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  • Armies of Sand
    Kenneth M. Pollack
    Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers, scholars, and military experts have offered various explanations for this pattern. Reliance on Soviet military methods, t...
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  • Arab Awakening
    Akram Al-Turk / Daniel L. Byman / Kenneth M. Pollack
    'Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might the future look like, and what are the likely ramifications for the United St...
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  • Unfinished Business
    J. Scott Carpenter / Kenneth M. Pollack / Raad Alkadiri
    'Iraq still hangs in the balance. The dramatic improvements in Iraqi security between 2007 and 2009 have produced important, but incomplete changes in the nation's politics. These changes make it possible to imagine Iraq slowly muddling upward, building gradually toward a better future. But we must be constantly on guard against the considerable potential for Iraq to slip ...
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    34,74 €

  • Which Path to Persia?
    Daniel L. Byman / Kenneth M. Pollack / Martin S. Indyk
    'Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque political system, it is no wonder that the United States has not yet figured out the puzzle that is Iran. With the clock ticking on Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities, solving this puzzle is more urgent than ever.In Which Path...
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  • The Sixth and Seventh Day Man
    Robert M. Pollack / Robert MPollack
    A TrilogyBook One: 'The time of Adam and Eve'Book Two: 'The Time of Enoch'Book Three: 'The Time of Noah' ...
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  • Things Fall Apart
    Daniel L. Byman / Kenneth M. Pollack
    '''Iraq is rapidly descending into all-out civil war. Unfortunately, the United States probably will not be able to just walk away from the chaos. Even setting aside the humanitarian nightmare that will ensue, a full-scale civil war would likely consume more than Iraq: historically, such massive conflicts have often had highly deleterious effects on neighboring countries and ot...
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  • New Right in Chile
    M. Pollack
    The 1973 military coup gave previously peripheral elements of the right the opportunity to exercise almost unlimited political and economic power. However, with the return to democracy in 1990, the right had to adapt to electoral politics. This book examines whether it is conforming to the rules of the electoral game. ...
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    48,08 €

  • New Right in Chile
    M. Pollack
    The 1973 military coup gave previously peripheral elements of the right the opportunity to exercise almost unlimited political and economic power. However, with the return to democracy in 1990, the right had to adapt to electoral politics. This book examines whether it is conforming to the rules of the electoral game. ...
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    66,52 €