Military Prowess Doesn’t Guarantee Strategic Success; The Making of the MAGA New Right; New Labour, New Britain?
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Israeli soldiers in the Six-Day War, June 1967

How Israel Fights

And Why Military Prowess Doesn’t Guarantee Strategic Success

 By Shashank Joshi

 

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Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

This serious work of political theory introduces the people and ideas that have transformed American conservatism into increasingly radical populism.

Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews

 
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New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair Governments Reshaped the Country

O’Hara offers a balanced and meticulously researched reassessment of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s domestic legacy.

Reviewed by Andrew Moravcsik

 

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Two New Books Redefining Power in Our Fractured World

As geopolitical competition intensifies, discover the forces reshaping the global order. In Eclipsing the West, Vince Cable examines the Asian ‘superstates’ challenging Western dominance. In US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys explores how unpredictability has been used as a tool of American statecraft. Both provide a timely, incisive look at the dynamics driving the strategic landscape.

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Cover Images of “US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory” and “Eclipsing the West”

Two New Books Redefining Power in Our Fractured World

Cover Images of “US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory” and “Eclipsing the West”
Learn More

As geopolitical competition intensifies, discover the forces reshaping the global order. In Eclipsing the West, Vince Cable examines the Asian ‘superstates’ challenging Western dominance. In US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys explores how unpredictability has been used as a tool of American statecraft. Both provide a timely, incisive look at the dynamics driving the strategic landscape.

 

Why Nations Still Fight

In this capstone book, Lebow, a political scientist, builds on his earlier work, compiling data on all wars and interventions since 1945.

Reviewed by G. John Ikenberry