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Linking Disorders to Delinquency: Treating High-Risk Youth in the Juvenile Justice SystemChristopher A. Mallett Christopher Mallett explores developmental pathways to juvenile delinquency, disentangling key risk factors for offending—and not least, showing how contact with the justice system may only compound the problem.
Tracing a child's life from the earliest years through adolescence, Mallett investigates the processes by which mental health disorders, More > | ![]() |
The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st CenturyDavid M. Malone, editor The nature and scope of UN Security Council decisions—significantly changed in the post-Cold War era—have enormous implications for the conduct of foreign policy. The United Nations Security Council offers a comprehensive view of the council both internally and as a key player in world politics.
Focusing on the evolution of the council's treatment of key issues, the authors More > | ![]() |
Making Police Reform Matter in Latin AmericaMary Fran T. Malone, Lucía Dammert, and Orlando J. Pérez Police forces in Latin America historically have been regarded as hopelessly corrupt, inefficient, and even abusive. More recently, however, there have been clear signs that police reforms have gained traction in the region—with some notable exceptions. The authors of this book explore the scope of the reforms that have been enacted in a diverse group of countries, their impact on More > | ![]() |
Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International PerspectivesDavid M. Malone and Yuen Foong Khong, editors Choice Outstanding Academic Book!
From the war on terrorism to global warming, from national missile defense to unilateral sanctions, the U.S. has been taken to task for coming on too strong—or for doing too little. This important new book explores international reactions to U.S. conduct in world affairs
Authors from around the world address the tensions between unilateralism and More > | ![]() |
The UN Security Council in the 21st CenturySebastian von Einsiedel, David M. Malone, and Bruno Stagno Ugarte, editors Winner of the Friends of ACUNS Book Award!
After grappling for more than two decades with the realities of the post–Cold War era, the UN Security Council must now meet the challenges of a resurgence of great power rivalry. Reflecting this new environment, The UN Security Council in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive view of the council's internal dynamics, its role and More > | ![]() |
Pentecostal Charismatic Women: Constructions of Femininity in Alexandra TownshipTumi Mampane Drawing on her own experiences, Tumi Mampane provides deep insights into the daily lives of women in a South African Pentecostal community. Equally, she relates those insights to Black/African feminist and womanist theory. Her autoethnographic study exposes the complexities and contestations that exist not only in Charismatic discourses, but also in the relationships that the community's women More > | ![]() |
MDS-3: Managing Access to Medicines and Health TechnologiesManagement Sciences for Health, Inc. For some three decades, Managing Drug Supply (MDS) has been the leading reference on how to manage essential medicines in developing countries. Now, reflecting some 15 years of dramatic changes in politics and public health priorities, advances in science and medicine, and the advent of information technology, this new edition covers the full range of issues that are important to today's More > | ![]() |
AI and Early Warning Systems: Technology Innovation for National SecurityRobert Mandel From the September 11 attacks to the coronavirus pandemic, recent deficiencies in early warning systems have been jolting, reflecting startling failures of intelligence and security decisionmaking. Can technological innovation remedy the flaws in threat detection? If so, how? Robert Mandel argues that the answer lies in a hybrid system—"human-in-the-loop" artificial More > | ![]() |
Security, Strategy and the Quest for Bloodless WarRobert Mandel In recent decades, government and military officials alike have pushed increasingly in the direction of "bloodless wars," where confrontations are undertaken—and ultimately won—with minimum loss of human life. Robert Mandel provides the first comprehensive analysis of this trend.
After exploring the moral, legal, military, and political bases of the desire to More > | ![]() |
Armies Without States: The Privatization of SecurityRobert Mandel What does the increasing use of private security forces mean for governments? For individuals? Armies Without States offers a comprehensive analysis of the varieties, causes, and consequences of this growing phenomenon.
Ranging from the international to the subnational level and from the use of mercenaries by private parties to the government outsourcing of military operations, Mandel More > |