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Product Description: Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for ―the first comprehensive systematic global analysis of 21st century state-initiated internal and external applications of brute force...read more

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9780804793841 | Stanford Univ Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force.

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9780804793988 | Stanford Univ Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $29.95

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9780804784979 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 17, 2013, cover price $110.00

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9780804784986 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 17, 2013, cover price $32.50

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Product Description: Here is the book you've been waiting for, a perfect companion at the perfect time. If you suffer from financial stress, distress, aches and pains, traditional medicine is useless. Alternative therapy is called for. Here you undergo the spiritual healing necessary to relax your mind, restore your connection with inner peace, and rekindle your faith, enthusiasm, and optimism...read more

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9781440153105 | Iuniverse Inc, July 30, 2009, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Here is the book you've been waiting for, a perfect companion at the perfect time.

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Product Description: This book provides a fresh perspective on causes, consequences, and cures surrounding today's most pressing global security challenges. After explaining the changes in post-Cold War threat, it develops a novel target-centered approach to assessment and management that is more useful in coping with current foreign dangers than current best practices...read more

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9780313358456 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2008, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: This book provides a fresh perspective on causes, consequences, and cures surrounding today's most pressing global security challenges.

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Product Description: How has the concept of victory evolved, as the nature of conflict itself has changed across time, circumstance, and culture? And to what end? Robert Mandel addresses these questions, considering the meanings, misperceptions, and challenges associated with military victory in the context of the nontraditional wars of recent decades...read more

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9781588264237 | Lynne Rienner Pub, July 30, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: How has the concept of victory evolved, as the nature of conflict itself has changed across time, circumstance, and culture?

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9781588264480 | Lynne Rienner Pub, July 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: How has the concept of victory evolved, as the nature of conflict itself has changed across time, circumstance, and culture?

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Product Description: In recent decades, government and military officials alike have pushed increasingly in the direction of "bloodless wars," where confrontations are undertaken - and ultimately won - with minimum loss of human life. Robert Mandel provides the first comprehensive analysis of this trend...read more

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9781588262691 | Lynne Rienner Pub, July 12, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In recent decades, government and military officials alike have pushed increasingly in the direction of "bloodless wars," where confrontations are undertaken - and ultimately won - with minimum loss of human life.

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Product Description: What does the increasing use of private security forces mean for governments? For individuals? This work offers a comprehensive analysis of the varieties, causes, and consequences of this growing phenomenon. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781588260666 | Lynne Rienner Pub, June 1, 2002, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: What does the increasing use of private security forces mean for governments?

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Product Description: Mandel's comprehensive study provides an integrated, explanatory analysis of the new global security environment, which he terms the global playground, and the consequent blossoming of ominous flows or deadly transfers. It includes an analysis of the behavior of rogue states, terrorist groups, transnational criminal organizations, and deviant individuals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275962289 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 1999, cover price $118.00 | About this edition: Mandel's comprehensive study provides an integrated, explanatory analysis of the new global security environment, which he terms the global playground, and the consequent blossoming of ominous flows or deadly transfers.

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Product Description: This book contains a probing and comprehensive theoretical analysis of the emerging notion of national security in light of the dramatic post-Cold War transformation of the international system. It begins with a discussion of the nature of this change, emphasizing declining national sovereignty, escalating international interdependence, and proliferating anarchic conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313285196 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 1994, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: This book contains a probing and comprehensive theoretical analysis of the emerging notion of national security in light of the dramatic post-Cold War transformation of the international system.

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Product Description: As resource scarcity threatens and the economic gap between affluent and poorer nations continues to widen, conflict over natural resources is assuming critical dimensions. Mandel analyzes the causes and consequences of present tensions and offers case studies of five recent or ongoing resource conflicts illustrating major areas of confrontation and identifying the range of policy issues we need to confront...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313261299 | Praeger Pub Text, October 24, 1988, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: As resource scarcity threatens and the economic gap between affluent and poorer nations continues to widen, conflict over natural resources is assuming critical dimensions.

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Product Description: The first book to explore systematically and comprehensively the influence and utility of irrationality in international relations, this study begins with an intensive exploration of the nature of irrationality. The author proceeds to examine twelve case studies in which irrationality has figured prominently in international confrontations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313259500 | Praeger Pub Text, August 4, 1987, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: The first book to explore systematically and comprehensively the influence and utility of irrationality in international relations, this study begins with an intensive exploration of the nature of irrationality.

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