17 Top history books like Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) by Vipin Narang

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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

By: Vipin Narang

4.31

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. …

"The driver of deterrence success is not nuclear weapons, it is nuclear posture. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally."

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

"The driver of deterrence success is not nuclear weapons, it is nuclear posture. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally."

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

"The basic point is that nuclear postures matter to the pattern of conflict a state experiences. Not only do regional powers select different strategies and postures, but those choices have critical implications for their ability to deter armed attacks. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally."

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

"The basic point is that nuclear postures matter to the pattern of conflict a state experiences. Not only do regional powers select different strategies and postures, but those choices have critical implications for their ability to deter armed attacks. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally."

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

If you liked the history plot in Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) by Vipin Narang , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Stathis N. Kalyvas

1. The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

By: Stathis N. Kalyvas

4.21

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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2. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

By: Adam Tooze

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. A Separate Peace

By: John Knowles

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its … read more

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4. The Battle of Midway

By: Craig L. Symonds

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Arms and Influence

By: Thomas C. Schelling

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as t… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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6. How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II

By: Phillips Payson O'Brien

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly tho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Outliers: The Story of Success

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world o… read more

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  • nonfiction

8. Strategy in the Missile Age

By: Bernard Brodie

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

The description for this book, Strategy in the Missile Age, will be forthcoming. read more

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9. The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives … read more

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10. MacArthur's Airman: General George C.Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific

By: None

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

A fighter pilot who flew seventy-five combat missions in World War I, George C. Kenney was a charis… read more

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11. Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War

By: Robert A. Pape

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increa… read more

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12. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

13. Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency

By: Roger Trinquier

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Er… read more

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14. The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The U.s.: A Speculative Novel

By: Jeffrey Lewis

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

“A brilliantly conceived page-turner.”—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and  Command and … read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare

By: Seth G. Jones

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns tha… read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers

By: Andrew F. Krepinevich

4.23

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challeng… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (New Cold War History) by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

18. Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (New Cold War History)

By: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

4.17

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americani… read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Powerful And Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive

By: Stephen P. Randolph

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Stephen Randolph returns to an earlier conflict … read more

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  • history
Cover of NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999 by Dag Henriksen

20. NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999

By: Dag Henriksen

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and con… read more

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21. Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

By: Vipin Narang

4.31

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. … read more

Similar categories in Vipin Narang's Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) book and Vipin Narang's Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"The driver of deterrence success is not nuclear weapons, it is nuclear posture. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally."

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

"The basic point is that nuclear postures matter to the pattern of conflict a state experiences. Not only do regional powers select different strategies and postures, but those choices have critical i…"

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

"Nuclear posture is the incorporation of some number and type of nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles state's overall military structure, the rules and procedures governing how those weapons are dep…"

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

Cover of Revolution in the Revolution? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America by Régis Debray

22. Revolution in the Revolution? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America

By: Régis Debray

3.46

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Régis Debray studied at the École Normale Supérieure under Louis Althusser, becaming "agrégé de phi… read more

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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
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23. Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958

By: David Galula

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France was fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency by Walter C. Ladwig III

24. The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency

By: Walter C. Ladwig III

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide ai… read more

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25. Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

By: Stephen Peter Rosen

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • political science
"Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race. Those involved in decisions about new mi…"

-Stephen Peter Rosen, Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

Cover of Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists by Audrey Kurth Cronin

26. Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists

By: Audrey Kurth Cronin

3.77

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotic… read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) by Tami Davis Biddle

27. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

By: Tami Davis Biddle

3.82

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy by Jenifer Van Vleck

28. Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy

By: Jenifer Van Vleck

3.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspire… read more

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29. The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

By: Brad Roberts

4.12

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to … read more

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Cover of The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime by Oriana Skylar Mastro

30. The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime

By: Oriana Skylar Mastro

3.44

Format: None pages, ebook

"Explains the conditions under which leaders are willing to talk to their enemies during a war and … read more

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  • political science
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31. Economic Sanctions Reconsidered

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer

3.31

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

This is a revised edition of the classic book on this subject. It chronicles and examines 170 cases… read more

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  • politics
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12 best-selling politics books like Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) by Vipin Narang

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The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

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4.21

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4.20

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Thomas C. Schelling

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History of the Peloponnesian War

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Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War

James Kitfield

4.28

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3.36

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3.50

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