Air Power Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Space Strategy in the 21st Century

   Theory and Policy

   Edited by Eligar Sadeh

   Series: Space Power and Politics

   This book offers an overview of space strategy in the 21st century. The purpose of space strategy is to coordinate, integrate, and prioritize space activities across security, commercial, and civil sectors. Without strategy, space activities continue to provide value, but it becomes difficult to...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Chinese Space Policy

   A Study in Domestic and International Politics

   By Roger Handberg, Zhen Li

   Series: Space Power and Politics

   This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program. It opens by tracing out the earlier development of the...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. General Aviation Security

   Aircraft, Hangars, Fixed-Base Operations, Flight Schools, and Airports

   By Daniel J. Benny, Ph.D

   After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.S. government, media, and the public was on security at commercial airports and aboard commercial airlines. Soon, investigation revealed the hijackers had trained at flight schools operating out of general aviation airports, leading to a huge outcry by the...

   Published August 15th 2012 by CRC Press
6. Space Policy in Developing Countries

   The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier

   By Robert Harding

   Series: Space Power and Politics

   This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world. Space was at one time the sole domain of the wealthiest developed countries. However, the last couple of decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century have...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in Airspace and Outer Space

   Legal Criteria for Spatial Delimitation

   By Gbenga Oduntan

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   Sovereignty and jurisdiction are legal doctrines of a complex nature, which have been subject to differing interpretations by scholars in legal literature. The tridimensionality of state territory recognised under customary international law subsists until the present but there are other...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Space and Defense Policy

   Edited by Damon Coletta, Frances T. Pilch

   Series: Space Power and Politics

   This edited volume introduces the reader to the role of space in military and defense strategy, and outlines some of the major foreign and domestic actors in the space arena, as well as constraints of law and treaties on activities in space. It also addresses science and technology as they relate...

   Published January 14th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Psychology of Strategic Terrorism

   Public and Government Responses to Attack

   By Ben Sheppard

   Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies

   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 international relations, in order to...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
10. Strategic Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo, Joseph A. Maiolo

    This new Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors in the field. Filling a large gap in the market, it will guide students through both the theoretical and practical aspects of Strategic Studies. Including classic essays and works of contemporary...

    Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge