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Africa’s Democratic Moment? 31/07/2019

New acquisitions. These are the books, pamphlets and articles added to the IISS library collection in June:

Africa

The root causes of Sudan's civil wars: old wars and new wars
Johnson, Douglas H
Woodbridge: James Currey, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Africa's democratic moment?: the five leaders who could transform the region
Devermont, Judd
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/africa/2019-06-11/africas-democratic-moment

Arms Control & Disarmament

Addressing the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Gibbons, Rebecca Davis
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1590080

A Theory of Engagement with North Korea
Lawrence, Christopher
Cambridge MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2019
https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/A%20Theory%20of%20Engagement%20with%20North%20Korea_2.pdf

Hedging our bets: why does nuclear latency matter?
Whitlark, Rachel
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1592363

Asia General

Did India lose China?
Rajagopalan, Rajesh
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1592364

East Asia

Where is Washington?: the missing mediator between Seoul and Tokyo
Seong-hyon, Lee
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593767

South Asia

India's counterforce temptations: dilemmas, doctrine and capabilities
Clary, Christopher
International Security, Winter 2018/19
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00340

Southeast Asia & Australasia

First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers
Ung, Loung
London: Transworld, 2001
Book: available from the IISS Library

A history of Cambodia
Chandler, David
Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2008
Book: available from the IISS Library

China

Chairman Xi remakes the PLA: assessing Chinese military reforms
Saunders, Phillip C
Washington, DC: National Defence University Press, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

The new Tiananmen papers: inside the secret meeting that changed China
Nathan, Andrew J
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2019-05-30/new-tiananmen-papers

Why China has not caught up yet: military-technological superiority and the limits of imitation, reverse engineering and cyber espionage
Gilli, Andrea
International Security, Winter 2018/19
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00337

Civil Society & Governance

The democratization disconnect: how recent democratic revolutions threaten the future of democracy
Grodsky, Brian K
Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Democracy demotion: how the freedom agenda fell apart
Diamond, Larry
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-06-11/democracy-demotion

A world safe for autocracy?: China's rise and the future of global politics
Weiss, Jessica Chen
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2019-06-11/world-safe-autocracy

Bad World : the negativity bias in international politics
Johnson, Dominic D P
International Security, Winter 2018/19
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00336

Conflict Management & Peacekeeping

Power in peacekeeping
Howard, Lise Morje
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Cyber
Is cyber strategy possible?
Hoffman, Wyatt
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593665

Defence & Armed Forces

Security at a price: the international politics of US ballistic missile defense
Khoo, Nicholas
Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Weapon of choice: small arms and the culture of military innovation
Ford, Matthew
London : Hurst & Company, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

Diplomacy

Why and how to succeed at network diplomacy
Manulak, Michael W
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593668

Economics

The perils of geo-economics
Kim, D**g Jung
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593666

Faith-based finance: how Wall Street became a cult of risk
Tett, Gillian
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-06-11/faith-based-finance

The global economy's next winners: what it takes to thrive in the automation age
Lund, Susan
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2019-06-11/global-economys-next-winners

Globalization's wrong turn and how it hurt America
Rodrik, Dani
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-06-11/globalizations-wrong-turn

Europe

Europe alone: what comes after the transatlantic alliance
Polyakova, Alina
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/europe/2019-06-11/europe-alone

European Union

Security relations between China and the European Union: from convergence to cooperation?
Kirchner, Emil J
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

After Europe
Krastev, Ivan
Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

International Affairs

The rise and fall of peace on earth
Mandelbaum, Michael
New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Advice for a dark age: managing great power competition
Porter, Patrick
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1590079

International Law

Will human rights survive in a multipolar world?
Kaplan, Seth
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593768

Latin America & Caribbean

America's forgotten colony: ending Puerto Rico's perpetual crisis
Weiss, Antonio
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/puerto-rico/2019-06-11/americas-forgotten-colony

Middle East

The US army and the Battle for Baghdad: lessons learned-and still to be learned
Johnson, David E
Santa Monica CA: Rand, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3076.html

Population

With great demographics comes great power: why population will drive geopolitics
Eberstadt, Nicholas
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2019-06-11/great-demographics-comes-great-power

Russia & Eurasia

The future of the Russian military : Russia's ground combat capabilities and implications for US-Russia competition
Radin, Andrew
Santa Monica CA : Rand, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Russia's military strategy and doctrine
Howard, Glen E
Washington DC : Jamestown Foundation, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

The future of the Russian military: Russia's ground combat capabilities and implications for US-Russia competition
Radin, Andrew
Santa Monica CA : Rand, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3099.html

Extending Russia: competing from advantageous ground
Dobbins, James
Santa Monica CA: Rand, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2075.html

Political elite renewal in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
Gherasimov, Cristina
London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2019
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2019-05-14-Political%20Elite%20Renewal.pdf

Statebuilding

The wartime origins of democratization: civil war, rebel governance and political regimes
Huang, Reyko
New York NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Terrorism, Insurgency & Crime

Hezbollah: mobilisation and power
Daher, Aurelie
London: Hurst & Company, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Horn, Sahel and Rift: fault-lines of the African jihad
Hansen, Stig Jarle
London: Hurst & Company, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Everything you have told me is true: the many faces of Al Shabaab
Harper, Mary
London: Hurst & Company, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Preventing the next Lashkar-e-Tayyiba attack
Bacon, Tricia
Washington Quarterly, Spring 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2019.1594135

United Kingdom

Guide to Defence and Security: key trends and contracts 2019
United Kingdom. Ministry of Defence
Glasgow: BiP Solutions, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

United States & Canada

Scales on war: the future of America's military at risk
Scales, Bob
Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Oppose any foe : the rise of America's special operations forces
Moyar, Mark
New York NY: Basic Books, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

America's strategy-resource mismatch : addressing the gaps between US National Strategy and military capacity
Bonds, Timothy
Santa Monica CA: Rand, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2691.html

The Republican devolution: partisanship and the decline of American governance
Hacker, Jacob S
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-06-11/republican-devolution

It’s the institutions, stupid: the real roots of America's political crisis
Azari, Julia
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-06-11/its-institutions-stupid

The self-destruction of American power: Washington squandered the unipolar moment
Zakaria, Fareed
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-06-11/self-destruction-american-power

American hustle: what Mueller found - and didn't find - about Trump and Russia
Kotkin, Stephen
Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-05-21/american-hustle

War Studies

Men at war: what fiction tells us about conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22
Coker, Christopher
London: C Hurst, 2014
Book: available from the IISS Library

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the coming of the Great War
Massie, Robert K
London : Vintage, 2007
Book: available from the IISS Library

On wargaming: how wargames have shaped history and how they may shape the future
Caffrey, Matthew B
Newport RI: US Naval War College, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

The secret life of war: journeys through modern conflict
Beaumont, Peter
London: Vintage, 2009
Book: available from the IISS Library

The demographic transition theory of war: why young societies are conflict prone and old societies are the most peaceful
Brooks, Deborah Jordan
International Security, Winter 2018/19
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00335

Africa’s Democratic Moment?

21/05/2019

These are the books, pamphlets and articles added to the IISS library collection during April:

Africa
Consolidation de la paix et fragilite etatique: L'ONU en Republique centrafricaine, Coulon, Jocelyn
Montreal: Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

The new-old elites and their relations with the EU: the cases of Egypt and Tunisia, Gunay, Cengiz
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2019
https://www.euromesco.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EuroMeSCo40_New-Old-elites.-Cases-of-Tunisia-and-Egypt.pdf

Stolen dreams: how corruption negates government assistance to Nigeria’s small businesses, Page, Matthew T
Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2019
https://carnegieendowment.org/files/Page_Okeke_Nigeria_final.pdf

Sudan and South Sudan: violence trajectories after peace agreements, Bello-Schunemann, Julia
Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2019
https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/ear-22.pdf

Mauritania’s unfolding landscape: elections, hydrocarbons and socio-economic change, Melly, Paul
London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2019
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2019-04-11-Mauritania%27s%20Unfolding%20Landscape.pdf

Global power shifts, rational choice and role conflict: explaining the trajectories of the central Maghreb countries’ EU policies since 2011, Fernandez-Molina, Irene
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2019
https://www.euromesco.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EuroMeSCo39_Global-Power-Shifts_Rational-Choice_Role-Conflict_Explaining-the-Trajectories-of-Central-Maghreb-Countries-EU-Policies.pdf

African Union security culture in practice: African problems and African solutions, Glas, Aarie
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/1121/5092112

Rebuilding Mali's army: the dissonant relationship between Mali and its international partners, Tull, Denis M
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/405/5315698

The impact of Sicomines on development in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Maiza-Larrarte, Andoni
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/423/5308854

Displacement from gendered personhood: sexual violence and masculinities in northern Uganda, Schulz, Philipp
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/1101/5092094

Understanding the illegal ivory trade: evidence from Uganda, Titeca, Kristof
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/1077/5092101

Regional power and contested hierarchy: Ethiopia, an imperfect hegemon in the Horn of Africa, le Gouriellec, Sonia
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/1059/5092073

