Category: International Studies
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Book Review: “Negotiating the New START Treaty” by Rose Gottemoeller
“Rose Gottemoeller, who served as undersecretary of state for arms control in the Obama administration, was tasked with negotiating the first comprehensive bilateral nuclear-arms-control treaty between the United States and Russia in more than a quarter of a century, and to do so in less than a year – an unprecedentedly short time. Despite the…
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Book Review: “Negotiating the New START Treaty” by Rose Gottemoeller
“A compelling first-hand account … provides critical perspective on negotiations with the Russians, as well as the U.S. government, particularly the U.S. Senate. … offers important context of the strategic logic behind the tussles over technical issues by various actors and stakeholders. … By explaining why Russians and Americans held different approaches to how to…
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3 Must-Read Books for US-China Relations
A recent Wall Street Journal article reports that “thirty-seven percent of Americans polled listed East Asia as the region where the U.S. should dedicate most of its military forces.” Here are three must-read books recommended by experts
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Book Excerpt from “Military Strategy for the 21st Century”
This book by Lieutenant General Charles Cleveland, Dr. Benjamin Jensen, Colonel Susan Bryant, and Lieutenant Colonel Arnel David calls for the rethinking of how the U.S. national security community approaches population-centric warfare and strategic competition in the 21st century. Strategic advantage in the 21st century will emerge from mapping human geography in a connected world, leveraging…
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Book Excerpt from Ensuring National Government Stability After US Counterinsurgency Operations by Dallas Shaw
With the current situation in Afghanistan, the book, Ensuring National Government Stability After US Counterinsurgency Operations: The Critical Measure of Success, by retired Marine Dr. Dallas Shaw is a timely must-read.
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Excerpt from Negotiating the New START Treaty by Rose Gottemoeller
On Anatoly Antonov, her Russian counterpart in negotiating the treaty, Rose Gottemoller reveals: We had a wary mutual respect. That mutual respect was almost upended, though, by the “tough-girl negotiator” incident. After the April meeting of the presidents, we were driving a hard pace to complete the new treaty. As we entered June and were…
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POLITICO Magazine article by the Honorable Rose Gottemoeller—the first woman to to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation and the first female NATO Deputy Secretary General
Read this POLITICO Magazine article by the Honorable Rose Gottemoeller—the first woman to to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation and the first female NATO Deputy Secretary General—which includes an excerpt from her new book Negotiating the New START Treaty released this week. What the experts are saying about the book: Future negotiators would benefit…
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#ISA2020 Highlights – Outstanding Books by Excellent Women Authors
On International Women’s Day, we are very proud to highlight some outstanding books by excellent women authors. Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena (UC Berkeley) author of Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries by Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena is praised…
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ISSS-IS 2019 Annual Conference, Denver
Cambria Press is proud to be a silver sponsor for the 2019 ISSS-IS Annual Conference, which will be held at the Sié Center at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, in Denver, Colorado, October 18–19. Be sure to browse the Cambria Press table for new and noteworthy books in the Rapid Communications in Conflict…
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China’s Response to the Sino–U.S. Trade War→The Gathering Pacific Storm
Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) has reported that Rear Admiral Lou Yuan, deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, declared during a Dec. 20 speech delivered in Shenzhen, China, that the ongoing disputes over the ownership of the East and South China Seas could be resolved by sinking two US super carriers. This…