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Deadly Transfers and the Global Playground: Transnational Security Threats in a Disorderly World
by Robert Mandel. 139 pgs.

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Mandel's comprehensive study provides an integrated, explanatory analysis of the new global security environment, which he terms "the global playground," and the consequent blossoming of ominous flows or "deadly transfers." It includes the behavior of rogue states, terrorist groups, transnational criminal organizations, and deviant individuals. Mandel begins with a discussion of the general nature of the emerging global situation and the transborder activities that occur within it, then turns to an overarching analysis of the intractable causes, pernicious consequences, and futile cures associated with these ominous transnational flows. Such activities include clandestine conventional arms, illegal human migration, illicit drugs, hazardous materials, lethal diseases, and information disruption. Both national and international organizations are fundamentally weak when it comes to dealing with such transfers.

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter: The Emerging Global Playground

Chapter 2: The Spread of Deadly Transfers

Chapter 3: Intractable Causes, Pernicious Consequences, and Futile Cures

Chapter 4: Clandestine Arms Flows

Chapter 5: Illegal Migrant Flows

Chapter 6: Illicit Drug Flows

Chapter 7: Hazardous Materials Flows

Chapter 8: Infectious Disease Flows

Chapter 9: Information Disruption Flows

Chapter 10: National Hypocrisy and Deadly Transfers

Chapter 11: Crippled International Rules of the Game and the Global Playground

Chapter 12: Security Implications- Turning a Playground into a Civil Community

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Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation: Theory, Research, and Practice
by Randall G. Rogan, Mitchell R. Hammer, Clinton R. Van Zandt. 184 pgs.

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This edited collection offers a comprehensive examination of theory, research, and practice in crisis (hostage) negotiation from the perspectives of communication, law enforcement, psychology, sociology, and criminology. The volume identifies promising conceptual frameworks for the development of research on crisis negotiation. This book is also useful to crisis negotiation trainers and leaders in law enforcement who are searching for insight beyond anecdotal stories and who recognize the need for more rigorous application of behavioral science to the practice of crisis negotiation.

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1: Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation: An Overview

2: Negotiation Models in Crisis Situations: The Value of a Communication-Based Approach

3: Emotion and Emotional Expression In Crisis Negotiation

4: Postincident Crisis Counseling For Hostage Negotiators

5: A Three-Dimensional Model of Relationship Development in Hostage Negotiations

6: Processes and Patterns in Hostage Negotiations

7: Models for Managing Hostage Negotiations: Pathways or Straitjackets?

8: Negotiating Across the Cultural Divide: Intercultural Dynamics in Crisis Incidents

9: Psychological and Cultural Dimensions of Hostage Negotiation

10: Communicating with Cults

11: Negotiating with Cults: A Practitioner's Perspective

12: Training Crisis Negotiators

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Flirting with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations
by Saundra K. Schneider. 189 pgs.

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Part One: Analytical and Theoretical Frameworks

1: The Varied Success of the Governmental Response to Natural Disasters

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2: Natural Disasters as Public Policy Issues

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3: The Governmental Response System

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4: Human Behavior and Governmental Activity in Disasters: Two Sets of Norms

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5: The Gap Between Bureaucratic and Emergent Norms

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Part Two: Case Studies of Natural Disasters

6: A General Framework for Examining the Success or Failure of the Governmental Response to Natural Disasters

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7: Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean Islands

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8: Hurricane Andrew in South Florida

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9: South Carolina's Experience with Hurricane Hugo

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10: The Loma Prieta Earthquake in California

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11: Hurricane Hugo in North Carolina

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12: Hurricane Andrew in Louisiana

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13: "Normal" Disasters: 1990 Floods in South Carolina

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Part Three: Summary, Implications, and Conclusions

14: The Paradox of Governmental Performance

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15: Considering Recommendations for Change

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Crises and Crisis Management: Toward Comprehensive Government Decision Making, in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
by Uriel Rosenthal, Alexander Kouzmin. 28 pgs.

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A Contemporary Crisis: Political Hostage-Taking and the Experience of Western Europe
by Clive C. Aston. 226 pgs.

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Part 1: Background

1: Introduction

2: The Experience of Western Europe

Part II: Portents for Governments

3: Political Hostage-Taking as a New Form of Crisis

Part III: The Siege of the Munich Olympics, 1972

4: Pre-Incident Flow of Relations

5: The Initial Phase

6: The Negotiation Phase

7: The Termination of the Incident Phase

8: The Termination of the Disruption Phase

Part IV: Restrictions on Response

9: A Typology of Crisis Management

Appendix I: A Chronology of Political Hostage Incidents in Western Europe, 1970-1980

Appendix II: List of Conventions and Agreements in Force for the Countries of Western Europe

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Military Crisis Management: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965
by Herbert G. Schoonmaker. 160 pgs.

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This account of the 1965 Dominican intervention is a case study in U.S. crisis management. Schoonmaker analyzes the role and management of U.S. military forces in the Dominican crisis. Like other Cold War interventions, the Dominican intervention demonstrated the use of rapidly reacting, joint military forces to achieve limited political objectives. It also represents a good vehicle for analyzing U.S. civilian-military relationships during this kind of military operation. While civil strife continued in Santo Domingo, U.S. military forces engaged in a variety of duties, both combat and peacekeeping.

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Preface

1: Introduction

2: Revolt and Response (24-27 April)

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3: Decisions and Initial Operations (28-29 April)

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4: Crisis Management

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6: Military and Diplomatic Coordination (30 April-5 May)

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7: Support Operations

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8: Peace Force and Political Settlement (may 1965-Sept. 1966)

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9: Conclusions

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Avoiding War: Problems of Crisis Management
by Alexander L. George. 590 pgs.

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Part One: Framework of the Study

Chapter 1: Is Research on Crisis Management Needed?

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Chapter 2: Plan of the Study

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Chapter 3: The Tension Between "Military Logic" and Requirements of Diplomacy in Crisis Management

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Chapter 4: A Provisional Theory of Crisis Management

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Part Two: Inadvertent Wars

Introduction to Part Two

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Chapter 5: The Crimean War

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Chapter 6: The Role of Crisis Mismanagement in the Outbreak of World War I

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Chapter 7: The U.S.-China War in Korea

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Chapter 8: The Arab-Israeli War of 1967: Inadvertent War Through Miscalculated Escalation

Chapter 9: The Suez War of 1956: Communication in Crisis Management

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Part Three: Crisis Management Without War

Introduction to Part Three

Chapter 10: The Berlin Blockade Crisis of 1948-1949

Bibliographic Note

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Chapter 11: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Bibliographical Note

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Chapter 12: The Sino-Soviet Border Crisis of 1969

Bibliographical Note

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Part Four: Superpower Involvement in Middle East Conflicts

Introduction to Part Four

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Chapter 13: The Arab-Israeli War of 1967

Bibliographical Note

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Chapter 14: The War of Attrition, 1969-1970

Bibliographical Note

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Chapter 15: The Arab-Israeli War of October 1973

Bibliographical Note

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Part Five: Factors Influencing Crisis Management

Introduction to Part Five

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Chapter 16: Strategies for Crisis Management

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Chapter 17: The Role of Intelligence in Crisis Management

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Chapter 18: Crisis Bargaining Codes and Crisis Management

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Chapter 19: Rules of Engagement

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Chapter 20: The Impact of Crisis-Induced Stress on Policy Makers

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Part Six: Prospects: New Challenges, New Opportunities

Introduction to Part Six

Chapter 21: Crisis Management in Europe: Old Mechanisms and New Problems

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Chapter 22: The Future of "Military Diplomacy" in U.S.-Soviet Relations

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Part Seven: Findings and Recommendations

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Epilogue: The Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991

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About the Editor and Contributors

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The Superpowers and the Syrian-Israeli Conflict: Beyond Crisis Management?
by Helena Cobban, Robert G. Neumann. 186 pgs.

