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Understanding Security Practices in South Asia: Securitization Theory and the Role of Non-State Actors by Monika Barthwal-Datta 9780415741071
RRP: $56.75$49.59This book explores the ways in which non-state actors (NSAs) in South Asia are involved in securitizing non-traditional security challenges in the region at the sub-state level. South Asia is the epicentre of some of the most significant international... -
China's Strategic Competition with the United States by Russell Ong 9780415725941
RRP: $29.66$26.01This book examines the transformation and the multifaceted nature of the relationship between US and China in the post-Cold War era. It examines their nature and implications of their strategic competition in military, political and economic terms, as... -
Nuclear Energy and Global Governance: Ensuring Safety, Security and Non-proliferation by Trevor Findlay 9780415532488
RRP: $69.65$60.46The book considers the implications of the nuclear energy revival for global governance in the areas of safety, security and non-proliferation. Increased global warming, the energy demands of China, India and other emerging economic powerhouses and... -
Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? by Jamal Malik 9780415544801
RRP: $56.75$49.59After 9/11, madrasas have been linked to international terrorism. They are suspected to foster anti-western, traditionalist or even fundamentalist views and to train al-Qaeda fighters. This has led to misconceptions on madrasa-education in general and... -
Political Economy of Statebuilding: Power after peace Mats Berdal (King's College London, UK) 9780415521574
RRP: $64.49$56.63This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of post-conflict countries over the past 20 years. While statebuilding today is typically discussed in the context of 'peacebuilding' and... -
Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace Andrew Finlay (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 9780415510110
RRP: $56.75$49.59This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices.The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than... -
Deradicalising Violent Extremists: Counter-Radicalisation and Deradicalisation Programmes and their Impact in Muslim Majority States by Hamed El-Said 9780415525190
RRP: $174.15$151.29Terrorism remains one of the major threats facing the world community. While literature on the subject is dominated by discussion of the factors leading individuals and groups to join violent extremist, terrorist groups, the question of what can lead... -
Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective Colin J Bennett 9780415465649
RRP: $64.49$56.12National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the... -
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder Moshe Gammer 9780415596183
RRP: $56.75$49.59With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world's attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and... -
Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan: In a Time of Western Intervention by Ben Walter 9780367876616
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan. It engages with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making contexts regarding the utility of human security as a... -
Japan s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships by Gauri Khandekar 9780367874001
RRP: $51.59$45.23As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves, internally, adapting Japan's constitutional position on defence... -
Iran At The Crossroads: Global Relations In A Turbulent Decade by Miron Rezun 9780367163389
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book concerns more with Iran's foreign relations and problems in the area of international affairs in light of the Gulf war and in anticipation of the post-Khomeini period. It also deals with Iranian policies toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli... -
Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars: External Assistance and Belligerents' Choice of Strategy by Adam Lockyer 9780367787196
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the impact of foreign intervention in the course and nature of warfare in civil wars. Throughout history, foreign intervention in civil wars has been the rule rather than the exception. The involvement of outside powers can have a... -
Gender and Drone Warfare: A Hauntological Perspective by Lindsay C. Clark 9780367786052
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book investigates how drone warfare is deeply gendered and how this can be explored through the methodological framework of 'Haunting'.Utilising original interview data from British Reaper drone crews, the book analyses the way killing by drones... -
India's National Security: Annual Review 2016-17 by Satish Kumar 9780367735517
RRP: $51.59$45.23The global security environment in the last five years has been characterised by a state of 'no war, no peace' among major powers, resulting in a state of uncertainty about their national security objectives. For instance, the US has been concerned about... -
Cultural Resistance and Security from Below: Power and Escape through Capoeira by Zoe Marriage 9780367727512
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural... -
Partition and Peace in Civil Wars: Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict by Carter R. Johnson 9780367673789
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book examines whether partition is an effective means to resolve ethnic civil wars. It argues that partition is unlikely to end ongoing ethnosectarian civil wars, but it can increase the likelihood of preventing civil war recurrence, as long as... -
The Gender and Security Agenda: Strategies for the 21st Century by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat 9780367466510
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of national and international security challenges. The volume examines gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and human security sub-fields: armed conflict; post-conflict;... -
Civil-Military Relations in International Interventions: A New Analytical Framework by Karsten Friis 9780367356613
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions. While it is frequently claimed that success in international interventions hinges largely on... -
India's Nuclear Proliferation Policy: The Impact of Secrecy on Decision Making, 1980-2010 by Gaurav Kampani 9780367356286
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book examines India's nuclear program, and it shows how secrecy inhibits learning in states and corrodes the capacity of decision-makers to generate optimal policy choices. Focusing on clandestine Indian nuclear proliferation during 1980-2010, the... -
New Media Political Engagement And Participation in Malaysia by Sara Chinnasamy 9780367272975
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book analyses the exponential growth of independent news portal (INPs) in Malaysia and discusses the extent of impacts generated from these portals in Malaysian electoral conduct especially during Malaysia's 12th and 13th general elections. The... -
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: A Future Agenda by Cecilia Jacob 9780367265533
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyzes case studies regarding the implementation of this important global norm. The volume analyzes this process at international, regional and local levels, and... -
Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon by Manu Lekunze 9780367221355
RRP: $174.15$151.29Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon comprehensively maps and analyses Cameroon's security architecture to determine its resilience. The author examines the key actors involved in Cameroon's security and evaluates the... -
Global Security Watch-India by Amit Gupta 9780313395864
$50.94This new volume in the Global Security Watch series examines the contemporary foreign, military, and security policies of India as it moves towards becoming a formidable global power in the coming decades. India is poised to join the major nations of... -
Global Security Watch-The Maghreb: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia by Yahia H. Zoubir 9780313393778
$70.77An unprecedented analysis of how the liberation from colonial rule has threatened the Maghreb region of Africa and created political and social challenges that puts global security at risk. Northwestern Africa, known as the Maghreb, consists of Algeria,... -
Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues by Elizabeth L. Chalecki 9780313391514
RRP: $63.21$59.21This timely volume presents the key concepts, issues, and debates surrounding environmental security, illustrating through a range of examples and cases how global environmental matters and international security are closely linked. Issues of climate... -
Global Security Watch-China by Richard Weitz 9780313384820
$70.77This book presents a comprehensive overview of China's main foreign and defense policies, providing students, policy makers, and general readers with an up-to-date assessment of this most important country. Global Security Watch-China presents a... -
Global Security Watch-Jordan by W. Andrew Terrill 9780313366192
$67.94This insightful study explores how a small state with limited economic resources has played an important role in vital, ongoing Middle Eastern political and security controversies. Global Security Watch-Jordan provides readers with an expert,... -
Energy Security Challenges for the 21st Century: A Reference Handbook by Gal Luft 9780275999971
$83.62The impact of energy on global security and economy is clear and profound, and this is why in recent years energy security has become a source of concern to most countries. However, energy security means different things to different countries based on... -
From Vietnam to 9/11: On the Front Lines of National Security, with a New Epilogue on the Iraq War by John P. Murtha 9780271029283
RRP: $39.93$35.28In 1974, John P. "Jack" Murtha became the first Vietnam combat veteran elected to Congress. In the nearly three decades since then, Congressman Murtha has been intimately involved with governmental decisions about America's national security... -
Human Rights Prosecutions in Democracies at War by Moira Lynch 9783319969077
RRP: $77.39$24.78Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions. What conditions prompt this outcome and... -
North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century:: Security and Sovereignty in an Uncertain World by Christian Leuprecht 9783319909776
RRP: $128.99$40.71The protection of the homeland is the top priority for U.S. national security strategy. Strategic defense, however, has been an overlooked dimension in the vast literature on the U.S. strategic posture, with even less attention given to the necessity and... -
Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century by Christian Koch 9781860643163
$114.09Concentrating on the security of the Gulf in the 21st century, this text explores the most pressing issues, including military threats to the region, obstacles to economic development and socio-economic harmonization, and challenges to political... -
The Gulf: Future Security and British Policy by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research 9781850433828
$32.44Defence policy-makers from Britain and the Gulf here analyze different aspects of British policy and its repercussions for Gulf security. Seeking to nurture defence and security dialogue, contributors examine both immediate and potential threats to Gulf... -
Surveillance, Closed Circuit Television and Social Control Clive Norris 9781840141269
RRP: $174.15$151.29The rise of CCTV camera surveillance in Britain has been dramatic. Practically every major city now boasts a CCTV system aimed at, among other things, preventing, detecting and reducing the fear of crime. Increasingly these developments are mirrored... -
The European Union: Facing the Challenge of Multiple Security Threats by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt 9781788111041
$136.24Security in the European Union (EU) is an increasingly complex problem, with the spectre of disintegration looming over the Eurozone, and the threat of terrorism, insecurity and the long-term sustainability of food supply and fresh water reaching levels... -
Benefit-Cost Analyses for Security Policies: Does Increased Safety Have to Reduce Efficiency? by Carol Mansfield 9781784711078
$143.20The opening of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in 2014 marks a new era of reflection toward enhancing homeland security regulation in the United States. In the context of this new era, it is necessary to consider how policy intended to... -
China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems by James M. Smith 9781647120788
RRP: $114.81$101.28A critical look at how China's growing strategic arsenal could impact a rapidly changing world order China's strategic capabilities and doctrine have historically differed from the United States' and Russia's. China has continued to modernize and expand... -
Other People's Wars: The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts by Brent L. Sterling 9781647120597
RRP: $123.84$109.61Other People's Wars explores key US efforts involving direct observation missions and post-conflict investigations throughout its history. Sterling shows how initiatives to learn from other nations' wars can yield significant benefits, emphasisizing... -
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military: An International Comparison by Robert Egnell 9781626166257
RRP: $123.84$109.61Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and United Nations peacekeeping operations. This book...