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Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb by Sumit Ganguly 9780415582117
RRP: £43.99£38.44This edited volume explores competing perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons proliferation on the South Asian security environment. The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the world's foremost security concerns. The effect of nuclear weapons... -
Nuclear Weapons and Conflict Transformation: The Case of India-Pakistan by Saira Khan 9780415577823
RRP: £33.99£30.00This new volume explores what the acquisition of nuclear weapons means for the life of a protracted conflict. The book argues that the significance of the possession of nuclear weapons in conflict resolution has been previously overlooked. Saira... -
Women and Terrorism: Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups Margaret Gonzalez-Perez 9780415570732
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era. Utilizing comparative research into 26 terrorist organizations world-wide, the work identifies a dichotomy whereby women are significantly more... -
Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas: Dilemmas of a Conventional Army Sergio Catignani 9780415570121
RRP: £53.99£46.87This volume analyzes the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF) counter-insurgency operations during the two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) in the Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It employs primary and secondary... -
European Integration and the Cold War: Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973 by N. Piers Ludlow 9780415569903
RRP: £53.99£46.87This edited volume uses newly released archival material to show linkages between the development of the European Union and the Cold War. Containing essays by well-known Cold War scholars such as Jussi Hanhimaki, Wilfried Loth and Piers Ludlow, the... -
Cyber-Security and Threat Politics: US Efforts to Secure the Information Age Myriam Dunn Cavelty 9780415569880
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book explores the political process behind the construction of cyber-threats as one of the quintessential security threats of modern times in the US.Myriam Dunn Cavelty posits that cyber-threats are definable by their unsubstantiated nature. Despite... -
Clausewitz and America: Strategic Thought and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq Stuart Kinross (National Audit Office, London, UK) 9780415569637
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book demonstrates how Clausewitzian thought influenced American strategic thinking between the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq. Carl von Clausewitz's thought played a part in the process of military reform and the transition in US... -
UN Peace Operations and Asian Security by Mely Cabellero-Anthony 9780415568258
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is an unparallelled analysis of the state of the United Nations peace operations and their impact on Asian security.This new volume examines new strategies being adopted by the UN; including doctrinal shifts in peace operation, and assesses the... -
EU Conflict Management by James Hughes 9780415567473
RRP: £91.99£79.80The EU's self promotion as a 'conflict manager' is embedded in a discourse about its 'shared values' and their foundation in a connection between security, development and democracy. This book provides a collection of essays based on the latest cutting... -
Regional Organizations in African Security by Dr Fredrik Soderbaum 9780415597876
RRP: £135.00£117.28The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has the state's capacity to provide security and political stability to its citizens. This book deals with the... -
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and India by Rajiv Nayan 9780415593915
RRP: £135.00£117.28The relationship of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with India has been an interesting subject in the field of security studies. The nuclearisation of India and its subsequent rise are further forcing the world to redefine its relationship with the... -
Women and Political Violence: Female Combatants in Ethno-National Conflict Miranda Alison 9780415592420
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants' involvement in ethno-national conflicts.Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways... -
European Security in a Global Context: Internal and External Dynamics by Thierry Tardy 9780415590778
RRP: £43.99£38.44This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa,... -
Court-Martial: How Military Justice Has Shaped America from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond by Chris Bray 9780393243406
RRP: £21.00£19.73Historian Chris Bray (a former soldier) tells the sweeping story of military justice from the institution of the American court martial in the earliest days of the Republic to contemporary arguments over how to use military courts to try foreign... -
Knowledge and Expertise in International Interventions: The Politics of Facts, Truth and Authenticity by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara 9780367892821
RRP: £19.99£17.69Knowledge about violent conflict and international intervention is political. It involves power struggles over the objects of knowing (problematization/silencing), how they are known (epistemic practices), and what interpretations are taken into account... -
Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia by Jean-Francois Ratelle 9780367891305
RRP: £39.99£35.06Recent wars in Eurasia have foregrounded the flows of foreign fighters between distinct insurgent battlefronts. Since 2011 thousands of individuals have travelled from the Caucasus and Central Asia to fight in Syria and Iraq. Caucasians have also... -
Challenging Executive Dominance: Legislatures and Foreign Affairs by Tapio Raunio 9780367892005
RRP: £41.99£36.75Bringing together scholars from Europe and North America, this book examines the engagement of legislatures across the world in foreign and security policy. The articles are specifically chosen to cover the whole range of foreign affairs questions from... -
Counterinsurgency, Security Forces, and the Identification Problem: Distinguishing Friend From Foe by Jr Magruder 9780367887346
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book presents a theory and empirical evidence for how security forces can identify militant suspects during counterinsurgency operations. A major oversight on the part of academics and practitioners has been to ignore the critical antecedent... -
Securitization Revisited: Contemporary Applications and Insights by Michael J. Butler 9780367150372
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become 'securitized' and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are. A generation after the introduction of the concept of securitization to the security studies field, this book... -
Gender Politics and Security Discourse: Personal-Political Imaginations and Feminism in 'Post-conflict' Serbia Laura McLeod (University of Manchester, UK) 9780367787332
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book investigates competing modes of thought about gender security and aims to understand the policy implications of personal-political imaginations.The work draws upon extensive research conducted by the author in Serbia to develop a comprehensive... -
Privatizing War: A Moral Theory by William Feldman 9780367787288
RRP: £26.99£23.46This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war. It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors might wage as functionaries of the state. The first... -
The Ethics of Military Privatization: The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon by David M. Barnes 9780367787271
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate. While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization... -
Alternative and bottom-up peace indicators by Roger Mac Ginty 9780367739638
RRP: £39.99£35.06There is widespread dissatisfaction with the current suite of evaluation and monitoring tools available to peacebuilders and those responding to conflict. Yet, despite this dissatisfaction, there are few concrete moves to investigate alternative methods... -
Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence by Keith B. Payne 9780367739164
RRP: £39.99£35.06The National Institute for Public Policy's new book, Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence, is the first of its kind. Dr. Keith Payne, the late former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and an unparalleled bipartisan group of senior civilian and... -
Commercial Insurgencies in the Networked Era: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia by Oscar Palma 9780367731748
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book examines the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as a commercial insurgency through the network-complex paradigm of insurgency. Countering traditional perspectives of the group, it proposes new and comprehensive explanations for... -
Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Global and regional dynamics by Robert Ayson 9780367719487
RRP: £135.00£117.68From the war on terror to the rise of China, this book unlocks the major strategic themes and security challenges of the early twenty-first century. Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of... -
The Falklands War: Lessons for Strategy, Diplomacy, and International Law by Alberto R. Coll 9780367706869
£106.61First published in 1985, The Falklands War was the first comprehensive work of its kind. The book brings together a wealth of work by scholars and practitioners in the fields of diplomacy, military affairs, and international politics and law. It... -
Warfare in the Enemy's Rear by Otto Heilbrunn 9780367711825
£106.61This book, first published in 1963, is an analysis of modern warfare in the enemy's rear, written by the leading authority on irregular warfare, and stemming from a close examination of real-life examples. Rear warfare on scale poses many problems, such... -
The European Community: A Superpower in the Making by Johan Galtung 9780367710910
£93.60This book, first published in 1973, analyses the European Community in a global perspective. It asks and answers two main questions: what does the European Community mean to the masses of the world, and what does it mean to the world community in... -
Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence by Christopher Andrew 9780367708757
£93.60Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War, the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint. This book, first... -
Warfare in a Fragile World: Military Impact on the Human Environment by Sipri 9780367714659
£106.61This book, first published in 1980, examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to environmental degradation. The military capability to damage the environment has escalated. The military use and abuse of each of the... -
Estimating Foreign Military Power by Philip Towle 9780367714451
£106.61This book, first published in 1982, addresses the problem of assessing the central and regional balance of power. The collection of essays by experts on the different countries looks at the miscalculations about the military power of foreign countries... -
The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes by Christopher Clapham 9780367705787
£106.61First published in 1985, The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes was written against the backdrop of the increased prominence of military intervention in the political process during this century. The book puts forward the argument that the basic... -
Terrorism: The Cuban Connection by Roger W. Fontaine 9780367696009
£106.61First published in 1988, Terrorism: The Cuban Connection examines Cuba's involvement in terrorism. With a focus on Havana, the book begins by looking at Cuba's history and the origins of terrorism. As it progresses, the book traces the development of... -
The Influence of British Arms: An Analysis of British Military Intervention Since 1956 by James H. Wyllie 9780367701574
£93.60Which event better characterises British military interventions: the trauma of Suez or the triumph of the Falklands? This book, first published in 1984, examines these engagements and those of the intervening period to provide a sober and considered... -
Maritime Strategy for Medium Powers by Rear Admiral J.R. Hill 9780367712198
£106.61This book, first published in 1986, argues that there is a special category of medium powers in the world - such as Britain, France, India, Brazil, Japan, China and others - which have sufficient military power to do something to protect their interests... -
The Military's Impact on Democratic Development: Midwives or gravediggers of democracy? David Kuehn 9780367519650
RRP: £39.99£35.06Despite the decline in the number of military coups since the 1960s and 1970s, Militaries continue to be crucial political actors in many world regions. Their impact on the democratic development of nations, however, has been mixed. On the one hand,... -
Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society by Karen Lund Petersen 9780367441685
RRP: £135.00£117.28Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society shows how today's intelligence practices constantly contest the frontiers between normal politics and security politics, and between civil society and the state. Today's intelligence... -
Embodying Militarism: Exploring the Spaces and Bodies In-Between by Synne L. Dyvik 9780367255220
RRP: £43.99£38.44How are militarism and militarisation embodied and why is it important to study these concepts together? This volume highlights a lack of research into people's emotions, bodies and experiences in global politics, and brings these important dimensions to... -
Jihadist Insurgent Movements by Paul B. Rich 9780367251932
RRP: £43.99£38.44This path-breaking collection of papers examines the phenomenon of jihadist insurgent movements in the Middle East and North, East and West Africa. It argues that military and strategic analysts have paid insufficient attention to the phenomenon of...