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Geoproperty: Foreign Affairs, National Security and Property Rights by Geoff Demarest
RRP: £47.99£41.81Some innovations create new strategic property and new conflicts. Demarest argues that we have not reached the end of history and modern man will continue to fight over property as before, but the property will be of a post-modern character, such as... -
Russia at a Crossroads: History, Memory and Political Practice by Nurit Schleifman
RRP: £32.99£29.16The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which... -
The National Security of Small States in a Changing World by Efraim Inbar
RRP: £53.99£47.27The first part of this book is primarily devoted to analysing the impact of the system of international relations on the fortunes of small states. The second part discusses the question 'what changes in the national strategy of small states are necessary... -
Justifying America's Wars: The Conduct and Practice of US Military Intervention by Nicholas Kerton-Johnson
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author undertakes an examination of presidential speeches and public documents from... -
Reimagining War in the 21st Century: From Clausewitz to Network-Centric Warfare by Manabrata Guha
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'. In light of the emerging theories and doctrines of Network-Centric... -
Studies in Gangs and Cartels by Robert J. Bunker
RRP: £91.99£80.20Concerns over the changing nature of gangs and cartels and their relationships to states in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has resulted in the emergence of a scholarly body of work focused on their national security threat potentials. This body... -
Regional Powers and Security Orders: A Theoretical Framework by Robert Stewart-Ingersoll
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book presents a new theoretical framework through which to understand the role of regional powers in creating and maintaining regional security orders. As a result of the retreat of the global powers since the end of the Cold War, it has become... -
The European Union's Fight Against Terrorism: The CFSP and Beyond by Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira
RRP: £86.99£75.54This book contributes to the understanding of the counter-terrorism (CT) policy of the European Union (EU) by offering a set of analyses focusing on its external dimension. Whilst calling for the combination of internal and external policies as well as... -
International Conflict Management Michael J. Butler (Clark University, USA) 9780415772303
RRP: £45.99£40.13This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the five major approaches of the growing field of international conflict management: traditional peacekeepingpeace enforcement and... -
The Just War Tradition: Applying Old Ethics to New Problems by Davis Brown
RRP: £135.00£117.28This collection examines the role of the just war tradition and its criteria in solving pressing present-day challenges. In particular, it deals with three types of challenges to world public order. One is anticipatory self-defense, in which one state... -
Iraq's Sunni Insurgency Ahmed S. Hashim 9780415466554
RRP: £24.99£21.81From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. This paper explains the onset, composition and evolution of this insurgency. It begins by addressing both... -
Where is Nato Going? by Martin Smith
RRP: £28.99£25.09Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11 2001, the future of NATO has been the subject of intense debate. This book brings together a group of international relations specialists in order to offer fresh perspectives on the... -
Peace without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia by David Chandler
RRP: £43.99£38.44Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of the political, social and economic environment of the tiny state. This state of affairs is highlighted by the fact... -
Conflict Management and Resolution: An Introduction Ho-Won Jeong 9780415450416
RRP: £43.99£38.44Conflict Management and Resolution provides students with an overview of the main theories of conflict management and conflict resolution, and will equip them to respond to the complex phenomena of international conflict. The book covers these four key... -
Repairing the Damage: Possibilities and Limits of Transatlantic Consensus by Dana H. Allin
RRP: £26.99£23.46The damage that has been done to the transatlantic alliance will not be repaired through grand architectural redesigns or radical new agendas. Instead, the transatlantic partners need to restore their consensus and cooperation on key security challenges... -
Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651: 'The Genius of this Age' Stanley D.M. Carpenter 9780415407908
RRP: £43.99£38.44Despite the wealth of British Civil Wars studies, little work addresses the nature of military leadership effectiveness in terms of the eventual result -parliamentary victory. It is no longer sufficient to credit religion, economics, localism or... -
Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Revolution in Accountability by Chandra Lekha Sriram
RRP: £135.00£117.28This 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... -
The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia by Tim Donais
RRP: £53.99£46.87A fresh examination of the political economy of the peacebuilding process in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the aftermath of the country's 1992-95 war. Little progress has been made in transforming the country's war-shattered economy into a functioning market... -
Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East: Strategic Contest by Richard L. Russell
RRP: £135.00£117.28This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East. It examines the uses and limitations of chemical... -
The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty Talbot C. Imlay 9780415366977
RRP: £53.99£46.87How do we plan under conditions of uncertainty? The perspective of military planners is a key organizing framework: do they see themselves as preparing to administer a peace, or preparing to fight a future war? Most interwar volumes examine only the... -
Peace without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia by David Chandler
RRP: £135.00£117.28Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of the political, social and economic environment of the tiny state. This state of affairs is highlighted by the fact... -
Realism and World Politics Ken Booth 9780415570589
RRP: £43.99£38.84This book contributes to the rethinking of realism through multiple analyses of the keys works of Kenneth Waltz, arguing that a sophisticated appreciation of realism is needed to truly understand world politics and International Relations.Bringing... -
Private Military and Security Companies: Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations Andrew Alexandra 9780415570305
RRP: £43.99£38.44Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality... -
The Future of Sea Power by Eric Grove
£106.61This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy. It analyses the lessons of twentieth-century naval warfare and examines in detail the changing face of naval warfare, both in terms of the weapons used and the... -
Building Peace: Feminist Perspectives by Laura J. Shepherd
RRP: £43.99£38.44Moving seamlessly from the global to the local, from the politics of institutions to the theoretical apparatus through which we analyse peace and security governance, the contributions to this volume draw attention to the operations of gendered power in... -
Security Sector Reform: Issues, Challenges and Prospects by Jane Chanaa
RRP: £24.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198516743Author Jane ChanaaFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 113g -
Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia by Neil Joeck
RRP: £24.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198294061Author Neil JoeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 499g -
Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia by H. Berstein
RRP: £64.99£56.14First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780714634678Author H. BersteinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
The Role of the G8 in International Peace and Security by Risto Penttila
RRP: £24.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198528913Author Risto PenttilaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 499g -
In The Ypres Salient: The Story Of A Fortnight's Canadian Fighting by Henry Beckles Willson
RRP: £9.99£7.11This short book by historian and journalist Beckles Willson is in memory to the Canadians who fought during the Great War around Hooge, near Ypres at the Battle of Mont Sorrel in 1916. The Battle of Mount Sorrel lasted for almost two weeks and cost the... -
Swordplay: An anonymous illustrated Dutch treatise for fencing with rapier, sword and polearms from 1595 Reinier Van Noort 9781937439262
RRP: £31.00£29.43This short text with beautiful watercolour illustrations dates from 1595, and details fencing with the single sword, rapier and dagger, rapier and buckler, halberd, and full pike. Schermkunst is one of the oldest known martial arts treatises from the Low... -
Royal Jousts at the End of the Fourteenth Century Steven Muhlberger 9781937439019
RRP: £22.50£21.05Few images of chivalry are stronger in the popular mind than that of two armoured knights in a joust, crashing together astride their chargers. Yet, considering the importance of formal combat to the medieval aristocracy, we possess surprisingly few... -
A Political History of the Civil War in Angola, 1974-1990 W. Martin James III 9781412815062
RRP: £43.99£38.44When Portugal's colonial rule in Angola ended in 1974, three liberation groups-UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), and MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of... -
Transnational Organized Crime and Jihadist Terrorism: Russian-Speaking Networks in Western Europe by Michael Fredholm
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book describes and analyzes the convergence of transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism that has taken place within Russian-speaking social networks in Western Europe.Studies have shown that while under certain circumstances links... -
Volunteers of the Empire: War, Identity, and Spanish Imperialism, 1855-1898 by Fernando J. Padilla Angulo
£93.44This book uncovers the history of The Volunteers, a Spanish loyalist militia who were committed to upholding Spanish imperial interests and influence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo and The Philippines as the age of empire came to a close. Unpicking... -
Outer Space - Battlefield of the Future? by Sipri
RRP: £31.99£28.33This book, first published in 1978, examines the military use of space - around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were military ones. The satellites were for military communications, weather prediction, navigation, photographic and electronic... -
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific by Walter R. Borneman
£19.80World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the military strategy that Walter R... -
Lord Methuen and the British Army: Failure and Redemption in South Africa Stephen M. Miller 9780714644608
RRP: £47.99£41.81This study analyzes the readiness of the British military establishment for war in 1899 and its performance in the South African War (1899-1902). It focuses on the career of Field Marshal Paul Sanford, 3rd Baron Methuen, whose traditional military... -
The Military and Domestic Politics: A Concordance Theory of Civil-Military Relations by Rebecca L. Schiff
RRP: £125.00£107.86The intervention of the military in national politics and the everyday lives of citizens is a key question in civil-military relations. This book explains how concordance theory can provide a model for predicting such domestic intervention. Models... -
The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862: Revenge, Military Law and the Judgment of History John A. Haymond 9781476665108
RRP: £28.99£24.05The U.S.-Dakota War, the bloodiest Indian war of the 19th century, erupted in southwestern Minnesota during the the summer of 1862. In the war's aftermath, a hastily convened commission of five army officers conducted trials of 391 Indians charged with...