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Australia's Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests by Michael Clarke 9781138384033
RRP: $100.78$87.80Australia's Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests critically re-evaluates Australia's engagement with nuclear weapons, nuclear power and the nuclear fuel cycle since the dawn of the nuclear age. The authors develop a... -
The Role of Small States in the European Union by Baldur Thorhallsson 9781138378247
RRP: $100.78$87.80A fully documented text which addresses a key issue of EU decision-making which is surfacing again in proposed institutional reforms. It looks at the role of smaller states, deals with the important criteria of distribution and redistribution of EU... -
Gendering Military Sacrifice: A Feminist Comparative Analysis by Cecilia Ase 9781138329850
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book offers a feminist analysis of military sacrifice and reveals the importance of a gender perspective in understanding the idea of honourable death. In present-day security discourses, traditional masculinised obligations to die for the... -
UN Intervention Practices in Iraq: A Discursive Approach to International Interventions by Kerstin Eppert 9781138352827
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book analyzes UN intervention discourses and practices in Iraq and develops a deconstructive approach to international interventions. Hitherto, most analyses of the conflict in Iraq in 2003 have established the UN's role as path-dependent on the... -
Why Nations Put to Sea: Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century Kevin L. Falk 9781138324237
RRP: $69.28$61.24Originally published in 2000, this book describes the relation between technology and the exercise of sea power. It emphasizes the importance of mastering and maintaining technology for the means of exercising maritime power whether the USA is at peace... -
EU-Japan Security Cooperation: Trends and Prospects by Emil J. Kirchner 9781138315808
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book assesses EU-Japan security relations, examining how they have developed in individual security sectors and how they could be affected by international developments. The conclusions of the Economic Partnership Agreement and the Strategic... -
Militarizing Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Technology, and Regulation by Nik Hynek 9780367492878
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the military characteristics and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the new global revolution in military affairs.Offering an original perspective on the utilization, imagination, and politics of AI in the context of military... -
Sustainable States: Environment, Governance, and the Future of the Middle East by Jon B. Alterman 9781538140376
RRP: $81.90$67.18The importance of environmentally sustainable public utilities in the Middle East is an improbable topic for a Washington think tank study. Yet, many countries in the Middle East face serious challenges providing utilities in any manner to their... -
Political Minefields: The Struggle against Automated Killing by Matthew Bolton 9781780761589
RRP: $168.00$147.42Thousands of people around the world are maimed and killed by landmines and unexploded ammunition every year. International law classifies landmines as 'evil in themselves', but minefields are expressions of 'political minefields' that create them and... -
Cases in U.S. National Security: Concepts and Processes by Donald M. Snow 9781538115664
RRP: $63.00$50.76Modeled after his successful Cases in International Relations, now in its seventh edition, revered author and scholar, Don Snow, presents an engaging and novel approach to national security. A series of brief case studies representing current and... -
Iranian Strategic Influence: Information and the Culture of Resistance by W a Rivera 9781538164679
RRP: $189.00$165.50Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the strategic culture of resistance has dominated Iran's strategic objective and foreign policy preference formation. Iran is a revisionist state that lacks overwhelming military and economic dominance in its near... -
Beyond Covid-19: Effects On Diverse Fields by Sefika Sule Ercetin 9781800611443
RRP: $231.00$200.05While humanity continues to grapple with COVID-19 and its ramifications, Beyond COVID-19: Effects on Diverse Fields provides a unique opportunity to foresee the repercussions of the pandemic across a range of fields through the lens of chaos and... -
Singapore Synthesis, The: Innovation, Inclusion, Inspiration by Ravi Menon 9789811251450
RRP: $52.50$45.76Ravi Menon is the Institute of Policy Studies' 9th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered in July 2021, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with... -
Rape during Civil War by Dara Kay Cohen 9781501702518
RRP: $226.80$196.14Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape... -
Military Interventions in Civil Wars: The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and Arms Trade by Kamil C. Klosek 9780367753412
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade.The book assumes a state-centric view of international relations, whereby states remain the... -
Statebuilding Missions and Media Development: A Context-Sensitive Approach by Kerstin Tomiak 9781032063874
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the effects of media interventions in the global South, and argues for a more adaptive and context-sensitive media development.The work investigates media development as part of statebuilding and the effects that Western-led media has... -
EU Missions and Peacebuilding: Building Peace through the Common Security and Defence Policy by Vladimir Kmec 9781032058351
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book analyses the European Union’s (EU) approach to peacebuilding in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, and explores how this approach impacts the EU’s role in international conflict management.Peacebuilding carried out through... -
Moral Responsibility, Statecraft and Humanitarian Intervention: The US Response to Rwanda, Darfur, and Libya by Cathinka Vik 9780367599126
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book explores the moral complexity of statecraft in the context of decision-making on armed intervention in the post-Cold War era. This book adds to the debate on humanitarian intervention by analyzing the moral complexity of statecraft when... -
Us Intelligence and Al Qaeda: Analysis by Contrasting Narratives by Peter de Werd 9781474478069
RRP: $199.50$181.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474478069Author Peter de WerdFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 535g -
Rebel Financing and Terrorism in Civil Wars by Margherita Belgioioso 9781032445014
RRP: $104.98$91.35This book investigates the ways in which the lethality of terrorist violence depends on how rebel organizations finance their rebellion.The leaders of rebel groups make calculated decisions on the intensity of terrorism killings, considering the benefits... -
Nuclear Command and Control Norms: A Comparative Study by Salma Shaheen 9780367585167
RRP: $88.18$77.18This book offers a new analytical framework for studying nuclear command and control (C2), based on a comparative study of four nuclear weapons states (NWS).The subject of nuclear operations management has long been shrouded in secrecy, and whilst the... -
The Nordic Dimension of Energy Security by Ryszard M. Czarny 9783030370428
RRP: $94.48$85.22This book will show that when some countries begin using oil and gas as an instrument of exerting pressure and to realize political goals, energy security becomes synonymous with national security as well as economic security. It is within this context... -
The Molecularisation of Security: Medical Countermeasures, Stockpiling and the Governance of Biological Threats Christopher Long (University of Sussex, UK) 9780367683610
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the governance of biological threats.In response to biological threats, such as pandemics and bioterrorism, governments around the world... -
Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness: Does Fair Play Pay Off? by Ophir Falk 9780367505967
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror.Targeted killing has become a primary counterterrorism measure used by several countries in their confrontation with lethal threats. The practice has... -
Translations of Security: A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures by Trine Villumsen Berling 9781032007151
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger.Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organisational changes,... -
Russia and the World in the Putin Era: From Theory to Reality in Russian Global Strategy Roger E. Kanet (University of Miami, USA) 9781032040707
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin's rule. When the Soviet Union disintegrated after the Cold War, Russia seemingly embarked on the establishment of a democratic political system and seemed intent on joining the... -
Partition and Peace in Civil Wars: Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict by Carter R. Johnson 9780367673802
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines whether partition is an effective means to resolve ethnic and sectarian 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,... -
Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction by Mark B. Salter 9780367621193
RRP: $262.50$226.51This textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, filling a gap in the literature. The second edition has been revised and updated. This textbook is a practical guide to research design in this increasingly... -
Escalation Management in International Crises: The United States and its Adversaries by Jonathan Wilkenfeld 9781800887312
$223.88This insightful and timely book considers the role of great-power competition in what has come to be known as gray zone conflict. Based on cutting-edge empirical research, it addresses the question: how can interactions between adversaries in... -
Militias, States and Violence against Civilians: Civic Vice, Civic Virtue by Paul Lorenzo Johnson 9781032122816
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book examines the conditions under which the presence and use of militias result in an increase or a decrease in violence against civilians in intra-state conflicts. Showcasing the breadth and diversity of modern militias in the context of violence... -
India's Southeast Asia Policy during the Cold War: Identity, Inclination and Pragmatism 1947-1989 by Tridib Chakraborti 9780367724924
RRP: $75.58$66.55Over the course of four decades of the Cold War, Chakraborti and Chakraborty analyse India's path from nonalignment towards realism and self-assertion, and finally to confidence-building and interdependence with respect to their neighbours in Southeast... -
India's Southeast Asia Policy during the Cold War: Identity, Inclination and Pragmatism 1947-1989 by Tridib Chakraborti 9780367724931
RRP: $262.50$226.51Over the course of four decades of the Cold War, Chakraborti and Chakraborty analyse India's path from nonalignment towards realism and self-assertion, and finally to confidence-building and interdependence with respect to their neighbours in Southeast... -
European Strategic Autonomy and Small States' Security: In the Shadow of Power Giedrius Cesnakas (General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania) 9781032350073
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book analyses whether the EU's drift towards European strategic autonomy presents a challenge or a window of opportunity for its small member states to advance their security interests. The volume presents small states' perceptions of European... -
Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect: The Politics of Norm Circulation by Sarka Kolmasova 9781032334066
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book contributes to existing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) by demonstrating new advocacy strategies and the greater inter-connectedness of various R2P proponents. In 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution on R2P,... -
How Wars End: Theory and Practice by Damien Kingsbury 9781032329512
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book addresses one of the most important issues in international relations - how wars are ended. The volume draws on the direct experience of both soldiers and academics, who in each case have also been advisers on fighting and ending wars. Unlike... -
The Making of European Security Policy: Between Institutional Dynamics and Global Challenges by Roberta Haar 9780367774806
RRP: $79.78$70.10This volume addresses how and in what capacity the European Union and its member states are able to respond to fundamental shifts occurring in global politics and remain relevant for the future. The changing nature of the international system is... -
Underwater Domain Awareness: Case for India by Prakash Panneerselvam 9781032192680
RRP: $104.98$91.35This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the emerging underwater challenges facing India in the Indian Ocean region. With major economic powers like China, the US, and Russia modernising their submarine fleets and building advanced Unmanned... -
Epidemic Risk Reduction: A Civil Protection Approach by Pawel Gromek 9781032181004
RRP: $144.88$124.99Epidemic Risk Reduction: A Civil Protection Approach focuses on disaster risk reduction (DRR) relative to epidemic outbreak and the concept of civil protection and public safety. First and foremost, the primary role of public officials and... -
Making Sense of Cyber Capabilities for Small States: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific by Francis C. Domingo 9781032077628
RRP: $283.50$246.29Domingo explores the potential of cyber capabilities for small states in the Asia-Pacific, the most active region for cyber conflict. He develops a systematic explanation for why Brunei, New Zealand, and Singapore have developed or are developing cyber... -
Security and Development by George Mavrotas 9780857938381
$221.78The overall nexus between security and development poses some formidable questions about the multiple forms of violence which afflict the international community: Why are some places peaceful whilst others are violent? Is poverty the main cause of civil...