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This 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...

This new volume explores terrorism and strategic terror, examining how the public responds to terrorist attacks, and what authorities can do in such situations.The book uses a unique interdisciplinary approach, which combines the behavioural sciences and...

This new volume provides the first thorough examination of the involvement of peace enforcement soldiers in the detention of indicted war criminals. The book firstly addresses why peace enforcement missions need to be involved in detaining indicted...

There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets. This edited volume critically assesses the suggestion that one safeguard against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198294276Author Jennifer AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198294023Author Chikahito HaradaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198516781Author Neil MacfarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198515272Author Dennis M. GormleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198568414Author William WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198528357Author Richard BitzingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 190g

Edward Riou (1762-1801) was a sea officer in the British Royal Navy. As a midshipman, he participated in the third voyage of Captain James Cook. He gained popular acclaim for saving HMS Guardian after she had struck an iceberg. Riou was killed in the...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781857531114Author Mathias JoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, few Ottomans anticipated that it would prove to be a watershed moment for the Empire, ending in ignominy, national catastrophe, and the loss of its remaining provinces in the Balkans. Defeat at the...

The Mehdi Army militia was a towering force in Iraq during the early years of the post-Saddam era. As an aggressive opponent of foreign occupation and one of the principal antagonists in Iraq's brutal sectarian civil war, the militia was central to the...

Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were shaped. But how have perspectives on warfare changed? How similar are present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578595099Author Samuel Willard CromptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink PressWeight(grams) 933g

'From now on, all men operating against German troops in so-called Commando raids are to be annihilated.' Adolf HitlerThis infamous edict was Hitler's response to the actions of the Commandos, a daring new guerrilla force led by eccentrics and idealists...

Mention of this Derbyshire market town's name invariably conjures up an image of an iconic landmark: the crooked church steeple. However, it also speaks of a military heritage built up over two millenia. The word chester itself is derived from the...

Dudley attempts to impose a pattern on the entire history of human civilization. He shows how the major transformations in the character of social life have been determined by eight significant innovations: four new ways of dealing with information -...

War and such crises are seen as aberrations in the history and development of democracy - a time when otherwise unacceptable constraints can be imposed on the ordinary man with little or no dissent. The reasoning behind this is questioned in this book,...

This book, first published in 1982, is a systematic and detached analysis of the 60,000 British conscientious objectors in the Second World War, forming an examination of the relationship between the individual and the State in time of war. It sets out...

In this edited book, leading scholars and analysts trace the origins, evolution and the current state of Indo-US strategic cooperation. During the Cold War, owing to opposing grand strategies, the two states frequently found themselves at odds. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199290017Author Hilary SynnottFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 140g

This book explores the barrack experiences of soldiers in post-independence Zimbabwe, examining the concept of military professionalism within a state in political crisis. Drawing upon interviews with former soldiers of the Zimbabwe National Army,...

The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), launched initiated by US President Bush in May 2003, was designed to prevent elements of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from reaching or leaving states or sub-state actors of proliferation concern. More...

The military is supposed to stand aside from British society. This book illustrates that from the earliest times the British have relied on the military for the preservation of law and order. The creation of the professional police force in Britain...

Is global climate change likely to become a significant source of violent conflict, and should it therefore be seen as a national security challenge? Most Northern governments, militaries, think tanks and NGOs believe so, as do many academic researchers,...

This title was first published in 1975.Book InformationISBN 9781138896437Author Li Yu-NingFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

This book explores the interrelationship between terrorism and policy relevance from a range of critical perspectives. In particular, it questions the politics of policy-relevance; that is, it interrogates how epistemological and practical pressures to...

This volume consists of a book and downloadable resources containing a facsimile collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to critical developments regarding Berlin, its quadripartite administration, and role in the Cold War during...

Like the industrial revolution before it, the information technology revolution appears to be creating a new ruling class, a new economy and a new society. Information technology is also transforming military operations and warfare. A vast literature on...

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism. In a growing number of cases, people aren't rejecting and relegating democracy because it's bad; they're challenging it because it isn't relevant to their priorities and needs. The...

This book opens up the discussion of the interrelation between terrorism studies, and peace and conflict studies. Even though it is often accepted that terrorism is a form of political violence, it is also quite frequent that research on the topic is...

Recent 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...

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control.During times of war, sea control, or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance, plays a crucial role in that side's ability to attain overall...

Wlodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Gorny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916...

The Royal Navy at the start of the twenty-first century had undergone the most remarkable transformation. The Fleet is today the smallest since the start of the Napoleonic wars as surface vessels are no longer viable as a principal line of defence. That...

This new book covers the famed World War Luftwaffe fighter on a variety of war fronts from Poland and France, through the Battle of Britain and the Russian front.Book InformationISBN 9780764340505Author Rudolf HoeflingFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint...

Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making. Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role...

This is a new examination of Halford Mackinder's seminal global geostrategic work, from the perspective of geography, diplomatic history, political science, international relations, imperial history, and the space age.Mackinder was a man ahead of his...