Afghan endgames

strategy and policy choices for America's longest war

The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant numbers of US combat troops will remain in Afghanistan until at ...

Between terror and tolerance

religious leaders, conflict and peacemaking

Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. A pivotal factor in the escalation of tensions to open conflict is the role of elites in exacerbating tensions along identity lines ...

Power and the past

collective memory and international relations

Eds. Eric Langenbacher, Yossi Shain. Only recently have international relations scholars started to seriously examine the influence of collective memory on foreign policy formation and relations between states and peoples. The ways in which the memories of past events are interpreted, misinterpreted, or even manipulated ...

NATO in search of a vision

Eds. Gülnur Aybet, Rebecca R. Moore; Foreword by Lawrence Freedman. As the NATO Alliance enters its seventh decade, it finds itself involved in an array of military missions ranging from Afghanistan to Kosovo to Sudan. It also stands at the center of a host of ...

Dangerous times?

the international politics of great power peace

What horrors will the twenty-first century bring? For many people, a clash of civilizations and a perilous return to great power rivalries are the dominant visions of things to come. Fueled by daily headlines, overwhelming majorities of people from all walks of life consider the ...

Federalism and environmental policy

trust and the politics of implementation

This revised and updated edition of Federalism and Environmental Policy provides a significant contribution to our understanding of relationships between the states and the national government. The major contribution of this work is to set the environmental policy process in its unique constitutional and political ...

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America

How governments privatize

the politics of divestment in the United States and Germany

This study of two successful divestment agencies - the US Resolution Trust Corporation and the German Treuhandanstalt - presents a complex understanding of the two agencies' performance in privatizing hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two very different crises, the savings and loan debacle in ...