Alexander Cooley: 4 books
Base Politics
Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense has been moving from a few large-footprint bases...
Logics of Hierarchy
The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business...
Great Games, Local Rules:The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over...
Dictators Without Borders
Power and Money in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated...