Ron Krebs
Books
In War's Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy. Edited with Elizabeth Kier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt.
Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy Toward Eastern Europe Under Eisenhower. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001. Series: Foreign Relations and the Presidency, No. 7, edited by H.W. Brands.
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Articles in Refereed Journals
“A School for the Nation? How Military Service Does Not Build Nations, and How It Might.” International Security 28:4 (spring 2004): 85-124. {summarized and reviewed in “Military Myths,” The Wilson Quarterly 28:4 (autumn 2004): 93-94.}
“Fuelling Aegean Fires: A Cautionary Tale for NATO Enlargement?” The Harriman Review 11:1-2 (1998): 12-20.
Articles in Non-Refereed Outlets
“Israel’s Occupational Burdens.” International Herald Tribune, 25 October 2011.
“ ‘War on Terror’ Finally Over.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11 September 2011.
“You’ve Won the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m So Sorry.” Washington Post, 10 October 2010.
"Winning the Prize, Losing the Peace." Washington Post, 11 October 2009.
"Dangerous Prize." Foreign Policy (web exclusive), posted 30 July 2009, re-posted 9 October 2009.
“It's Time To Get Out of Iraq,” Chicago Tribune , 3 January 2005 . With David M. Edelstein.
Essays in Edited Volumes
“International Conflict and the Constitutional Balance: Executive Authority After War.” In Elizabeth Kier and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy, 187-210. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“Introduction: War and Democracy in Comparative Perspective.” With Elizabeth Kier. In Elizabeth Kier and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy, 1-20. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“Living in Alternate Universes: Divergent Narratives and the Challenge of US-Russian Relations Since the Cold War.” ITimothy Colton, Tim Frye, and Robert Legvold, eds., The Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy Toward Russia, 20-36. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2010.
“The Enduring Citizen-Soldier Tradition in the United States.” In Stuart A. Cohen, ed., The New Citizen Armies: Israel’s Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective, 7-31. Oxford: Routledge, 2010.
Book Reviews
Review of João Resende-Santos, Neorealism, States, and the Modern Mass Army (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). In Perspectives on Politics 6:3 (September 2008): 647-648.
Review of Karl P. Mueller, et al., Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy (Santa Monica : RAND, 2006). In Political Science Quarterly 122:4 (winter 2007-2008): 666-667.
Review of Herfried Münkler, The New Wars (Oxford: Polity Press, 2005). In Constellations 13:1 (spring 2006): 125-127
Review of Stanley Hoffmann with Frédéric Bozo, Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). In Political Science Quarterly 120:3 (fall 2005): 509-510.
Review of Rebecca B. Kook, The Logic of Democratic Exclusion: African Americans in the United States and Palestinian Citizens in Israel (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). In Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 38:2 (winter 2004-2005): 274-275.
Review of Patricia A. Weitsman, Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004). In International Studies Review 6:3 (September 2004): 496-498.
Review of Laila Parsons, The Druze Between Palestine and Israel , 1947-49 ( New York: St. Martin 's Press, 2000) . In Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35:1 (summer 2001): 108.
Other Publications
“Cuban Missile Crisis.” In Peter Karsten, ed., Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005).
“Racial Integration in the U.S. Armed Forces.” In Peter Karsten, ed., Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005).
“Liberals and Nukes,” The New Republic , 14 & 21 September 1998, 8.
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