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  1. Network Centric Warfare and Coalition Operations

    The New Military Operating System

    By Paul T. Mitchell

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book argues that Network Centric Warfare (NCW) influences how developed militaries operate in the same fashion that an operating system influences the development of computer software. It examines three inter-related issues: the overwhelming military power of the United States; the growing...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Security and Everyday Life

    Edited by Vida Bajc, Willem de Lint

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    When everyday social situations and cultural phenomena come to be associated with a threat to security, security becomes a value which competes with other values – particularly the right to privacy and human rights. In this comparison, security appears as an obvious choice over the loss of some...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

    Digging moats and sinking boats

    By Scott D. Watson

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. The United States and NATO since 9/11

    The Transatlantic Alliance Renewed

    By Ellen Hallams

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration, but also the belief that US operational freedom and flexibility had been hampered during NATO’s two Balkans...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  5. Securitizations of Citizenship

    Edited by Peter Nyers

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Securitizations of Citizenship investigates how the fate of citizenship is now caught up in a dramatic and dangerous process of securitizing political communities. In the nervous state of affairs of the post-9/11 period, technologies of surveillance and control are rapidly proliferating, creating...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  6. Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa

    Civil society and peace building in ethnic-national states

    By Amneh Badran

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states – South Africa and Israel – which have been in conflict, and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  7. United Nations Reform

    Heading North or South?

    By Spencer Zifcak

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines recent attempts at reform within the United Nations in the wake of the institutional crisis provoked by the invasion of Iraq. It contends that efforts at reform have foundered owing to fundamental and bitter political disagreements between the nations of the global North and...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  8. The Transformation of UN Conflict Management

    Producing images of genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and beyond

    By Touko Piiparinen

    Series: Routledge Research on International Organisations

    The world has vowed "Never again" in memory of the 800,000 Rwandans and other groups slaughtered by génocidaires. Yet, ever since the Holocaust, the international community has repeatedly betrayed its pledge, most notably in 1994 with regard to the Rwandan Tutsi, and again ten years later in Darfur...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  9. Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’

    Motives, Mobilization and Meanings

    Edited by Sally Cummings

    Series: ThirdWorlds

    In early 2005 regional protests in Kyrgyzstan soon became national ones as protesters seized control of the country’s capital, Bishkek. The country’s president for fifteen years, Askar Akaev, fled the country and after a night of extensive looting, a new president, Kurmanbek Bakiev, came to power....

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  10. Risk, Global Governance and Security

    The Other War on Terror

    By Yee-Kuang Heng, Ken McDonagh

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book applies risk society theory to the 'War on Terror', steering the discussion away from the militaristic discourse of the Bush era towards an emphasis on global cooperation and a new cosmopolitan agenda. The literature and rhetoric of the 'War on Terror' has been dominated by dramatic...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge