Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Nuclear Authority
The IAEA and the Absolute Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Once dismissed as ineffectual, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in the past twenty years emerged as a powerful international organization. Member states allow the IAEA to render judgment on matters vital to peace and security while nations around the globe comply with its rules and commands...
The End of Strategic Stability?
Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently....
Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age
Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
As the aspirations of the two rising Asian powers collide, the China-India rivalry is likely to shape twenty-first-century international politics in the region and far beyond.
This volume by T.V. Paul and an international group of leading scholars examines whether the rivalry between the two...
The Art of Teaching Spanish
Second Language Acquisition from Research to Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The Art of Teaching Spanish explores in-depth the findings of research in second language acquisition (SLA) and other language-related fields and translates those findings into practical pedagogical tools for current—and future—Spanish-language instructors. This volume addresses how theoretical frameworks...
by Robert Agranoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens’ groups. This process of governance across levels of government, jurisdictions, and types of actors is called intergovernmental relations, and intergovernmental...
Biosecurity Dilemmas
Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of “biosecurity,” the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons....
The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited
Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does “victory” mean in contemporary conflict?
In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing...
Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition
Methods, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
How do people learn nonnative languages? Is there one part or function of our brains solely dedicated to language processing, or do we apply our general information-processing abilities when learning a new language? In this book, an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and researchers presents...
Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish
A Cross-Dialectal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish to provide a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic...
Cuban Spanish Dialectology
Variation, Contact, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuba Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and...
India's Rise as an Asian Power
Nation, Neighborhood, and Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
India’s Rise as an Asian Power examines India’s rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region. Instead of a straight-line projection...
Law's Virtues
Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Can the law promote moral values even in pluralistic societies such as the United States? Drawing upon important federal legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, legal scholar and moral theologian Cathleen Kaveny argues that it can. In conversation with thinkers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas,...
Pursuing Moral Warfare
Ethics in American, British, and Israeli Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
During combat, soldiers make life-and-death choices dozens of times a day. These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars. This work examines the theory and practice of military ethics in counterinsurgency operations. Marcus Schulzke surveys the ethical traditions that militaries...