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Technology and Terorrism by Paul Wilkinson 9780714645520
RRP: £94.99£82.35This volume will be of interest to all students of terrorism, policymakers and security practitioners involved in combating terrorism from government officials, law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies to specialists in industrial security... -
Stability and Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Russian, Nordic and European Aspects by Olav Fagelund Knudsen 9780714644929
RRP: £41.99£36.75The book examines the security puzzles posed by the remaining legacies of dominance and conflict in the Baltic Sea region as governments seek to integrate the three Baltic sates in a more stable system of cooperative security.Book InformationISBN... -
Policy Coherence in Development Co-operation by Jacques Forster 9780714644646
RRP: £54.99£48.12In the 1990s, a shared conviction emerged among aid donors that their policies should be more coherent. The drive towards increased policy coherence came as a response to a state of policy incoherence. The shifting grounds of policy coherence in... -
Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting by J. P. Riley 9780714644448
RRP: £41.99£37.15This analysis of the world war between Napoleon and the 6th coalition in 1813 covers operations in Europe, Spain and North America. It examines the differences between alliances and coalitions, comparing the long-term international relationships in... -
Culture and Security: Multilateralism, Arms Control and Security Building by Keith R. Krause 9780714644370
RRP: £43.99£38.84A comprehensive and empirically rich set of case studies that examine the impact of socio-cultural influences on multilateral arms control and security-building processes around the world.Book InformationISBN 9780714644370Author Keith R. KrauseFormat... -
Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War Martin S. Alexander 9780714644332
RRP: £47.99£42.21Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have scholars troubled to discover when states entered into... -
The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 1935-1940 Robert Mallett 9780714644325
RRP: £53.99£46.87Robert Mallett argues that the Duce's aggressive war against the Mediterranean powers, Britain and France, was to secure access to the world's oceans. Mussolini actively pursued the Italo-German alliance to gain a Fascist empire stretching from the... -
The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944: A Critical Historiographical Analysis Leonid D. Grenkevich 9780714644288
RRP: £54.99£48.12Partisans and terrorists have dominated military history during the second half of the 20th century. Leonid Grenkevich offers an account of the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).About the... -
The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle J. Bowyer Bell 9780714644226
RRP: £47.99£41.81This is an analysis of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. The author has been shot at, kidnapped, expelled and questioned in wars from Central America to Northern Ireland. The book reflects his access to... -
Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy by Nancy W. Gallagher 9780714643632
RRP: £53.99£46.87Contents: Bridging the Gaps on Arms Control Nancy W. Gallagher. Arms Control in the Information Age Emily O. Goldman. A New Role for Transparency Ann M. Florini. Beyond Deterrence, Defence, and Arms Control Gloria Duffy. Nuclear Arms Control through... -
Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars Rear Admiral K. Raja Menon 9780714643489
RRP: £47.99£41.81Rear Admiral Raja Menon contends that nations embroiled in Continental wars have historically had poor maritime strategies. He develops the argument that navies that have been involved in such wars have made poor contributions to politial objectives, and... -
US Special Operations Forces in Action: The Challenge of Unconventional Warfare Thomas K. Adams 9780714643502
RRP: £61.99£54.01Armies in the 1990s are commonly involved in low-level, ill-defined, politically charged, messy situations known collectively as "unconventional warfare". Thomas Adams argues for a shift in expectations with a greater willingness to accept lengthy... -
The UN, Peace and Force by Michael C. Pugh 9780714643205
RRP: £43.99£38.44Restoring and maintaining peace within war-torn societies is a relatively new task for the United Nations. This book examines the options for the UN in the use of force to secure peace, and the extent to which peacekeeping can be effectively extended to... -
Arming the British Police: The Great Debate Roy Ingleton 9780714642994
RRP: £45.99£40.13As the fear of violent crime escalates, there are calls for the police to carry guns. This examination of the history of violent crime and violence against the representatives of law and order looks at the extent to which the "unarmed" British police... -
The Future of NATO Ted Galen Carpenter 9780714646473
RRP: £91.99£79.80The end of the Cold War has raised questions about the future of NATO. Now that the threat from the Warsaw Pact has disappeared, there seems little need for a Western military alliance of such magnitude. The contributions here offer various views on... -
Far-flung Lines: Studies in Imperial Defence in Honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman Greg Kennedy 9780714642161
RRP: £58.99£51.08These studies show how the British Empire used its maritime supremacy to construct and maintain a worldwide defence for its imperial interests. They rebut the idea that British defence policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was primarily... -
Action Directe: Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987 Michael Y. Dartnell 9780714642123
RRP: £49.99£43.50In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society.Reviews'Dr Michael... -
Realism: Restatements and Renewal Benjamin Frankel 9780714641461
RRP: £53.99£47.27Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings, making a contribution to the study of international relations.Book InformationISBN 9780714641461Author... -
US Military Strategy and the Cold War Endgame by Stephen J. Cimbala 9780714641171
RRP: £47.99£41.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Espionage: Past, Present and Future? by Wesley K. Wark 9780714640990
RRP: £43.99£38.44Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of... -
Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State Peter Gill 9780714640976
RRP: £53.99£46.87Numerous allegations of abuse of power have been made against the domestic security intelligence agencies in the United Kingdom such as police special branches and MI5. These include the improper surveillance of trade unionists and peace activists,... -
Defence and the Media in Time of Limited War by Peter R. Young 9780714640853
RRP: £21.99£19.74First Published in 2004. Events in the Gulf Crisis of 1990-91 have highlighted the importance of the increasingly complex and difficult relations between Defence and the Media in time of War - especially in time of limited conflict when the well-being -... -
Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience: Volume Three: Military Operations 1941 and 1942 by Harold S. Orenstein 9780714634029
RRP: £94.99£82.75The 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 9780714634029Author Harold S... -
Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region by Roberto Aliboni 9780714642208
RRP: £47.99£41.81Contributions to this book question the concept of the clash of cultures. The challenge to the West does not lie in the monolith of Islam turning aggressively outward to Europe and the US, but in the rivalries between regimes ruling over societies... -
Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age by Matthew Hughes 9780714685847
RRP: £43.99£38.44What is fanaticism? Is the term at all useful? After all, one person's fanatic is another's freedom fighter. This new book probves these key questions of the twenty first century. It details how throughout history there have been fanatics eager to... -
The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation Olav Njolstad 9780714685397
RRP: £47.99£42.21The 1980s was a period of almost unprecedented rivalry and tension between the two main actors in the East-West conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union. Why and how that conflict first escalated and thereafter, in an amazingly swift process, was... -
The Waning of Major War: Theories and Debates by Raimo Vayrynen 9780714685885
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and explore whether it is waxing or waning. The main point of departure is that major-power war as a historical institution is in decline. This... -
Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: NATO and EU Options in the Mediterranean and the Middle East Thanos P. Dokos 9780714684994
RRP: £43.99£38.44As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the... -
Russian Military Reform, 1992-2002 Anne C. Aldis 9780714684840
RRP: £47.99£41.81Military reform has featured prominently on the agenda of many countries since the end of the Cold War necessitated a re-evaluation of the strategic role of the armed forces, and nowhere more publicly than in Russia. Not since the 1920s have the Russian... -
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era by John Terence O'Neill 9780714684895
RRP: £45.99£40.13This new study questions whether peacekeeping fundamentally changed between the Cold War and Post-Cold War periods. Focusing on contrasting case studies of the Congo, Cyprus, Somalia and Angola, as well as more recent operations in Sierra Leone and... -
Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective Christopher Bell 9780714684680
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume brings together a set of scholarly, readable and up-to-date essays covering the most significant naval mutinies of the 20th century, including Russia (1905), Brazil (1910), Austria (1918), Germany (1918), France (1918-19), Great Britain... -
Grand Strategy in the War Against Terrorism Thomas R. Mockaitis 9780714682686
RRP: £53.99£46.87This collection of essays examines the strategic dimensions of contemporary terrorist threats. It evaluates the changing nature of modern terrorism in the light of the events of September 11 2001. The collection argues that terrorism now promises to... -
Recovering from Civil Conflict: Reconciliation, Peace and Development by Edward Newman 9780714682679
RRP: £21.99£19.34A number of international contributors emphasize the conceptual and practical challenges facing post-conflict societies and the international community in the management of the transition from civil conflict to peaceful coexistence.Book InformationISBN... -
The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 Peggy Warner 9780714682341
RRP: £120.00£104.61The Russo-Japanese War was fought in the waters of the Yellow Sea and the Straits of Tsushima that divide Japan from Korea, and in the mountains of Manchuria, borrowed without permission from China. It was the first war to be fought with modern weapons... -
The Nature of War in the Information Age: Clausewitzian Future David J. Lonsdale 9780714684291
RRP: £49.99£43.50There has been a great deal of speculation recently concerning the likely impact of the 'Information Age' on warfare. In this vein, much of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) literature subscribes to the idea that the Information Age will witness a... -
Command and Control in Military Crisis: Devious Decisions by Harald Hoiback 9780714684284
RRP: £54.99£47.72Harald Hoiback's study focuses upon two events - the 1918 Allied meeting at Doullens when the Allies ceded control to an officer, and the Norwegian decision in 1940 to leave control in the hands of a colonel which led to the Nazi invasion.Book... -
Prelude to the Easter Rising: Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany Reinhard R. Doerries 9780714680705
RRP: £43.99£38.44Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916.German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against... -
Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945 by Samuel J. Newland 9780714681993
RRP: £53.99£46.87The Cossacks who wore German uniforms saw their service not as treason to the motherland, but as an episode in the revolution of 1917, part of an ongoing struggle against Moscow and against Communism. Their reward was forced repatriation into Stalin's... -
Singapore 1941-1942: Revised Edition Allen Louis 9780714681986
RRP: £53.99£46.87Winston Churchill described the loss of Singapore as the greatest disaster ever to befall British arms. Louis Allen analyzes the remote political causes of the Japanese campaign, gives an account of the events of the campaign, and then attempts to... -
The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions Ken Booth 9780714681269
RRP: £54.99£47.72The 1999 conflict in Kosovo is seen as being as significant for international affairs as the pulling down of the Berlin Wall, because of the centrality of human rights in the build-up, conduct and aftermath of the war. This volume is an attempt to...