Military, Strategic, and Security Studies Research

Crime-Terror Alliances and the State

Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

By Lyubov Mincheva, Ted Robert Gurr

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate. "Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in...

Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge

Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy

A new framework for analysis

By Johannes Gullestad Rø

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making. Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental...

To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge

Understanding Emerging Security Challenges

Threats and Opportunities

By Ashok Swain

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed...

Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century

Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest

By Erwan Lagadec

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century. The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have...

Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge

The EU, the UN and Collective Security

Making Multilateralism Effective

Edited by Joachim Krause, Natalino Ronzitti

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the effectiveness of multilateralism in ensuring collective security and, in particular, the EU’s role in this process. In 1992, shortly after the end of the Cold War, a Security Council Summit in New York reaffirmed the salience of the system of collective security and stated...

Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge

European Homeland Security

A European Strategy in the Making?

Edited by Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard, Patryk Pawlak

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration. The EU functions in a complex security environment, with perceived security threats from Islamist terrorists, migration...

Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge

Aggression, Crime and International Security

Moral, Political and Legal Dimensions of International Relations

By Page Wilson

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations. This book analyses the evolution of the concept of aggression in international relations from World...

Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge

Multipolarity in the 21st Century

A New World Order

Edited by Donette Murray, David Brown

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do. As the twenty-first century moves out of its first decade, American supremacy...

Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge

Understanding NATO in the 21st Century

Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance

Edited by Graeme P. Herd, John Kriendler

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO’s potential evolution in the 21st century. The book seeks to identify the possible contours and trade-offs embedded within a potential third "Transatlantic Bargain...

Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge

Russian Imperialism Revisited

Neo-Empire, State Interests and Hegemonic Power

By Domitilla Sagramoso

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

By examining Russia’s military, economic, political, and diplomatic policies towards the former Soviet states since 1991, this book assesses whether Russian leaders have been able to discard the country’s imperial legacy....

To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

International Law, Security and Ethics

Policy Challenges in the post-9/11 World

Edited by Aidan Hehir, Natasha Kuhrt, Andrew Mumford

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the different ways in which the laws governing the use of force and the conduct of warfare have become subject to intense scrutiny and contestation since the initiation of the war on terror. Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of security challenges has changed radically...

Published April 18th 2011 by Routledge

War, Ethics and Justice

New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World

Edited by Annika Bergman-Rosamond, Mark Phythian

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world. There is a lively debate in contemporary international relations concerning the relationship between statist obligations to one’s own political community and cosmopolitan duties to...

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

Women, Peace and Security

Translating Policy into Practice

Edited by Funmi Olonisakin, Karen Barnes, Eka Ikpe

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries. UN Resolution 1325 was adopted in October 2000, and was the first time that the security concerns of...

Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge

US Foreign Policy and Iran

American-Iranian Relations since the Islamic Revolution

By Donette Murray

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

US Foreign Policy and Iran is a study of US foreign policy decision-making in relation to Iran and its implications for Middle Eastern relations. It offers a new assessment of US-Iranian relations by exploring the rationale, effectiveness and consequences of American policy towards Iran from the...

Published July 18th 2010 by Routledge

Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force

Stability Missions in the Post-Cold War Era

By Chiyuki Aoi

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. In the success of stability operations, legitimacy is key. In order to achieve success, the intervening force must create a sense of...

Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge

Justifying America's Wars

The Conduct and Practice of US Military Intervention

By Nicholas Kerton-Johnson

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author undertakes an examination of presidential speeches and public documents from this period to determine the focal points on...

Published July 22nd 2010 by Routledge

Territory, War, and Peace

By John A. Vasquez, Marie T. Henehan

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book presents a collection of new and updated essays on what has come to be known as the territorial explanation of war. The book argues that a key both to peace and to war lies in understanding the role territory plays as a source of conflict and inter-group violence. Of all the issues that...

Published July 11th 2010 by Routledge

Transitional Justice, Peace and Accountability

Outreach and the Role of International Courts after Conflict

By Jessica Lincoln

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice. This book critically examines the role of outreach within international justice focusing specifically on the role of outreach at the...

Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

Rethinking Security Governance

The Problem of Unintended Consequences

Edited by Christopher Daase, Cornelius Friesendorf

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book explores the unintended consequences of security governance actions and explores how their effects can be limited. Security governance describes new modes of security policy that differ from traditional approaches to national and international security. While traditional security policy...

Published April 27th 2010 by Routledge

Russia's Foreign Security Policy in the 21st Century

Putin, Medvedev and Beyond

By Marcel De Haas

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines Russia’s external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond.The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia’s background in the former Soviet Union as well as close...

Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge

Private Security Contractors and New Wars

Risk, Law, and Ethics

By Kateri Carmola

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding ‘service’ industry will have to be adjusted. In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan many of those who carry weapons are not...

Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge

US Hegemony and International Legitimacy

Norms, Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq

By Lavina Rajendram Lee

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq. The preference for unilateral action in foreign policy under the Bush Administration, culminating in the use of force against Iraq in 2003, has unquestionably...

Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge

Global Biosecurity

Threats and Responses

Edited by Peter Katona, John P. Sullivan, Michael D. Intriligator

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases,...

Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge

US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda

Signalling and the Terrorist World-View

By Joshua A. Geltzer

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda. Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what...

Published September 8th 2009 by Routledge

The EU and the European Security Order

Interfacing Security Actors

By Rikard Bengtsson

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security. Drawing on constructivist theory, the framework of the book focuses on the meeting - or 'interface' - of actors, a situation reflecting the mutual construction of self, other and situation. The analytical...

Published July 13th 2009 by Routledge

Legitimising the Use of Force in International Politics

Kosovo, Iraq and the Ethics of Intervention

By Corneliu Bjola

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book aims to examine the conditions under which the decision to use force can be reckoned as legitimate in international relations. Drawing on communicative action theory, it provides a provocative answer to the hotly contested question of how to understand the legitimacy of the use of force...

Published July 8th 2009 by Routledge

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 July 5th 2009 by Routledge

European Security Governance

The European Union in a Westphalian World

Edited by Charlotte Wagnsson, James Sperling, Jan Hallenberg

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU. The EU approach to security governance has been successful in its immediate neighbourhood: it has successfully...

Published May 6th 2009 by Routledge

Clinton's Foreign Policy

Between the Bushes, 1992-2000

By John Dumbrell

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume is a detailed account of President Clinton's foreign policy during 1992-2000, covering the main substantive issues of his administration, including Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo. The book emphasizes Clinton's adaptation of the elder Bush's 'New World Order' outlook and his relationship to...

Published March 26th 2009 by Routledge

Justice, Intervention, and Force in International Relations

Reassessing Just War Theory in the 21st Century

By Kimberly A. Hudson

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book analyses the problems of current just war theory, and offers a more stable justificatory framework for non-intervention in international relations. The primary purpose of just war theory is to provide a language and a framework by which decision makers and citizens...

Published March 2nd 2009 by Routledge

Women and Political Violence

Female Combatants in Ethno-National Conflict

By Miranda Alison

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conflicts. Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been...

Published February 4th 2009 by Routledge

America and Iraq

Policy-making, Intervention and Regional Politics

Edited by David Ryan, Patrick Kiely

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of...

Published December 18th 2008 by Routledge

European Security in a Global Context

Internal and External Dynamics

Edited by Thierry Tardy

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China...

Published December 9th 2008 by Routledge

War, Torture and Terrorism

Rethinking the Rules of International Security

Edited by Anthony F. Lang, Jr., Amanda Russell Beattie

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book seeks to demonstrate how rules not only guide a variety of practices within international politics but also contribute to the chaos and tension on the part of agents in light of the structures they sustain. Four central themes- practice, legitimacy, regulation, and responsibility- reflect...

Published October 16th 2008 by Routledge

NATO, Security and Risk Management

From Kosovo to Khandahar

By M.J. Williams

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new volume explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book offers a unified theory of cooperation in the new security paradigm to explain the current state of transatlantic relations and NATO’s failure to...

Published October 7th 2008 by Routledge

Globalisation and Defence in the Asia-Pacific

Arms Across Asia

Edited by Geoffrey Till, Emrys Chew, Joshua Ho

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific region. The work is structured into three main parts. The first explores globalization and its general effects on the policy-making of the nation-state;...

Published October 2nd 2008 by Routledge

Security Strategies and American World Order

Lost Power

By Birthe Hansen, Peter Toft, Anders Wivel

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book analyses security strategies in the American world order, systematically comparing Russian, Middle Eastern and European policies. The main finding is that the loss of relative power has decisive importance for the security strategies of states, but that particular strategies can only be...

Published October 2nd 2008 by Routledge

Cyber-Conflict and Global Politics

Edited by Athina Karatzogianni

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to cyberconflict and its implications for global security and politics. Taking a multidimensional approach to current debates in internet politics, the book comprises essays by leading experts from across the world. The volume includes...

Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge

Military Transformation and Strategy

Revolutions in Military Affairs and Small States

Edited by Bernard Loo

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book explores the idea of a ‘revolution in military affairs’ (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states. The strategic studies literature on the RMA tends to be American-centric and directed towards the strategic...

Published August 20th 2008 by Routledge

Peace Operations and International Criminal Justice

Building Peace after Mass Atrocities

By Majbritt Lyck

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new volume provides the first thorough examination of the involvement of peace enforcement soldiers in the detention of indicted war criminals. The book firstly addresses why peace enforcement missions need to be involved in detaining indicted war criminals. This discussion includes an...

