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Grand Strategy and the Presidency: Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World by C. Dale Walton 9780415731225
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book examines the role and importance of the Presidency in the formulation and conduct of US grand strategy. The text discusses US strategic history, with particular emphasis on the period from the end of the Cold War to the present day. While... -
Revisiting Intelligence and Policy: Problems with Politicization and Receptivity by Stephen Marrin 9780415730211
RRP: £135.00£117.28The relationship between intelligence organizations and the national security policymakers which they support has its ups and downs. Sometimes the relationship is a good one; communication flows and both sides benefit from the interaction, but sometimes... -
US Hegemony and International Legitimacy: Norms, Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq by Lavina Rajendram Lee 9780415724302
RRP: £29.99£26.64This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq. The preference for unilateral action in foreign policy under the Bush Administration, culminating in the use of... -
Statebuilding and Justice Reform: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan by Matteo Tondini 9780415724296
RRP: £43.99£38.44The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001. In particular, it focuses on the role of international actors and their interaction with local stakeholders,... -
International Law, Security and Ethics: Policy Challenges in the post-9/11 World by Aidan Hehir 9780415724104
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book examines the different ways in which the laws governing the use of force and the conduct of warfare have become subject to intense scrutiny and contestation since the initiation of the war on terror. Since the end of the Cold War, the... -
Violence and War in Culture and the Media: Five Disciplinary Lenses by Athina Karatzogianni 9780415721349
RRP: £43.99£38.44This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence... -
Soviet-Vietnam Relations and the Role of China 1949-64: Changing Alliances by Mari Olsen 9780415544924
RRP: £43.99£38.44This new book analyzes how the Soviet leadership evaluated developments in Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the years from 1949 to 1964. Focusing on how Soviet leaders actually perceived China's role in Vietnam relative to the Soviet role, it shows how... -
Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: The Gangs and Cartels Wage War by Robert Bunker J 9780415533447
RRP: £135.00£117.28In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have... -
China, Europe and International Security: Interests, Roles, and Prospects by Frans-Paul van der Putten 9780415532532
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book examines the roles played by China and Europe in the domain of international security in the 21st century. Bringing together Chinese and European expertise on the Sino-European Security relationship , this book positions Europe - both the... -
Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations David Chandler (University of Westminster, UK) 9780415532518
RRP: £48.99£42.66This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR.The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics,... -
Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond by Toby Dodge 9780415532570
RRP: £68.99£59.92As the international security forces prepare to depart from Afghanistan, this Adelphi turns attention to the ability of a ravaged country to tackle its myriad security problems, overcome crippling poverty and corruption and somehow revive its devastated... -
Terrorism and the Olympics: Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future Anthony Richards (University of East London, UK) 9780415532426
RRP: £53.99£46.87The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat. The enormous media profile and symbolic significance of the Olympic Games,... -
Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: The Gangs and Cartels Wage War by Robert Bunker J 9780415533751
RRP: £44.99£39.28In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have... -
Narcos Over the Border: Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries by Robert J. Bunker 9780415560726
RRP: £135.00£117.68The book takes a hard hitting look at the drug wars taking place in Mexico between competing gangs, cartels, and mercenary factions; their insurgency against the Mexican state; the narco-violence and terrorism that is increasingly coming over the border... -
Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia: Third-party Mediation in Regional Conflict by Jacob Bercovitch 9780415558785
RRP: £35.99£31.69This edited volume examines the sources, manifestations and management of conflict in East Asia, which contains many of the world's conflict flashpoints, such as the Korean Peninsula and the China-Taiwan Strait. In particular, the book will elaborate... -
The Politics of Destroying Surplus Small Arms: Inconspicuous Disarmament by Aaron Karp 9780415557832
RRP: £43.99£38.44Although it receives much less attention than better known disarmament processes, the destruction of small arms is reshaping the military arsenals of the world. Out of roughly 200 modern military small arms world-wide, about 500,000 are destroyed every... -
Pathways from Ethnic Conflict: Institutional Redesign in Divided Societies by John Coakley 9780415554022
RRP: £96.99£84.45The book begins with an agenda-setting introduction which will provide an overview of the central question being addressed, such as the circumstances associated with the move towards a political settlement, the parameters of this settlement and the... -
European Union and Strategy: An Emerging Actor by Kjell Engelbrekt 9780415545310
RRP: £43.99£38.44This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper. The book has a two-fold agenda,... -
Radical Islam and International Security: Challenges and Responses by Efraim Inbar 9780415545303
RRP: £43.99£38.44Radical Islam poses a political challenge in the modern world which is like that of no other radical religious movement. Ideologically, it is perceived by Western policy makers as threatening the liberal-democratic ideology by which most states in the... -
Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays on Theory and Practice I. William Zartman (John Hopkins University, USA) 9780415545297
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability,... -
Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War Edward C. O'Dowd (Marine Corps University, Quantico, USA) 9780415545280
RRP: £53.99£46.87This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events. The Sino-Vietnamese War was the third Indochina war, and contemporary Southeast... -
China's War on Terrorism: Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security Martin I. Wayne 9780415545181
RRP: £53.99£46.87China's war on terror is among its most prominent and least understood of campaigns. With links to the global jihad, an indigenous insurgency threatens the government's grip on a massive region of north- western China known as Xinjiang. Riots, bombings,... -
Understanding Terrorist Innovation: Technology, Tactics and Global Trends Adam Dolnik 9780415545167
RRP: £42.99£37.59This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical... -
Nuclear Proliferation and International Security by Sverre Lodgaard 9780415545150
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has long been key in non-proliferation and disarmament activities. The Treaty is the major international legal obstacle for states seeking nuclear weapon capabilities. In retrospect, and despite setbacks, the... -
Military Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq Paul Robinson 9780415545099
RRP: £43.99£38.44This study presents the first examination of the influence of ideas of honour on the causes, conduct and ending of wars from Ancient Greece to the present day. Paul Robinson begins with a theoretical examination of the concept of honour, to clearly... -
Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Overview by Giuseppe Caforio 9780415545082
RRP: £43.99£38.44This innovative book presents the reader with a clear international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. In this first title on its subject, leading expert Giuseppe Caforio offers a... -
European Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge of Multipolarity by Adrian Hyde-Price 9780415545075
RRP: £43.99£38.44Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed empirical case-studies, this book provides an original view of the challenges and threats to a stable peace order in Europe. The end of Cold War bipolarity has transformed Europe. Using... -
The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79 Odd Arne Westad 9780415545051
RRP: £53.99£46.87This new collection explores the origins and key issues of the Third Indochina War, which began in 1979.Drawing on unique documentation from all sides, leading contributors reinterpret and demystify the long-term and immediate causes of the... -
Civil-Military Relations in Europe: Learning from Crisis and Institutional Change by Dr. Hans Born 9780415545013
RRP: £43.99£38.44This new book illustrates how democracy cannot develop or endure unless military and security forces are under the full control of democratic institutions, and all the necessary safeguards, checks and balances are in place. The contributors show how... -
Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century: Altered Images and Deception Operations Scot Macdonald 9780415545006
RRP: £54.99£47.72This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations.In the past, propagandists and those seeking to conduct deception operations used crude... -
Europeanization of National Security Identity: The EU and the changing security identities of the Nordic states by Pernille Rieker 9780415544948
RRP: £28.99£25.09This new book tackles two key questions: 1) How is the EU functioning as a security actor? 2) How and to what extent is the EU affecting national security identities? Focusing on the four largest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden),... -
Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Revolution in Accountability Chandra Lekha Sriram 9780415544900
RRP: £43.99£38.44This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its ramifications.With a detailed overview of the contemporary practice of universal jurisdiction, it... -
War as Risk Management: Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks Yee-Kuang Heng 9780415544993
RRP: £43.99£38.44This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response.It addresses why the study of 'risk management' has helped fields such as sociology and criminology... -
Intelligence and Strategic Culture by Isabelle Duyvesteyn 9780415523547
RRP: £135.00£117.28Reliable information on potential security threats is not just the result of diligent intelligence work but also a product of context and culture. The volume explores the nexus between the intelligence process and strategic culture. How can and does the... -
China's Emergence as a Defense Technological Power by Tai Ming Cheung 9780415519847
RRP: £135.00£117.28China is flexing its growing military and strategic clout in the pursuit of broadening national security interests. At the same time, the country's economic and technology policies have also become more nationalistic, state-centered, and ambitious... -
Assessing the Capitalist Peace by Gerald Schneider 9780415529891
RRP: £135.00£117.28Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful. According to this adage, the contract intensity of capitalist... -
Transforming NATO in the Cold War: Challenges beyond Deterrence in the 1960s by Andreas Wenger 9780415512541
RRP: £51.99£45.19The first comprehensive history of NATO in the 1960s, based on the systematic use of multinational archival evidence. This new book is the result of a gathering of leading Cold War historians from both sides of the Atlantic, including Jeremi Suri,... -
Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force: Stability Missions in the Post-Cold War Era by Chiyuki Aoi 9780415510035
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. In the success of stability operations, legitimacy is key. In order to achieve success, the... -
Nuclear Proliferation and International Order: Challenges to the Non-Proliferation Treaty by Olav Njolstad 9780415510028
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century. Despite the fact that most countries in the world have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) there is growing concern that... -
US Strategy in Africa: AFRICOM, Terrorism and Security Challenges by Professor David J. Francis 9780415510011
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book outlines the construction, interpretations and understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early twenty-first century. No single issue or event in the recent decades in Africa has provoked so much controversy and unified hostility...