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Peace Studies

The academic field of Peace Studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict and methods to prevent it and deal with…

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Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War

Matthew Evangelista

Throughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the US and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. This text explores the impact of networks formed by prominent scientists…

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Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror

Matthew Evangelista

In recent years the mass murder of thousands of innocent civilians by al Qaeda terrorists has plumbed the depths of criminality and immorality. Yet it is the response to those…

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Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror

Matthew Evangelista

In recent years the mass murder of thousands of innocent civilians by al Qaeda terrorists has plumbed the depths of criminality and immorality. Yet it is the response to those…

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Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies

Matthew Evangelista

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Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century

Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

The book seeks to understand Italy’s approach to crises by studying the country in regional, international, and comparative context. Without assuming that the country is abnormal or unusually crisis-prone, the…

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Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940-1945: Bombing among Friends

Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical, legal, and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians, to students of military strategy and Italian…

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Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century

Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, USA)

The book seeks to understand Italy’s approach to crises by studying the country in regional, international, and comparative context. Without assuming that the country is abnormal or unusually crisis-prone, the…

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Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen

Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, New York)

In an age of female suicide bombers, comfortable assumptions about the peaceful nature of women have become questionable. This book explores the relationship between gender and nationalist violence by examining…

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Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen

Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University, New York)

In an age of female suicide bombers, comfortable assumptions about the peaceful nature of women have become questionable. This book explores the relationship between gender and nationalist violence by examining…

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New Wars, New Laws? Applying Laws of War in 21st Century Conflicts

With the Persian Gulf War, NATO’s ‘zero casualty’ war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s over the latter’s actions in Kosovo, September 11 and its aftermath, and the U.S.-led wars…

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The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones

This volume brings together prominent military historians, practitioners, civilian and military legal experts, political scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists to explore the evolution of ethical and legal norms governing air warfare.

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The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones

This volume brings together prominent military historians, practitioners, civilian and military legal experts, political scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists to explore the evolution of ethical and legal norms governing air warfare.

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Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?

Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare and a more specific investigation relating to state practice and gives insight into how…

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Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?

Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare and a more specific investigation relating to state practice and gives insight into how…

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Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War

Matthew Evangelista (Professor of Government, Cornell University, New York, USA)

Throughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists…

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The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?

Matthew Evangelista (Professor of Government and Director of the Peace Studies Program, Cornell University, USA)

In the wake of September 11, Moscow has called its military occupation of Chechnya an “anti-terrorist operation” in an effort to deflect criticisms of the widespread human rights abuses and…

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Democracy and Security: Preferences, Norms and Policy-Making

This edited book offers a broad examination of how democratic preferences and norms are relevant to security policy beyond the decision of whether to go to war, therefore providing a…

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Democracy and Security: Preferences, Norms and Policy-Making

This edited book offers a broad examination of how democratic preferences and norms are relevant to security policy beyond the decision of whether to go to war, therefore providing a…

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Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs

Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg

An edited version of the thesis by the same name submitted by Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg in May 1997 to the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of…

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