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  • Politics And Economics In Putin’s Russia
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) / U.S. Army War College / U.SArmy War College
    The papers included here, except for the editor’s introduction, all come from the Strategic Studies Institute’s annual conference on Russia in May 2012. In one way or another, they all point to the internal pathologies that render Russian security a precarious affair, at the best of times. As the editor suggests, the very fact of this precariousness makes Russia an inherently u...
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    25,77 €

  • The Transatlantic Security Agenda
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    Immediately after the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, NATO members unanimously voted their support for the United States under Article V of the Washington Treaty. This unprecedented action, the first time such a vote has occurred in NATO’s history, underscores the vitality of the Atlantic Alliance and its tremendous strategic value for its members. Thi...
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    18,12 €

  • The Future Of Transcaspian Security
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    The new agreements between NATO and Russia and between the United States and Russia create opportunities for strengthening bilateral and multilateral military activities throughout the former Soviet Union. These could embrace all the militaries of the former Soviet Union and not only enhance military security in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), but also foster mili...
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    18,06 €

  • Rethinking Asymmetric Threats
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    Assessment of the threat environment is a critical element in the formulation of any state’s strategy and defense doctrine. It also should be an inherently critical process that seeks to free policymakers from incorrect, antiquated, or misconceived perceptions about the threat. Consequently, the nature of the threat(s) the United States or any other government faces is the subj...
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    18,41 €

  • Natural Allies? Regional Security In Asia And Prospects For Indo-american Strategic Cooperation
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    One of the hallmarks of the two Bush administrations’ foreign and defense policies has been a growing rapprochement with India. Indeed, in June 2005 the U.S. Government signed a defense agreement with that country. In part, this rapprochement is driven by and coincides with India’s increasingly visible role as a major Asian power. This book-length monograph seeks to illuminate ...
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    25,83 €

  • After Two Wars
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    In the course of its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has deployed forces to hitherto undreamt of destinations in Central Asia and the Caucasus. These deployments reflect more than the exigencies of specific contingencies, but rather are the latest stage in a revolution in strategic affairs that has intersected with the coinciding revolution in military affairs. ...
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    18,35 €

  • The NATO-Russia Partnership
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    Soon after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged Russian support to the U.S. campaign against terrorism. Putin’s actions triggered a process that also led to a Russo-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) rapprochement and Russian membership in a newly formed NATORussia Council created by the Treaty of Rome in 2002. However, since then t...
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    20,78 €

  • Turkmenistan And Central Asia After Niyazov
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    On December 21, 2006, President Sapirmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan’s all-powerful leader suddenly died. His death led to a succession that was evidently dominated by the secret police whose nominee, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has established himself as president. Because Central Asia is a cockpit of great power rivalry and a potential theater in the Global War on Terrorism, no ...
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    20,08 €

  • U.S. Interests In Central Asia And The Challenges To Them
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    For the United States, Central Asia is a region of both growing importance and of growing challenge. Its proximity to Russia, China, Iran, India, and Pakistan;, location as the center of the Global War on Terrorism; and its large energy holdings make it a strategic region where the United States has important, some might even say vital, interests. Those interests pertain, first...
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    17,59 €

  • Towards A New Russia Policy
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    It is obvious that U.S.-Russian relations and East- West relations more broadly have recently deteriorated. Yet analyses of why this is the case have often been confined to American policy. The author of this monograph, Dr. Stephen Blank, seeks to analyze some of the key strategic issues at stake in this relationship and trace that decline to Russian factors which have been ove...
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    22,50 €

  • Prospects for U.S.-Russian Security Cooperation [Enlarged Edition]
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute
    Russia, despite claims made for and against its importance, remains, by any objective standard, a key player in world affairs. Russia is an important barometer of trends in world politics, e.g., the course of democratization in the world. Furthermore, Russia, if it were so disposed, could be the abettor and/or supporter of a host of negative trends in the world today. Even so, ...
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    38,89 €

  • Challenges and Opportunities for the Obama Administration in Central Asia [Enlarged Edition]
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank
    President Obama has outlined a comprehensive strategy for the war in Afghanistan which is now the central front of our campaign against Islamic terrorism. The strategy strongly connects our prosecution of that war to our policy in Pakistan and internal developments there as a necessary condition of victory. But the strategy has also provided for a new logistics road through Cen...
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    19,77 €

  • Politics and Economics in Putin’s Russia (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank / Strategic Studies Institute / U. S. Army War College / U.S. Army War College / USArmy War College
    In one way or another, these papers from the Strategic Studies Institute’s annual conference on Russia in May 2012 included in this book all point to the internal pathologies that render Russian security a precarious affair at the best of times. As the editor suggests, the very fact of this precariousness makes Russia an in¬herently unpredictable and even potentially danger¬ous...
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    31,16 €

  • Central Asia After 2014
    Army War College Press / Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute
    As NATO and the United States proceed to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan, the inherent and preexisting geopolitical, security, and strategic challenges in Central Asia become ever more apparent. The rivalry among the great powers: the United States, China, Russia, India, and others to a lesser degree, are all becoming increasingly more visible as a key factor that will s...
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    25,49 €

