Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Challenging the Performance Movement
Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
"Accountability" is a watchword of our era. Dissatisfaction with a range of public and private institutions is widespread and often expressed in strong critical rhetoric. The reasons for these views are varied and difficult to translate into concrete action, but this hasn't deterred governments and nongovernmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a concept of a "just war," it follows naturally that the time has come to fill in the outlines of...
American Power and Liberal Order
A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers and scholars that the United States should pull back in international affairs and that restraint should guide grand strategy. Paul D. Miller offers a tough-minded critique of this trending body of thought, arguing that US security in fact depends...
Intelligence and Surprise Attack
Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
How can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even...
An Argument for Same-Sex Marriage
Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The relationship between religious belief and sexuality as personal attributes exhibits some provocative comparisons. Despite the nonestablishment of religion in the United States and the constitutional guarantee of free exercise, Christianity functions as the religious and moral standard in America....
Just War
Authority, Tradition, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority,...
by John M. Lipski
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
Thirty-three million people in the United States speak some variety of Spanish, making it the second most used language in the country. Some of these people are recent immigrants from many different countries who have brought with them the linguistic traits of their homelands, while others come from...
Dust-Up
Asbestos Litigation and the Failure of Commonsense Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
In an era of polarization, narrow party majorities, and increasing use of supermajority requirements in the Senate, policy entrepreneurs must find ways to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions in Congress. One such coalition-building strategy is the “politics of efficiency,” or reform...
War and the Art of Governance
Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate a new political order are not separate from war. They are instead an essential component of war and victory.
The challenge of governance operations did not start...
Exporting Security
International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the US Military, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
In this thoroughly updated second edition, Derek S. Reveron provides a comprehensive analysis of the shift in US foreign policy from coercive diplomacy to cooperative military engagement. The US military does much more than fight wars; it responds to humanitarian crises and natural disasters, assists...
Story of a Secret State
My Report to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German...
Water
Asia's New Battleground
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz 2012 Book AwardThe battles of yesterday were fought over land. Those of today are over energy. But the battles of tomorrow may be over water. Nowhere is that danger greater than in water-distressed Asia.Water stress is set to become Asia’s defining crisis...
The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture
Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences. Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but...
A Revolution in Military Adaptation
The US Army in the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically integrated...