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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE-Signifcantly reduced list price Influence without Boots on the Ground: Seaborne Crisis Response, by Dr. Larissa Forster of the University of Zurich, is the 39th monograph in the Naval War College's Newport Paper series. It is an empirical analysis of crisis characteristics, actors, U.S. involvement, and outcomes, exploring the political use of naval forces during foreign-policy crises short of full-scale warfare. Dr. Forster uses a statistical model to analyze naval crisis data in ways useful to policy makers and strategists-outlining the unique characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of naval forces and summarizing theoretical literature on naval diplomacy and coercion, as well as earlier quantitative research.

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About the Author Dr. Forster is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ARTIS Research and Risk Modeling. From October 2010 to August 2011 she was a Visiting Research Scholar, Strategic Research Department at the Naval War College. She has also been Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of International Relations at Boston University (August 2009-August 2010) and the Department of Government and International Relations at Clark University (May 2008-August 2009). She earned a doctoral degree in political science at the University of Zurich in 2010. She is the author or coauthor of a number of articles and reviews; a book, entitled A Global Force for Good: The U.S. Navy's Role in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, with Professor Albert Shimkus, is forthcoming.

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