Böcker av Michael J. Mazarr

This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national security realm. The most elaborate and complex risk procedures could not cure skewed incentives, cognitive biases, groupthink, and a dozen other human factors that led companies to take excessive risk.

In this provocative text examining radical Islamists, the author looks at formerly held views on the 'enemy' in the war on terror, and suggests new ways of looking at the extremists in comparison to revolutionaries from such countries as Russia, Germany, and other well known radicals.

The dramatic insider account of why we made the decision to invade Iraq, the motivations of the key people who drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed to stop it, leading to the most costly misadventure in US history.

This unique collection of essays explores the intricacies of how the Internet has changed the way we currently approach international security, civil society, and economic development. One essay explores how wiring Russia's nuclear scientists into the Internet increases the threat of weapons proliferation.

North Korea and the Bomb offers the first in-depth history of the biggest diplomatic challenge in the post-Cold War era - the North Korean nuclear programme and the US and allied efforts to stop it.

Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World sets out to examine one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century: the future of nuclear weapons.