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Book Cover for: Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare, Jacqueline L. Hazelton

Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare

Jacqueline L. Hazelton
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

Congratulations to @DrJLHazelton on winning @APSAtweets's Foreign Policy Section's Best Book for 2021–2022! Check out "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare," published by @CornellPress.

Hardcover, 2021

$45.95Member price:$45.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: After the Shooting Stopped, Susan Pettiss

After the Shooting Stopped

Susan Pettiss
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

@NathanielLMoir recently published a chapter entitled "After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg" in the set of essays "Reporting World War II," edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer. Read his chapter: https://t.co/SCAtGpjamq

Paperback, 2004

$22.00Member price:$20.90 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting for, Susan Rice

Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting for

Susan Rice
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

TODAY: Senior Fellow @AmbassadorRice will discuss her new book, "Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For," at First Parish Church in Cambridge: https://t.co/q7i8hcagBY

Paperback, 2020

$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age, Lori Garver

Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

Lori Garver
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

In her new book, Escaping Gravity, former NASA official Lori Garver, a Belfer Center Senior Fellow, offers a front-row seat to the transformation of the space agency. https://t.co/esURJDK8eh

Hardcover, 2022

$28.99Member price:$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China, Kevin Rudd

The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China

Kevin Rudd
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

In a recent episode of @ForeignAffairs' podcast “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Senior Fellow @MrKRudd discussed his new book "The Avoidable War," in which he argues that conflict between the US & China doesn't have to be inevitable. Listen now: https://t.co/yTUgHebCIe

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Korea: A New History of South and North, Victor Cha

Korea: A New History of South and North

Victor Cha
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

Join the Korea Project on 3/1 for "The Case for Collective Resilience in Addressing Chinese Economic Coercion," a discussion with Victor Cha of @CSIS. RSVP: https://t.co/kmfk9iX5kn

Paperback, 2024

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: World War II, G. Kurt Piehler

World War II

G. Kurt Piehler
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

@NathanielLMoir recently published a chapter entitled "After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg" in the set of essays "Reporting World War II," edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer. Read his chapter: https://t.co/SCAtGpjamq

Hardcover, 2007

$79.00Member price:$79.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back, Bruce Schneier

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back

Bruce Schneier
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

🔹FEATURE: A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back In his new book, @schneierblog takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze systems critical to society.  https://t.co/Dzn4nieNlD

Paperback, 2024

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), James K. Jackson

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

James K. Jackson
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

Yesterday, Paul Rosen (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Investment Security) joined @juliettekayyem in a discussion focusing on the evolution of economic tools to protect national security, specifically the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). https://t.co/6cCsagXgr5

Paperback, 2016

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine, Mariana Budjeryn

Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine

Mariana Budjeryn
Belfer CenterBelfer Center

@mbudjeryn joined @WashTimes' podcast "History as it Happens" to discuss the momentous events and decisions that resulted in Ukraine deciding to denuclearize in the early 1990s. And see her new book “Inheriting the Bomb." https://t.co/wqBuRh15JF

Paperback, 2022

$34.95Member price:$34.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)