Arms Control & Disarmament

Reducing nuclear dangers on the Korean peninsula: bilateral versus multilateral approaches, Graham, Thomas
Berkeley CA: Nautilus Institute, 2019
https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/reducing-nuclear-dangers-on-the-korean-peninsula-bilateral-versus-multilateral-approaches/?view=pdf

East Asia

China-Russia naval cooperation in East Asia: implications for Japan, Brown, James
Seattle WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2019
http://maritimeawarenessproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/analysis_brown_032619.pdf

The China-Russia entente and the Korean peninsula
Choo, Jaewoo, Seattle WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2019
https://www.nbr.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/publications/sr78_china_russia_entente_march2019.pdf

China in search of a liberal partnership international order
Xinbo, Wu, International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/995/5092100

Rethinking China's rise: Chinese scholars debate strategic overstretch, Pu, Xiaoyu
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/1019/5092108

Remembering the past to secure the present: Versailles legacies in a resurgent China, Foot, Rosemary
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/143/5273541

Civil Society & Governance

Disordered minds: how dangerous personalities are destroying democracy, Hughes, Ian
Wi******er: Zero Books, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

Why govern?: rethinking demand and progress in global governance, Acharya, Amitav
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

The state we're in: reflecting on democracy's troubles
Cook, Joanna, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

The dark side of sunlight: how transparency helps lobbyists and hurts the public, D'Angelo, James
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-04-16/dark-side-sunlight

Conflict Management & Peacekeeping

Peace agreements: finding solutions to intra-state conflicts
Caspersen, Nina
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

Cyber

The darkening web: the war for cyberspace
Klimburg, Alexander, New York NY: Penguin Press, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

Huawei cyber security evaluation centre oversight board: annual report 2019, United Kingdom, Cabinet Office & United Kingdom, National Security Secretariat
London: Cabinet Office, 2019
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/790270/HCSEC_OversightBoardReport-2019.pdf

Killer apps: the real dangers of an AI arms race, Scharre, Paul. Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/killer-apps

Defence & Armed Forces

The new revolution in military affairs: war's sci-fi future
Brose, Christian, Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/new-revolution-military-affairs

Peace through strength: Europe and NATO deterrence beyond the US nuclear posture review, McCrisken, Trevor
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/277/5320514

Diplomacy

The lost art of American diplomacy: can the State Department be saved? Burns, William J
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-03-27/lost-art-american-diplomacy

Europe

European strategic autonomy: actors, issues, conflicts of interest, Lippert, Barbara
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2019
https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2019RP04_lpt_orz_prt_web.pdf

Europe: between dream and reality? Jones, Erik
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/161/5273548

The new German question: what happens when Europe comes apart? Kagan, Robert
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/2019-04-02/new-german-question

Versailles: the economic legacy, Eichengreen, Barry
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/7/5273535

Intelligence

Spies, lies and algorithms: why US intelligence agencies must adapt or fail, Zegart, Amy B
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/spies-lies-and-algorithms

International Affairs

The rise and fall of Great Power wars, Freedman, Lawrence
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/101/5273576

Empires after 1919: old, new, transformed, Burbank, Jane
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/81/5273569

All the king's consultants: the perils of advising authoritarians, Jones, Calvert
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/persian-gulf/2019-04-16/all-kings-consultants

The uses of history in international society: from the Paris Peace Conference to the present, MacMillan, Margaret
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/181/5273572

Power as prestige in world politics, Khong, Yuen Foong
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/119/5273583

International Law

International law and its transformation through the outlawry of war. Hathaway, Oona A
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/45/5273581

International Organisations

The evolution of legitimacy of international security institutions, Cotterell, M Patrick
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Remembering 1919: international organizations and the future of international order, Sluga, Glenda
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/25/5273545

Regional international organizations as a strategy of autocracy: the Eurasian Economic Union and Russian foreign policy, Libman, Alexander
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/1037/5092105

Latin America

Argentina, Brazil and Chile and Democracy defence in Latin America: principled calculation, Feldmann, Andreas E
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/447/5366542

Middle East

The soft power-soft disempowerment nexus: the case of Qatar, Brannagan, Paul Michael
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/1139/5092085

Iran's Syria strategy: the evolution of deterrence
Ahmadian, Hassan
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/341/5306386

Hard truths in Syria: America can't do more with less, and it shouldn't try, McGurk, Brett
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2019-04-16/hard-truths-syria

Targeting infrastructure and livelihoods in the West Bank and Gaza, Weinthal, Erika
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/319/5315699

