International Security Books

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11. Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict

    The Conflict in Pakistan

    By Niaz A Shah

    Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflicts

    Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law. Within this broader framework of compatible application, Niaz A. Shah argues that the Islamic law of qital (i.e. armed...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
12. Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq

    Transforming Military Logistics

    By Christopher Kinsey

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few, if any, of the Coalition's political leaders could have envisaged that within a few months the...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
13. Global Criminology

    Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era

    Edited by K. Jaishankar, Natti Ronel

    Global criminology is an emerging field covering international and transnational crimes that have not traditionally been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. Global Criminology: Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era is a collection of rigorously peer-reviewed papers...

    Published March 24th 2013 by CRC Press
14. Controlling the Weapons of War

    Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

    By Brian Rappert

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
15. A Global Security Triangle

    European, African and Asian interaction

    Edited by Valeria Bello, Belachew Gebrewold

    Series: Routledge/GARNET series

    This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations. The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union into new...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
16. Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding

    Edited by David Chandler, Timothy D. Sisk

    This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
17. Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific Security

    Contending Cooperation

    Edited by William Tow, Brendan Taylor

    Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

    Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation. They argue that multilateral associations such as ASEAN will eventually replace the system of bilateral alliances which were the...

    Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
18. Democracy and Terrorism

    Friend or Foe?

    By Leonard Weinberg

    Series: Political Violence

    This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This struggle has been inspired in part by the belief is that by promoting democracy they will also bring...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
19. Security in the Gulf: Historical Legacies and Future Prospects

    Edited by Matteo Legrenzi

    This book examines Gulf Security in a holistic way seeing past the narrow military aspect and also trying to debunk the conventional narratives propagated by regional and external actors. In particular, the emphasis is be on the historical legacy of Gulf security and the fundamental domestic and...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
20. Regional Disorder

    The South China Sea Disputes

    By Sarah Raine, Christian Le Mière

    Series: Adelphi series

    China’s rise casts a vast and uncertain shadow over the regional balance of power in the Asia Pacific, and nowhere is this clearer than in the South China Sea. The significance of the fraught territorial disputes in this potentially resource-rich sea extends far beyond the small groupings of...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge