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Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience: Volume Two: The Winter Campaign, 1941-1942 by Colonel David M. Glantz 9781138873551
RRP: £47.99£41.81The Soviet Study of War" series examines the lessons Soviet military theorists and commanders learned from the study of their own military experience. These are translations of Soviet documents.Book InformationISBN 9781138873551Author Colonel David... -
America, Technology and Strategic Culture: A Clausewitzian Assessment by Brice Harris 9781138873544
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book analyses the American way of war within the context of Clausewitzian theory. In doing so, it draws conclusions about the origins, viability, and technical feasibility of America's current strategic approach. The author argues that the... -
Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960-1963: A Troubled Partnership by Constantine A. Pagedas 9781138873612
RRP: £49.99£43.50Drawing on official records and private papers, this book offers insights into Anglo-American reactions to France's development of an independent nuclear capability; France's bid for the political leadership of Europe; Britain's first application to join... -
Wars, Revolutions and Dictatorships: Studies of Historical and Contemporary Problems from a Comparative Viewpoint by Stanislav Andreski 9781138873582
RRP: £41.99£36.75First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. We can define war as organised fighting between groups of individuals belonging to the same species but occupying distinct territories, thus distinguishing war... -
Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices and Paradigms by David Chandler 9781138873490
RRP: £47.99£41.81This edited book sets out and engages with some of the key policies, practices and paradigms of external intervention in the case of state support and reconstruction. Many assumptions about statebuilding have been reconsidered in the wake of Iraq, and... -
Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States: Institutional Incentives, Myths and Counter-Balancing by Brian Shoup 9781138873483
RRP: £47.99£41.81Interethnic competition in plural societies is often characterized by a 'counterbalance' of political and economic strength between different groups. In such cases, tensions emerge as politically dominant groups fear loss of hegemony to more economically... -
Terrorism and the Politics of Naming by Michael Bhatia 9781138873728
RRP: £19.99£17.69Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume assesses the nature, power, role and function of names in global politics and the international media. Names are not objective, they accrue subjective associations, for... -
Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the Quest for Accountability by George Andreopoulos 9781138854741
RRP: £135.00£117.28Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have constituted a perennial feature of the security landscape. Yet, it is their involvement in and conduct during the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have transformed the outsourcing of security... -
Lone Wolf and Autonomous Cell Terrorism by Jeffrey Kaplan 9781138851221
RRP: £135.00£117.68President Obama has declared that the greatest terrorist threat which America faces is attacks by lone wolf terrorists. This volume expands the lone wolf rubric to include autonomous cells: small groups of terrorists who cooperate, but operate... -
Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific by Jeffrey S. Lantis 9781138841444
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies-strategic culture-illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region's difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations... -
Economic Assistance and Conflict Transformation: Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland by Sean Byrne 9781138840898
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book examines the role of economic aid in the management and resolution of protracted ethnic conflicts, focusing on the case study of Northern Ireland. The book describes the results of a study of the role of economic aid within Northern... -
The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security and Identity by Veronica M. Kitchen 9781138831896
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions. Originally, NATO... -
US Taiwan Policy: Constructing the Triangle by Oystein Tunsjo 9781138814530
RRP: £49.99£43.50The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to conditions across the Taiwan Strait. This book is the first to attempt to trace the historical origin of... -
Intelligence in the Cold War: What Difference did it Make? Michael Herman (Nuffield College, Oxford, UK) 9781138814486
RRP: £43.99£38.44Intelligence was a major part of the Cold War, waged by both sides with an almost warlike intensity. Yet the question 'What difference did it all make?' remains unanswered. Did it help to contain the Cold War, or fuel it and keep it going? Did it make it... -
Privatizing War: A Moral Theory by William Feldman 9781138803954
RRP: £100.00£86.61This 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 type... -
China's Emergence as a Defense Technological Power by Tai Ming Cheung 9781138798427
RRP: £53.99£46.87China 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... -
The Korean War at Sixty: New Approaches to the Study of the Korean War by Steven Casey 9781138798298
RRP: £53.99£46.87Korea used to be the 'forgotten war.' Now, however, experts widely view it as a pivotal moment in the history of the Cold War, while its legacy still scars contemporary East Asian politics. The sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War is a fitting time... -
A Micro-Sociology of Violence: Deciphering patterns and dynamics of collective violence by Jutta Bakonyi 9781138798106
RRP: £43.99£35.94This book aims at a deeper understanding of social processes, dynamics and institutions shaping collective violence. It argues that violence is a social practice that adheres to social logics and, in its collective form, appears as recurrent patterns. In... -
Qualitative Methods in Military Studies: Research Experiences and Challenges Helena Carreiras (ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) 9781138797482
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this... -
Peacebuilding and NGOs: State-Civil Society Interactions by Ryerson Christie 9781138797451
RRP: £49.99£43.50Analysing the relationship between civil society and the state, this book lays bare the assumptions informing peacebuilding practices and demonstrates through empirical research how such practices have led to new dynamics of conflict. The drive to... -
Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation: The Problem(s) of Producing Public Goods by Raphael Bossong 9781138793255
RRP: £135.00£117.28Internal security is often hailed as a rapidly expanding area of European integration, with a growing number of strategies, policies and framework agreements in recent years. Yet actual cooperation, when viewed closely, proceeds at a halting pace -... -
Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence by Keith B. Payne 9781138781160
RRP: £135.00£117.28The 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... -
Civilians and Warfare in World History by Nicola Foote 9781138749917
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book explores the role played by civilians in shaping the outcomes of military combat across time and place. This volume explores the contributions civilians have made to warfare in case studies that range from ancient Europe to contemporary... -
Space Policy in Developing Countries: The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier Robert Harding 9781138729407
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world. Space was at one time the sole domain of the wealthiest developed countries. However, the last couple of decades of the twentieth century and the first... -
Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century: Cross-Regional Perspectives by Jo Inge Bekkevold 9781138729360
RRP: £49.99£43.90This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing. A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and... -
Embodying Militarism: Exploring the Spaces and Bodies In-Between by Synne L. Dyvik 9781138715196
RRP: £135.00£117.28How 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... -
Researching the Military Helena Carreiras (ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) 9781138309241
RRP: £43.99£38.44Researching the Military focuses on the experiences of researchers who study the military around the world. It explores the historical, social, institutional and personal factors that frame research and scrutinize the way knowledge in this area impacts... -
International Mediation in a Fragile World by David Carment 9781138297074
RRP: £135.00£117.28Contributions to this volume consider the importance of mediation in violent conflict. Practical and applied, this publication will be of interest to scholars, academics, policymakers and practitioners. It was originally published as a special issue of... -
Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy: Post-Cold War Developments in the Common Security and Defence Policy by Petros Violakis 9781138295155
RRP: £135.00£117.68The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the... -
Regional Institutions, Geopolitics and Economics in the Asia-Pacific: Evolving Interests and Strategies by Steven B. Rothman 9781138290860
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume discusses the relationship between economics, geopolitics and regional institutional growth and development in the Asia-Pacific region. How do states (re)define their relationships amid the current global power transition? How do rival... -
Monumental Conflicts: Twentieth-Century Wars and the Evolution of Public Memory by Derek Mallett 9781138282278
RRP: £135.00£117.28Monumental Conflicts examines 20th century wars from the First World War to the First Gulf War, each chapter analyzing how public memory has evolved over time. The chapters raise fascinating questions about war and memory: Why are wars... -
Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War by Stefan Goebel 9781138273252
RRP: £49.99£43.50Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, however, they were drawn ever closer to the front line and to direct and continuous experience of... -
From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan: British Military Intelligence Operations, Ethics and Human Rights Jon Moran 9781138249790
RRP: £49.99£43.50Moran concentrates on three aims: to provide an overview of British military intelligence operations in the last 30 years which concentrates on operational not strategic intelligence; to examine the debates over ethics and effectiveness that have... -
Statebuilding in Afghanistan: Multinational Contributions to Reconstruction by Nik Hynek 9781138221741
RRP: £43.99£38.44This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF's contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security... -
People's War: Variants and Responses by Thomas A Marks 9781138484849
RRP: £135.00£117.68Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques, people's war raises what has always been present in military history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and... -
Developments in Counter-Terrorist Measures and Uses of Technology Helen Fenwick (Durham University, UK) 9781138107700
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book considers some of the most notable aspects of the legal response to the "war on terror" post- 9/11 and the use of technology to support them. It examines the shift from a criminal justice response to the creation of a parallel preventive system... -
Turkey's New Foreign Policy: Davutoglu, the AKP and the Pursuit of Regional Order by Aaron Stein 9781138142909
RRP: £135.00£117.28Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP), after coming to power in 2002, sought to play a larger diplomatic role in the Middle East. The AKP adopted a proactive foreign policy to create 'strategic depth' by expanding Turkey's zone of influence in the... -
Arguing Development Policy: Frames and Discourses by Raymond Apthorpe 9781138160286
RRP: £135.00£117.28This collection shows how policy discourses in the fields of national and international developments are constructed and operate and how they can be analysed. Dominant discourses screen out certain aspects: they frame' issues to include some matters and... -
The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06 by Michael Clarke 9781138161641
RRP: £135.00£117.28In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban. ... -
Less is Better: Nuclear Restraint at Low Numbers by Malcolm Chalmers 9781138154933
RRP: £37.99£33.38Despite the rise of 'new' security threats like terrorism, cyber-war and piracy, the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons still hangs over the world. Discussion on further strategic nuclear arms reduction has tended to be dominated by the...