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.

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Contending with Terrorism

Roots, Strategies, and Responses

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

ISBN: 9780262514644

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 9, 2010

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

Soviet Military Policy

An International Security Reader

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

ISBN: 9780262620666

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 11, 1989

Soviet military policy has been one of the most important and perplexing issues confronting the United States since 1945. Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy innovations have focused renewed attention...

Nuclear Diplomacy and Crisis Management

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

ISBN: 9780262620789

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 12, 1990

These essays from the journal International Security examine the effects of the nuclear revolution on the international system and the role nuclear threats have played in international crises. The authors...

Offense, Defense, and War

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

ISBN: 9780262523165

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 15, 2004

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

Primacy and Its Discontents

American Power and International Stability

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

Foreword by Graham Allison

ISBN: 9780262524551

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 30, 2009

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

America's Strategic Choices

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

ISBN: 9780262522748

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 18, 2000

Contending perspectives on the future of US grand strategy.

Debating the Democratic Peace

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

ISBN: 9780262522137

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 10, 1996

Are democracies less likely to go to war than other kinds of states? This question is of tremendous importance in both academic and policy-making circles and one that has been debated by political scientists...

New Global Dangers

Changing Dimensions of International Security

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

ISBN: 9780262524308

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 13, 2004

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