Thomas M. Nichols Books
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. A...
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The Russian Presidency
"Why has Russian democracy apparently survived and even strengthened under a presidential system when so many other presidential regimes have decayed into authoritarian rule? And what are the origi...
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The sacred cause
To the officers of the USSR Armed Forces, the defense of the Soviet Union was, in the words of a Soviet general, a "sacred cause." What was the nature of Soviet civil-military relations, and what h...
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Tactical nuclear weapons and NATO
By Douglas T. Stuart, Jeffrey D. McCausland, Thomas M. Nichols
"NATO has been a "nuclear" alliance since its inception. Nuclear weapons have served the dual purpose of being part of NATO military planning as well as being central to the Alliance's deterrence s...
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