Arabia --- Pakistan --- Israel --- the Arab Spring --- Al Qaeda affiliates --- the Arabian Peninsula --- the Islamic Maghreb --- Al Shabaab --- Jabhat al-Nusra --- the Islamic State --- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi --- the Syrian government --- the Khorasan Group --- counterterrorism --- diplomacy --- the legal system --- military tribunals --- Guantanamo --- post 9-11 legal measures --- rendition --- US military force --- drones --- air strikes --- collecting intelligence --- allied governments --- radicalization --- Europe --- Islamitische Staat