  • The Russian Military Today and Tomorrow
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    Given the stakes involved in achieving a correct understanding of Russian and Chinese defense policies and military developments, the magnitude of Mary Fitzgerald’s enlightening accomplishments in this regard becomes clear. But the problems we have outlined in this volume were not unfamiliar to students of the Soviet Union. Indeed, they are enduring strategic issues for Russian...
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    49,57 €

  • Russia’s Prospects in Asia (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    These three chapters originated in an SSI conference in January 2010 and go to the heart of a question of vital significance for both Asia and Russia, namely what are Russia’s prospects in Asia. The three chapters outline the challenges Russia faces in Asia, the nature of the dynamic and complex Asian security environment, and the extent to which Russia is or is not meeting th...
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    23,50 €

  • Russia in the Arctic (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The Arctic has returned with a vengeance to be an area of international contention. Beginning in 2007, Russia has continued to make aggressive moves and claims regarding territory in the Arctic Ocean. These moves undoubtedly have been prompted by global climate change and the importance of energy, with which Russia believes the Arctic is lavishly supplied. These moves apparentl...
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    26,60 €

  • Russian Nuclear Weapons
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    This book presents several essays analyzing Russia’s extensive nuclear agenda and the issue connected with it. It deals with strategy, doctrine, European, Eurasian, and East Asian security agendas, as well as the central U.S.-Russia nuclear and arms control equations. This work brings together American, European, and Russian analysts to discuss Russia’s defense and conventional...
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    56,46 €

  • Central Asian Security Trends
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    On January 25-26, 2010, SSI organized a conference entitled, 'Contemporary issues in International Security,' at the Finnish embassy in Washington, DC. This was the second in what we hoped will be annual conferences bringing together U.S., European, and Russian scholars and experts to discuss such issues in an open forum. The importance of such regular dialogues among experts i...
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    22,33 €

  • Arms Control and Proliferation Challenges to the Reset Policy [Enlarged Edition]
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The so-called New Start Treaty between Russia and the United States entered into force in February 2011. Consequently, this treaty constitutes a baseline for all future bilateral, if not multilateral, efforts at arms control and nonproliferation involving these two powers, including President Barack Obama’s long-term commitment to reaching nuclear zero. Moreover, due to the sal...
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    25,32 €

  • Russia and the Current State of Arms Control (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    Arms control remains the central issue in U.S.-Russian relations. This is so for many reasons, not least of which are the respective capabilities of these two states and their consequent responsibility for preventing both nuclear proliferation and the outbreak of war between them. Thus the state of the bilateral relationship is usually directly proportional to the likelihood of...
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    23,50 €

  • Russia’s Homegrown Insurgency
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The United States has had a bitter set of experiences with insurgencies and counterinsurgency operations, but it is by no means alone in having to confront such threats and challenges. Indeed, according to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the greatest domestic threat to Russia’s security is the ongoing insurgency in the North Caucasus. This insurgency grew out of Russia’s war...
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    39,35 €

  • Can Russia Reform? Economic, Political, and Military Perspectives (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    These papers represent the first in a series of papers taken from the Strategic Studies Institute’s (SSI) fourth annual Russia conference that took place at SSI’s headquarters in Carlisle, PA, on September 26-27, 2011. As such, they also are part of our on-going effort to make sense of and clarify developments in Russia. The three papers presented here offer attempts to charact...
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    24,11 €

  • Russia in the Arctic
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank
    The Arctic has returned with a vengeance to be an area of international contention. Beginning in 2007, Russia has continued to make aggressive moves and claims regarding territory in the Arctic Ocean. These moves undoubtedly have been prompted by global climate change and the importance of energy, with which Russia believes the Arctic is lavishly supplied. These moves apparentl...
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    8,02 €

  • Perspectives on Russian Foreign Policy (Enlarged Edition)
    Stephen J. Blank / Strategic Studies Institute / U.S. Army War College
    The essays gathered here represent a panel at SSI’s annual Russia conference in 2011. They focus on the analysis of Russian foreign policy both on its material side or actual conduct as well as on the cognitive bases of Russian thinking about international affairs and Russian national security. They span much of the gamut of that foreign policy and also show its strong linkages...
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    31,72 €

  • Arms Control and European Security (Enlarged Edition)
    Jr. Louis H. Jordan / Stephen J. Blank Investigation / Strategic Studies Institute
    The following three papers comprise one of the panels form a conference on U.S.-Russia relations that SSI co-sponsored with the Carnegie Council at Pocantico, NY, from June 1-3, 2011, Carnegie Council’s Program on 'U.S. Global Engagement: A Two-Year Retrospective.' The papers offer three contrasting looks at one of the major issues in today’s arms control agenda, namely the fut...
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    18,72 €

  • Operational and Strategic Lessons of the War in Afghanistan, 1979-90
    Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank
    Originally published in 1990, this pertinent study focuses on the purely operational and strategic lessons of the war in Afghanistan. It insists that lessons of these kinds were present and that they offer significant insights both for such wars in general and for the course of Soviet military developments in the 1980s and 1990s. These lessons also offer important clues concern...
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    23,80 €

  • Conflict, Culture, and History
    Et Al / Karl P. Magyar / Karl PMagyar / Stephen J. Blank / Stephen JBlank
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    27,31 €