Russia & Eurasia

Russian political war: moving beyond the hybrid, Galeotti, Mark
Abingdon: Routledge, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Moscow rules: what drives Russia to confront the West
Giles, Keir
Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

The role of Russia in the Middle East and North Africa region: strategy or opportunism, Talbot, Valeria
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2019
https://www.euromesco.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Joint-Policy-Study_12_The-role-of-Russia-in-the-MENA-region.pdf

In from the cold: Russia's agenda in the Middle East and implications for the EU, Muhlberger, Wolfgang
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2019
https://www.euromesco.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Brief91-In-from-the-cold_Russia_Agenda_In_The_Middle_East-1.pdf

Russia's arms exports to the MENA region: trends and drivers, Kuimova, Alexandra
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2019
https://www.euromesco.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Brief95-Russia-Arms-transfer-to-the-MENA-region.pdf

Dazed and confused: Russian information warfare and the Middle East - the Syria lessons, Nocetti, Julien
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2019
https://www.euromesco.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Brief93_Dazed-and-oncufsed.-Russian-information-warfare.pdf

Russian ground forces posture towards the West, Dick, Charles
London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2019
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2019-04-04-Dick.pdf

State, media and civil society in the information warfare over Ukraine: citizen curators of digital disinformation
Golovchenko, Yevgeniy
International Affairs (Chatham House), September 2018
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/94/5/975/5092080

Security & Political Risk

Connectography: mapping the global network revolution
Khanna, Parag
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Deterring Russian aggression in the Baltic States through resilience and resistance, Flanagan, Stephen J
Santa Monica CA: Rand, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2779.html

Strategy

Hybrid interference as a wedge strategy: a theory of external interference in liberal democracy, Wigell, Mikael
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/255/5320385

Terrorism, Insurgency & Crime

The calypso caliphate: how Trinidad became a recruiting ground for ISIS, Cottee, Simon
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/297/5366526

Reputations and the fight against tax evasion: EU pressure and Asian financial centres, Vogt, Roland
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/365/5320515

United Kingdom

Investigation into submarine defueling and dismantling
United Kingdom, National Audit Office & United Kingdom, Ministry of Defence. London: The National Audit Office, 2019
https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Investigation-into-submarine-defueling-and-dismantling.pdf

The UK's European diplomatic strategy for Brexit and beyond, Whitman, Richard G
International Affairs (Chatham House), March 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/2/383/5366523

United States & Canada

Characteristics of successful US military interventions
Kavanagh, Jennifer
Santa Monica CA: Rand, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3062.html

The rise and fall of American hegemony from Wilson to Trump, Nye, Joseph S
International Affairs (Chatham House), January 2019
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/95/1/63/5273551

This time is different: why US foreign policy will never recover, Drezner, Daniel W
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/time-different

The open world: what America can achieve after Trump,
Rapp-Hooper, Mira
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/open-world

Back to basics: how to make right what Trump gets wrong,
Schake, Kori
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/back-basics

The longest wars: Richard Holbrooke and the decline of American power, Packer, George
Foreign Affairs vol 98 no 3 May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/longest-wars

The end of hubris: and the new age of American restraint
Walt, Stephen M
Foreign Affairs, May/Jun 2019
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/end-hubris

Urban Studies

Welcome to the urban revolution: how cities are changing the world, Brugmann, Jeb
Noida: HarperCollins, 2009
Book: available from the IISS Library

Urban safety and peacebuilding: new perspectives on sustaining peace in the city, Wennmann, Achim
Abingdon: Routledge, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

War Studies

Creating military power: the sources of military effectiveness, Brooks, Risa
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2007
Book: available from the IISS Library

Targeted interoperability: a new imperative for multinational operations, Pernin, Christopher G
Santa Monica CA: Rand, 2019
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2075.html

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New acquisitions

These are the books, pamphlets and articles added to the IISS library collection during March:

Africa

State of rebellion: violence and intervention in the Central African Republic
Lombard, Louisa N
London: Zed Books, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Making sense of the Central African Republic
Carayannis, Tatiana
London: Zed Books, 2015
Book: available from the IISS Library

Arms Control & Disarmament

The control agenda: a history of the strategic arms limitation talks
Ambrose, Matthew J
Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

The long arm: how US law enforcement expanded its extraterritorial reach to counter WMD proliferation networks
Arnold, Aaron
Cambridge MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2019
https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/2019-03/TheLongArm_Mar19.pdf

Alliances and nuclear proliferation in the Trump era
Lanoszka, Alexander
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1557976

Asia

Strategic Asia 2019: China'a expanding strategic ambitions
Tellis, Ashley J
Seattle WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

