Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the pers...(展开全部)

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and political scientists usually relates to issues of resolve. Yet, though we rely on resolve to explain almost every phenomenon in international politics—from prevailing at the bargaining...(展开全部)

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and political scientists usually relates to issues of resolve. Yet, though we rely on resolve to explain almost every phenomenon in international politics—from prevailing at the bargaining...(展开全部)

The Marvel Universe is no more! The interdimensional Incursions have eliminated each and every dimension one by one - and now, despite the best eff orts of the scientists, sages and superhumans of both dimensions, the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe have collided with one another...and been destroyed! Now, all that exists in the vast empty cosmos is a single titanic patch...(展开全部)

The Marvel Universe is no more! The interdimensional Incursions have eliminated each and every alternate universe one by one. And now - despite the best eff orts of scientists, sages and superhumans - the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe have collided...and been destroyed! All that exists in the vast empty cosmos is a single, titanic patchwork planet made of the fragmented...(展开全部)

罗伯特·J·阿特（Robert J. Art），美国布兰代斯大学国际关系教授，哈佛大学博士，专长于国际关系、美国对外政策和国家安全政策研究。2006年荣获国际研究协会（International Studies Association）颁发的杰出学者奖。 罗伯特·杰维斯（Robert Jervis），美国著名国际政治学学者。加州大学伯利克分校政治学博士，先后在哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校执教。美国科学进步协会会员，美国艺术科学院院士，1988 —1989 年任美国政治学会副会长，2000 —2001年担任美国政治学会主席。 译者 陈积敏，男，中共中央党校国际战略研究所助理研究员、法学博士。著有《非法移民与美国国家战略》。 聂文娟，女，外交学院国际关系研究所讲师、法学博士。 张键，男，中国国际问题研究所亚太研究部助理研究员、法学博士。

罗伯特·J·阿特（Robert J. Art），美国布兰代斯大学国际关系教授，哈佛大学博士，专长于国际关系、美国对外政策和国家安全政策研究。2006年荣获国际研究协会（International Studies Association）颁发的杰出学者奖。 罗伯特·杰维斯（Robert Jervis），美国著名国际政治学学者。加州大学伯利克分校政治学博士，先后在哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校执教。美国科学进步协会会员，美国艺术科学院院士，1988 —1989 年任美国政治学会副会长，2000 —2001年担任美国政治学会主席。 译者 陈积敏，男，中共中央党校国际战略研究所助理研究员、法学博士。著有《非法移民与美国国家战略》。 聂文娟，女，外交学院国际关系研究所讲师、法学博士。 张键，男，中国国际问题研究所亚太研究部助理研究员、法学博士。

In this newly revised and updated edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and the Persian Gulf. Acclaimed as a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in the postwar era, Presidents' Secret Wars describes the secret warfare mounted by the president, the CIA, and the Pentagon_oper...(展开全部)

This study of perception and misperception in foreign policy was a landmark in the application of cognitive psychology to political decision making. The New York Times called it, in an article published nearly ten years after the book's appearance, "the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology." The perspective established by Jervis remains an important c...(展开全部)

Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. The post–World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologies have powerful healing effects when they are offered, and poisonous effects wh...(展开全部)