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New and Published Books

  1. Chinese Industrial Espionage

    Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation

    By William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon, Anna B. Puglisi

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology. Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated...

    Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Understanding the Intelligence Cycle

    Edited by Mark Phythian

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process. The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central to the study of intelligence. As...

    Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Transatlantic Space Politics

    Competition and Cooperation Above the Clouds

    By Sheng-Chih Wang

    Series: Space Power and Politics

    This book examines transatlantic politics through an analysis of 60 years of US-European strategic interaction in space. The significance of space politics for the study of transatlantic relations receives surprisingly little scholarly attention. As a theatre of interaction, transatlantic space...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Political Economy and Grand Strategy

    A Neoclassical Realist View

    By Mark R. Brawley

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy. The realist view of the balance of power theory includes implicit...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Iran and Nuclear Weapons

    Protracted Conflict and Proliferation

    By Saira Khan

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation. Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Understanding Military Doctrine

    A multidisciplinary approach

    By Harald Hoiback

    Series: Cass Military Studies

    This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era

    By Elizabeth Chadwick

    Series: Routledge Research in International Law

    This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency distorts the laws of armed conflict and of peace alike. As inter-state anti-terrorist...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Survival 55.2

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Asia’s Power Dynamics

    Military Change and its Geopolitical Effects

    By Desmond Ball, Raja Mohan, Tim Huxley, Adam Ward

    Series: Adelphi series

    This Adelphi examines defence procurement in Asia against a backdrop of the region’s fragmented security infrastructure. The overlapping alliances, multilateral bodies and regional dialogues are ill-equipped to respond to the changing balance of power, since there is no unified forum through which...

    Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Soviet Air Force Theory, 1918-1945

    By James Sterrett

    Series: Soviet (Russian) Study of War

    This new book examines the development of Soviet thinking on the operational employment of their Air Force from 1918 to 1945, using Soviet theoretical writings and contemporary analyses of combat actions....

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge