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Reading Clausewitz by Beatrice Heuser 9780712664844
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Contemporaries found him 'endearing' or 'totally unpalatable', while later... -
Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union? by Beatrice Heuser
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.23Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but... -
War, Peace and World Orders in European History by Beatrice Heuser
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book explores a new way for students of International Relations to look at war, peace and world orders throughout European history. The contributors argue that the predominant 'realist' paradigm... -
Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: National Styles and Strategic Cultures by Beatrice Heuser
Booksplease Price: £30.55This book is a major new study of the extent to which national mentalities, or 'ways of war', are responsible for 'national styles' of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Leading scholars examine the... -
War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices by Beatrice Heuser 9780198796893
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £38.43War has been conceptualised from a military perspective, but also from ethical, legal, and philosophical viewpoints. These different analytical perspectives are all necessary to understand the many... -
The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present by Beatrice Heuser
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.69Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers... -
Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: National Styles and Strategic Cultures by Beatrice Heuser 9781107135048
Booksplease Price: £102.19This book is a major new study of the extent to which national mentalities, or 'ways of war', are responsible for 'national styles' of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Leading scholars examine the... -
Nuclear Mentalities?: Strategies and Beliefs in Britain, France and the FRG by Beatrice Heuser 9780333693896
Booksplease Price: £92.27Concepts associated with nuclear strategy often go beyond any 'objective' logic of deterrence. Nuclear weapons have special roles in different national belief-systems, myths surround them, they have... -
The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present by Beatrice Heuser 9780521199681
Booksplease Price: £116.90Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers... -
Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions Beatrice Heuser 9781509566693
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53Why did Volodymyr Zelensky doubt that Russia was preparing a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022? Why did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decide to "do business with Herr Hitler" in... -
The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz by Beatrice Heuser 9780275998264
Booksplease Price: £51.21This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century... -
Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions Beatrice Heuser 9781509566709
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Why did Volodymyr Zelensky doubt that Russia was preparing a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022? Why did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decide to "do business with Herr Hitler" in... -
NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000 by Beatrice Heuser 9780312174989
Booksplease Price: £91.38Containing the histories (from 1945 to the present) of the nuclear strategies of NATO, Britain and France, and of the defence preferences of the FRG (West Germany), this book shows how strategies... -
Small Wars and Insurgencies in Theory and Practice, 1500-1850 Beatrice Heuser (University of Reading, UK) 9781138299788
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In early modern times, warfare in Europe took on many diverse and overlapping forms. Our modern notions of 'regular' and 'irregular' warfare, of 'major war' and 'small war', have their roots in much... -
Strategy Before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830 Beatrice Heuser (University of Reading, UK) 9781138290914
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.There is a... -
The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context by D. B. G. Heuser 9780582292901
Booksplease Price: £47.29This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has... -
Haunted by History: Myths in International Relations Cyrill Buffet 9781571819406
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46Europe is a continent weighed down by the shadows of its past, its wars, the traditional enmities, the suspicions of neighbours fuelled by historical memories. This has immediate consequences for the... -
War, Peace and World Orders in European History by Anja V. Hartmann
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This book explores a new way for students of International Relations to look at war, peace and world orders throughout European history. The contributors argue that the predominant 'realist' paradigm... -
Russian Civil-Military Relations: Putin's Legacy by Thomas Gomart 9780870032417
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £13.48This perceptive and well-informed study highlights the continuity of the Russian (civilian and military) security community's distrust of the outside world, fueled by NATO enlargement. Communism may... -
State Sovereignty: Change and Persistence in International Relations by Sohail H. Hashmi 9780271016979
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.07In what ways is the concept of sovereignty changing today? Where is this change leading us - toward further international integration or toward greater subnational fragmentation? What will be the... -
Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War Gudrun Persson 9781647126384
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.21Novel insights into Russian military thought-from the Crimean War to the war in UkraineThe development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in... -
Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War Gudrun Persson 9781647126377
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £70.47Novel insights into Russian military thought-from the Crimean War to the war in UkraineThe development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in... -
Clausewitz and Contemporary War by Antulio J. Echevarria II 9780199676170
Booksplease Price: £36.30While many scholars agree that Clausewitz's On War is frequently misunderstood, almost none have explored his methodology to see whether it might enhance our understanding of his concepts. This book... -
Military Strategy: A Global History by Jeremy Black
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years Strategy has existed as long as there... -
Rebels and Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise and Decline in Violence by Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Booksplease Price: £82.70Violence during war often involves upswings and downturns that have, to date, been insufficiently explained. Why does violence at a particular point in time increase in intensity and why do actors in... -
Harfleur to Hamburg: Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe by D. J. B. Trim 9781911723172
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.17Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international norms, at least in its relations with western powers. This has often been contrasted with the violence perpetrated in colonial... -
Vicarious Warfare: American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap by Thomas Waldman 9781529206999
Booksplease Price: £29.69America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the... -
An Introduction to War Studies Michael S. Goodman 9781035360505
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.27Commemorating 60 years of War Studies at King's College London, this incisive and adroitly crafted book acts as a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of war, conflict and... -
Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO by Janne Haaland Matlary
Booksplease Price: £20.10What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards,... -
Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO by Janne Haaland Matlary 9781787383913
Booksplease Price: £43.19What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards,... -
An Introduction to War Studies by Michael S. Goodman 9781802203318
Booksplease Price: £112.11Commemorating 60 years of War Studies at King's College London, this incisive and adroitly crafted book acts as a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of war, conflict and... -
Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453 Bernard S. Bachrach (University of Minnesota, USA) 9780367470197
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Warfare in Medieval Europe, now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the... -
Maritime Strategy and Global Order: Markets, Resources, Security by Daniel Moran 9781626160729
RRP: £29.50Booksplease Price: £27.80Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In... -
A Farewell to Wars: The Growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force by Hans Blix 9781009392556
Booksplease Price: £75.13Since World War II, there has been a trend towards fewer wars, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine standing as a major 'aberration'. With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat... -
War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict by James Gow 9781849040945
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an... -
Maritime Strategy and Global Order: Markets, Resources, Security by Daniel Moran 9781626163003
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £79.39Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In... -
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain's success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and... -
Order Wars and Floating Balance: How the Rising Powers Are Reshaping Our Worldview in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Herberg-Rothe
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63A sense of order has irreversibly retreated at the turn of the twenty-first century with the rise of such ancient civilizations as China and India and the militant resurgence of Islamic groups. The... -
Cold War Europe: The Politics of a Contested Continent by Mark Gilbert 9781442219854
Booksplease Price: £51.20This compelling history of Europe's Cold War follows the dramatic arc of the conflict that shaped the development of the continent and defined world politics in the second half of the twentieth... -
Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War Tim Sweijs 9781805265993
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked a major shift in thinking about the future of war. This book offers a comprehensive examination of its impact on visions of conflict. War in the...