East Asia

Taiwan's potential role in the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy: convergence in the South Pacific
Roy, Denny
Seattle WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2019
https://www.nbr.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/publications/special_report_77_taiwans_potential_role_in_the_free_and_open_indo-pacific_strategy.pdf

The long-term basis for a US-Korea alliance
O'Hanlon, Michael
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1558658

South Asia

The people next door: the curious history of India's relations with Pakistan
Raghavan, T C A
London: Hurst & Company, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

India connected: how the smartphone is transforming the world's largest democracy
Agrawal, Ravi
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

Nuclear ethics? Why Pakistan has not used nuclear weapons ... yet
Abdullah, Sannia
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1558681

Nuclear emulation: Pakistan's nuclear trajectory
Tasleem, Sadia
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1558662

Civil Society & Governance

The despot's apprentice: Donald Trump's attack on democracy
Klaas, Brian
London: Hurst & Company, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Preventing extremism in fragile states: a new approach
United States Institute of Peace
Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2018
https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2019-02/preventing-extremism-in-fragile-states-a-new-approach.pdf

Cyber

Hacking the bomb: cyber threats and nuclear weapons
Futter, Andrew
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

Progress of the 2016-2021 National Cyber Security Programme
United Kingdom. National Audit Office
London: The National Audit Office, 2019
https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Progress-of-the-2016-2021-National-Cyber-Security-Programme.pdf

Defence & Armed Forces

Oceans ventured: winning the cold war at sea
Lehman, John
New York NY: W. W. Norton & Co, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

Routledge handbook of air power: cooperation and conflict at sea
Olsen, John Andreas
Abingdon: Routledge, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

Diplomacy

The back channel: a memoir of American diplomacy and the case for its renewal
Burns, William J
London: Hurst & Company, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Eastern Europe

Anatomy of post-communist European defence institutions: the mirage of modernity
Young, Thomas-Durell
London: Bloomsbury, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

Europe

A certain idea of France: the life of Charles de Gaulle
Jackson, Andrew
London: Allen Lane, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

The world according to Germany: reassessing 1989
Bagger, Thomas
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1558609

International Affairs

The lost art of long-term competition
Brands, Hal
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1556559

The future of international order(s)
Tang, Shiping
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1557499

International Organisations

NATO at seventy: an alliance in crisis
Lute, Douglas
Cambridge MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2019
https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/NATOatSeventy.pdf

Middle East

A history of modern Oman
Jones, Jeremy
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015
Book: available from the IISS Library

Armies of sand: the past, present and future of Arab military effectiveness
Pollack, Kenneth
New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Russia and Iran: economic influence in Syria
Hatahet, Sinan
London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2019
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2019-03-08RussiaAndIranEconomicInfluenceInSyria.pdf

Population

What is a refugee?
Maley, William
London: Hurst & Company, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

Russia & Eurasia

Nuclear security in the Black Sea region: contested spaces, national capacities and multinational potential
Fedchenko, Vitaly
Solna: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018
https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2018-12/sipripp49_nuclear_security_black_sea.pdf

Azerbaijan’s relations with Russia: closer by default?
Shiriyev, Zaur
London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2019
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2019-03-14-Azerbaijan2.pdf

Armenia’s foreign policy balancing in an age of uncertainty
Shirinyan, Anahit
London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2019
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2019-03-14-Armenia3.pdf

Rebuilding collective security in the Black Sea region
Melvin, Neil J
Solna: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018
https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2018-12/sipripp50_0.pdf

Statebuilding

Independence movements and their aftermath: self-determination and the struggle for success
Alterman, Jon B
Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

Strategy

The end of grand strategy: US maritime operations in the 21st century
Reich, Simon
Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

United States & Canada

On the brink: Trump, Kim and the threat of nuclear war
Jackson, Van
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
Book: available from the IISS Library

In the shadows of the American century: the rise and decline of US global power
McCoy, Alfred
Chicago IL: Haymarket Books, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

Empire in retreat: the past, present and future of the United States
Bulmer-Thomas, Victor
New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2018
Book: available from the IISS Library

Should the United States fear China's rise?
Shifrinson, Joshua R Itzkowitz
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1557491

A eulogy for the two-war construct
Mitre, Jim
Washington Quarterly, Winter 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1557479

Urban Studies

Vertical: the city from satellites to bunkers
Graham, Stephen
London: Verso, 2016
Book: available from the IISS Library

War Studies

Wartime sexual violence: from silence to condemnation of a weapon of war
Crawford, Kerry F
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017
Book: available from the IISS Library

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