The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of war to the military. In this timely and controversial examination of civilian-military relations in wartime democracies, Eliot A. Cohen chips away at this...(展开全部)

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communic...(展开全部)

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communic...(展开全部)

This book studies the rulers of China - its top political leaders. It seeks to understand who they are, what the major criteria in elite recruitment are, how job assignment in high politics is determined, and how the Chinese leadership is stratified. Using a data set on top Chinese leaders in the reform era Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China shows that political de...(展开全部)

• Does leadership affect economic growth and development? • Is leadership an exogenous determinant or an endogenous outcome of growth and development processes? Can we differentiate between the two? • Do leaders’ decisions and actions vary in importance over various stages in the process, at least in successful cases? • How important is choosing the right economic model? • To w...(展开全部)

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Japan's attack on Shanghai in August...(展开全部)

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Japan's attack on Shanghai in August...(展开全部)

马克•费尔顿（Mark Felton），英国著名历史学家，剑桥安格利亚大学获历史学和英文学硕士，埃塞克斯大学获博士。现在上海大学任教。著有《柳浩太郎：德国和日本的水下秘密交易》《魔鬼实验室——记录日本731部队的罪恶行径》《午夜：二战中不为人知的伟大逃亡》《日本宪兵队秘史——亚洲战场上的谋杀、暴力和酷刑》等著作。《日本宪兵队秘史——亚洲战场上的谋杀、暴力和酷刑》曾入选日本具有影响力的英文报纸The Japan Times授予的2009年度最佳著作。

Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931-1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, "traitors to the Han Chinese"). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating the power struggle between Nationalists and Communists. Yun Xia examines the leaders ...(展开全部)