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Crisis Management in Complex Emergencies (POSC 360-61/IR 360-61)

Professor: Fr. John Sawicki

Welcome!

This research guide is designed especially to direct students in Fr. Sawicki's "Crisis Management in Complex Emergencies" course to resources to help you in doing your assignments for this class. This guide will link you to a wide assortment of resources at the Gumberg Library and beyond, including books (both print and electronic) and journal databases or articles. The guide also incorporates information on citation management in different formats, and on how to obtain materials not accessible at the Gumberg Library.

Use the tabs at the left of the screen to access the various sorts of information.

Required Reading

 

Graham Allison. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap? New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-0544935273. Paperback.

 

Baily, Riley and Frederick Kagan. A Defense of Taiwan with Ukrainian Characteristics: Lessons from the War in Ukraine for the Western Pacific. Washington, DC. Institute for the Study of War. 2024: 

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/defense-taiwan-ukrainian-characteristics-lessons-war-ukraine-western-pacific

 

Carter, Brian. Hamas' View of the October 7 War. Washington,, DC: Institute for the Study of War, 2024:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/hamas%E2%80%99-view-october-7-war

 

Carter, Brian. Israel's Victory in Lebanon. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of War, 2024:

https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/SSI-Media/Recent-Publications/Article/3961325/project-1704-a-us-army-war-college-analysis-of-russian-strategy-in-eastern-euro/

 

Chivvis, Christopher S, ed. US-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2024:

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/10/us-china-relations-for-the-2030s-toward-a-realistic-scenario-for-coexistence?lang=en

 

Haney, Patrick. Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises: Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making. University of Michigan Press; Reprint edition (April 2002) ISBN: 0472088742.

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/duquesne-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3414945

 

Holmes, James and Toshi Yoshihara. Red Star Over the Pacific. Second Edition. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013. ISBN-13: 9781682472187.

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=nlebk&AN=2665374&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s9004660

 

David Patrick Houghton. The Decision Point: Six Cases in US Foreign Policy Decision Making. New York Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0367437480.

 

Brendan Taylor. Dangerous Decade: Taiwan's Security and Crisis Management. New York: Routledge, for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2019. ISBN-13: 978-0367437480

Recommended Reading

 

Roy Godson and James J. Wirtz, eds. Strategic Denial and Deception. Transaction Publications (April 20002) ISBN: 0765808986.  At Gumberg Library, 2nd floor,  U167.5 .D37 S77 2002

 

Robert M. Clark and William L. Mitchell. Deception: Counter Deception and Counter Intelligence. Los Angeles: Sage, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1506375236.

 

Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow. Essence of a Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Pearson PTP; 2nd edition (January 1999) ISBN: 0321013492.  On Reserve in Gumberg Library