Browsing Furniss Book Award (Mershon Center) by Issue Date
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Who Fights for Reputation in International Politics? Leaders, Resolve and the Use of Force
Yarhi-Milo, Keren ( 2016-03-28 )Yarhi-Milo's book Knowing The Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence Organizations, and Assessments of Intentions in International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2014) explores how and why civilian leaders and intelligence ... -
The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Shapiro, Jacob ( 2015-10-13 )How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first ... -
Accepting the Unacceptable: West Germany's Changing Border Policy, 1945-1990
Atzili, Boaz ( 2014-10-06 )In this talk, Boaz Atzili seeks to bridge the gap in the literature by studying the case of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and its policy's coming to terms with its territorial losses post World War II. He concentrates ... -
Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
Rovner, Joshua ( 2013-11-08 )In Fixing the Facts, Joshua Rovner explores the complex interaction between intelligence and policy and shines a spotlight on the problem of politicization. Major episodes in the history of American foreign policy have ... -
Presidents, Kings, Dictators, & War: Leader Risk and International Politics
Horowitz, Michael ( 2013-09-18 )This talk attempts to bring leaders, the decision makers who start wars and make the peace, back into our core understanding of international politics. It challenges the assumption of traditional international relations ... -
Techno-Blinders: The U.S. Techno-Centric Strategic Culture
Stanley, Elizabeth ( 2012-09-13 )Elizabeth A. Stanley is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, with appointments in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government. She is also the founder of ... -
The Fuzzy Governance of Soft Hard Law and Hard Soft Law
Jojarth, Christine ( 2011-11-01 )The increasing prominence of unconventional, cross-border security threats posed by non-state actors is challenging traditional international diplomacy and its most cherished tool: international treaties. Policy-making ... -
Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment
Jenne, Erin ( 2009-05-04 )Erin K. Jenne is Associate Professor of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University in Budapest. She teaches on the subjects of nationalism and civil warfare, international relations, ... -
The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy
Hymans, Jacques ( 2008-02-25 )In this book, Hymans explores why few states have acquired nuclear weapons even though dozens have long been capable of doing so. He finds that the key to this surprising historical pattern lies not in externally imposed ... -
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
Hui, Victoria Tin-bor ( 2007-02-26 )Victoria Tin-bor Hui is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Notre Dame. She is author of "War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge, 2005), winner of the Mershon ... -
Mershon Center for International Security Studies Furniss Book Award
Becker, Cathy ( 2006 )Each year, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies gives the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award to an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security. ...