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International Security Readers

International Security Readers compile the best articles from International Security into volumes organized around a specific theme.

These anthologies make classic IS articles conveniently available for classroom use. They have been assigned in numerous university courses. The books are also popular with readers who may not have access to back issues of the journal. Many of the volumes also feature annotated bibliographies.

The editorial headquarters for the International Security Readers series is the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Do Democracies Win Their Wars?

An International Security Reader
Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Important contributions from both sides of the debate over the relationship between democracy and military victory.

Contending with Terrorism

Roots, Strategies, and Responses
Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Experts explore the sources of contemporary terrorism, what terrorists want, and how the United States and other countries should respond.

Going Nuclear

Nuclear Proliferation and International Security in the 21st Century
Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

These essays offer conceptual, historical, and analytical perspectives on one of the most significant challenges to global security in the twenty-first century: controlling nuclear proliferation.

Primacy and Its Discontents

American Power and International Stability
Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Experts consider whether American primacy will endure or if the future holds a multipolar world of several great powers.

Offense, Defense, and War

Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

An overview of offense-defense theory, which argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics.

New Global Dangers

Changing Dimensions of International Security
Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

An analysis of new global security concerns in the post-September 11 world, including weapons of mass destruction, nonmilitary dangers, and transnational actors.

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Revised Edition

Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Understanding the roots and causes of ethnic animosity; analyses of recent events in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, and the former Soviet Union.

America's Strategic Choices, Revised Edition

Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Contending perspectives on the future of US grand strategy.

Rational Choice and Security Studies

Stephen Walt and His Critics
Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Opposing views on the merits of formal rational choice approaches as they have been applied to international security studies.

Theories of War and Peace

Edited by Michael E. Brown

New approaches to understanding war and peace in the changing international system.

East Asian Security

Edited by Michael E. Brown

The implications of the rapid growth of East Asian countries in the post-Cold War world.

Global Dangers

Changing Dimensions of International Security
Edited by Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Perils of Anarchy

Contemporary Realism and International Security
Edited by Michael E. Brown, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

America's Strategy in a Changing World

Edited by Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Up-to-date and comprehensive analyses of American national security strategy in the post-Cold War world.

Nuclear Diplomacy and Crisis Management

Edited by Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller and Stephen Van Evera

Soviet Military Policy

An International Security Reader
Edited by Sean M. Lynn-Jones

The Cold War and After, Expanded Edition

Prospects for Peace
Edited by Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

A collection of well-reasoned arguments on the causes of the Cold War and the effect of its aftermath on the peaceful coexistence of European states.

The Rise of China

Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller

Analysts debate the international implications of a newly powerful China.