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"The Middle Eastern problem is suffused with emotion and ignorance. It is both good and important to have Cobban's perceptive and cool dissection of a truly complex issue." Zbigniew Brezezinski Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies Former National Security Adviser "Middle East analyst Cobban's 'historical case study of how things were in the Israel-Syria theater during the years 1978-1989' was largely completed before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, but the events of the past year make this book more, rather than less, relevant. . . . Cobban's focus, then, on these two heavily armed nations and their superpower relationships could hardly be more timely." Booklist

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Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgments

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Summary

1: The Context of the Syrian-Israeli Conflict, 1978-1989

2: Developments in the Conflict

3: The U.S.-Israeli Relationship the Shift from the Moral to the Strategic Relationship

Conclusion: U.S. Policy-Making

4: The Soviet-Syrian Relationship

Conclusion: Soviet Policy-Making

5: Beyond Crisis Management?

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THE WASHINGTON PAPERS
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The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric
by Amos Kiewe. 246 pgs.

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This volume examines how presidents from Truman to Bush rhetorically approached and managed political, military, judicial, legislative, and economic crises during their presidencies. Editor Amos Kiewe brings together new essays by communications scholars who look at rhetoric initiated during national crises, examining especially the development of rhetoric at the onset of crises, changes in presidential rhetoric, and situational crisis constraints on rhetoric. Their studies suggest similarities in rhetoric in different types of crises, and yield resources for postulating patterns of crisis rhetoric.

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Introduction

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Chapter One: Declaring a National Emergency: Truman's Rhetorical Crisis and the Great Debate of 1951

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Chapter Two: Eisenhower, Little Rock, and the Rhetoric of Crisis

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Chapter Three: Crisis as Pretext: John F. Kennedy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Berlin Crisis

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Chapter Four: Lyndon B. Johnson's Crisis Rhetoric After the Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Securing Legitimacy and Leadership

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Chapter Five: Richard Nixon and the Personalization of Crisis

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Chapter Six: The Coalitional Crisis of the Ford Presidency: the Pardons Reconsidered

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Chapter Seven: Narrative Character in Presidential Crisis Rhetoric: Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis

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Chapter Eight: Creating His Own Constraint: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Crisis

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Chapter Nine: From a Rhetorical Trap to Capitulation and Obviation: the Crisis Rhetoric of George Bush's "Read My Lips: No New Taxes"

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Chapter Ten: The Battle for the Past: George Bush and the Gulf Crisis

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Presidential Crisis Rhetoric and the Press in the Post-Cold War World
by Jim A. Kuypers. 250 pgs.

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Kuypers combines rhetorical theory and framing analysis in an examination of the interaction of the press and the president during international crisis situations in the post-Cold War world. Three crises are examined: Bosnia, Haiti, and the North Korean nuclear capability issue. Kuypers effectively demonstrates the changed nature of presidential crisis rhetoric since the end of the Cold War.

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Series Foreword

Notes

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

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Chapter 2 Presidential Crisis Rhetoric: Review and Extensions

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Chapter 3 Agenda-Setting, Agenda-Extension, And Framing Analysis

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Chapter 4 North Korea and Nuclear Nonproliferation

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Chapter 5 The Bosnian Crisis: 21 November 1995 To 15 December 1995

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Chapter 6 The Haitian Crisis: From Bush to Clinton

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Chapter 7 The Haitian Crisis, Part Two: From Initial Success Erupts Crisis

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Chapter 8 Conclusion

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International Crisis Management: The Approach of European States
by Marc Houben. 315 pgs.

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Offers a comparative analysis of the preconditions & constriants nine European states place on their participation in international crisis management operations & the important consequences of such decisions, & offers a theoretical framework to help explain this complex decision-making process.

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Declaring War

Part I: Problem Definition and Framework of Analysis

1: Introduction and Plan of the Book

2: Elements of Change

3: Three Propositions

4: Changing the Rules

5: The Imperative of Consensus

6: The Dominant Government

7: The Dominant Parliament

Part III: Comparative Analysis and Conclusions

8: National Preconditions and Multinational Action

9: The Relation Between Government and Parliament

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