Published July 28th 2008 by Routledge

The Homeland Security Dilemma

Fear, Failure and the Future of American Insecurity

By Frank P. Harvey

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book explores the paradox of the ‘security dilemma’ in International Relations, as applied to the post-9/11 context of homeland security. The book's central argument can be summed up by the following counterintuitive thesis: the more security you have, the more security you will need. It...

Published July 3rd 2008 by Routledge

Democracy and Security

Preferences, Norms and Policy-Making

Edited by Matthew Evangelista, Harald Muller, Niklas Schoernig

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

It has become generally accepted wisdom that democracies do not go to war against each other. However, there are significant differences between democratic states in terms of their approach to war and security policy in general. This edited book offers a broad examination of how democratic...

Published June 30th 2008 by Routledge

Intra-State Conflict, Governments and Security

Dilemmas of Deterrence and Assurance

Edited by Stephen M. Saideman, Marie-Joelle J. Zahar

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume seeks to understand the central role of governments in intra-state conflicts. The book explores how the government in any society plays two pivotal roles: as a deterrent against those who would use violence; and as a potential danger to the society. These roles come into conflict with...

Published May 28th 2008 by Routledge

Punishment, Justice and International Relations

Ethics and Order after the Cold War

By Anthony F. Lang Jr.

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the international political order in the post-Cold War era, arguing that this order has become progressively more punitive. This is seen as resulting from both a human-rights regime that emphasizes legal norms and the aggressive policies of the United States and its allies in the...

Published April 29th 2008 by Routledge

Russian Energy Policy and Military Power

Putin's Quest for Greatness

By Pavel K. Baev

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the interplay between energy policy and security policy under Vladimir Putin, and his drive to re-establish Russia’s ‘greatness’. Assessing the internal contradictions of this policy, the book argues that Russia’s desire to strengthen its role of ‘energy security’ provider is...

Published February 13th 2008 by Routledge

America, the EU and Strategic Culture

Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain

By Asle Toje

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the lessons learnt in interacting with America have been crucial in shaping the emerging EU strategic culture. The book...

Published January 30th 2008 by Routledge

Causes and Consequences of International Conflict

Data, Methods and Theory

Edited by Glenn Palmer

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Investigation into the causes of international conflict has in many ways formed the central locus of the early work in the scientific investigation of world politics. This edited volume contains the most recent quantitative work in this area, reflecting the current state of the field in the topics...

Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge

European Union and Strategy

An Emerging Actor

Edited by Kjell Engelbrekt, Jan Hallenberg

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper. The book has a two-fold agenda, exploring current EU external policies that are, or...

Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge

Security and the War on Terror

Edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies, Richard Devetak

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point in international politics, representing a new type of threat that could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based structures of security alone. Opening up interdisciplinary conversations between strategic, economic,...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge

Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

NATO and EU Options in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

By Thanos P. Dokos

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge

War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice

The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremburg Legacy

By Madoka Futamura

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Advocates of the ‘Nuremberg legacy’ emphasize the positive impact of the individualization of responsibility and the establishment of an historical record through judicial procedures for ‘war crimes’. This legacy has been cited in the context of the establishment and operation of the UN ad hoc...

Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge

Information Strategy and Warfare

A Guide to Theory and Practice

Edited by John Arquilla, Douglas A. Borer

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume develops information strategy as a construct equal in importance to military strategy as an influential tool of statecraft. John Arquilla and Douglas A. Borer explore three principal themes: the rise of the ‘information domain’ and information strategy as an equal partner alongside...

Published September 10th 2007 by Routledge

War, Image and Legitimacy

Viewing Contemporary Conflict

By James Gow, Milena Michalski

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conflict affect the legitimacy, conduct and outcome of contemporary warfare? The collapsing Twin Towers of September 11; the hooded figure at the Abu Ghraib...

Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge

Global Security and the War on Terror

Elite Power and the Illusion of Control

By Paul Rogers

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

As the ‘War on Terror’ evolves into the ‘Long War’ against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United States and its allies. This policy is based on the requirement to maintain control in a fractured and unpredictable global environment, while paying...

Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge

Explaining War and Peace

Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals

Edited by Jack Levy, Gary Goertz

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This edited volume focuses on the use of ‘necessary condition counterfactuals’ in explaining two key events in twentieth century history, the origins of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. Containing essays by leading figures in the field, this book analyzes the causal logics of...

Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge

Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War

Cruise Missiles and US Security Policy

By Reuben E. Brigety II

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

A new investigation into how the advent of precision-guided munitions affects the likelihood of US policy makers to use force. As such, this is an inquiry into the impact of ethics, strategy and military technology on the decision calculus of national leaders. Following the first Gulf War in...

Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge

International Law and the Use of Armed Force

The UN Charter and the Major Powers

By Joel Westra

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Since the UN Charter came into effect in 1945, there have been numerous incidents in which one or more of the five major powers (at least arguably) violated the Charter's Article 2(4) prohibition of force. Such incidents notwithstanding, this book demonstrates how the Charter restrains the major...

Published March 21st 2007 by Routledge

Disease and Security

Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia

By Christian Enemark

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Focusing on East Asia, this book sets out a framework for analyzing infectious disease threats in security terms. It covers the security significance of naturally occurring disease outbreak events such as SARS and avian influenza, the development and use of biological weapons by state and non-state...

Published February 28th 2007 by Routledge

European Security in the Twenty-First Century

The Challenge of Multipolarity

By Adrian Hyde-Price

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed empirical case-studies, this book provides an original view of the challenges and threats to a stable peace order in Europe. The end of Cold War bipolarity has transformed Europe. Using structural realist theory, Adrian Hyde-Price...

Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

Governance in Post-Conflict Societies

Rebuilding Fragile States

Edited by Derick W. Brinkerhoff

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Foreword Frederick D. Barton Preface Derick W. Brinkerhoff 1. Governance Challenges in Fragile States: Re-Establishing Security, Rebuilding Effectiveness, and Reconstituting Legitimacy Derick W. Brinkerhoff Part 1. Governance and Post-conflict: Perspectives on Core Issues 2....

Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

Altered Images and Deception Operations

By Scot Macdonald

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations. In the past, propagandists and those seeking to conduct deception operations used crude methods to alter images of real people, events and...

Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States

US National Security Policy after 9/11

By James H. Lebovic

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new study challenges the widely held view that many current US adversaries cannot be deterred, maintaining that deterrence is not a relic of the Cold War period and that it should shape US policies toward so-called ‘rogue states’ and terror groups. James Lebovic argues that deterrence...

Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge

Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War

Edited by Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained. It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and...

Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge

Vietnam in Iraq

Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts

Edited by David Ryan, John Dumbrell

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

More than most post-1970 conflicts involving US forces, the conflict in Iraq has been fought out against a background of frequently invoked memories from the era of the Vietnam War. The essays in this book offer a series of perspectives on connections and parallels between the Vietnam War and the...

Published October 25th 2006 by Routledge

The United States and Europe

Beyond the Neo-Conservative Divide?

Edited by John Baylis, Jon Roper

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

A penetrating new examination of the triangular political and cultural relationship between America, Britain, and continental Europe. This relationship is both fraught and dynamic. Post-war reconstruction of Europe brought integration. Creating a ‘United States of Europe’ was a goal...

Published October 4th 2006 by Routledge

International Law and International Relations

Bridging Theory and Practice

Edited by Thomas J. Biersteker, Peter J. Spiro, Chandra Lekha Sriram, Veronica I. Raffo

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This unique volume examines the opportunities for, and initiates work in, interdisciplinary research between the fields of international law and international relations; disciplines that have engaged little with one another since the Second World War. Written by leading experts in the fields...

Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge

Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security

Bridging the Gap

By Lionel Ponsard

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture. Lionel Ponsard clearly demonstrates how cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic...

Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge

The Political Road to War with Iraq

Bush, 9/11 and the Drive to Overthrow Saddam

By Nick Ritchie, Paul Rogers

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume explores in close detail the events and factors leading up to the second Gulf War in 2003 and considers whether war with Iraq was inevitable. Nick Ritchie and Paul Rogers argue that after the election of George W. Bush, conflict between Iraq and the United States was probable, and that...

Published September 20th 2006 by Routledge

Small Arms and Security

New Emerging International Norms

By Denise Garcia

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book examines the emergence of new international norms to govern the spread of small arms, and the extent to which these norms have been established in the policies and practices of states, regions and international organizations. It also attempts to establish criteria for assessing norm...

Published September 13th 2006 by Routledge

Bosnian Security after Dayton

New Perspectives

Edited by Michael A. Innes

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Featuring fresh contributions from leading scholars, this new volume considers a varied range of post-war, post-Dayton and post-9/11 problems and issues, reminding readers that Dayton is not the only challenge to the safety, stability, and long-term viability of the post-war Bosnian state. Drawing...

Published September 3rd 2006 by Routledge

Kennedy, Johnson and NATO

Britain, America and the Dynamics of Alliance, 1962-68

By Andrew Priest

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security. Andrew Priest closely examines this key relationship by focusing on the so-called Nassau agreement of December 1962. He clearly places...

Published August 16th 2006 by Routledge

Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism

Patterns and Predictions

By Brynjar Lia

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Drawing upon new research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a new practical predictive perspective, Brynjar Lia delivers a fresh and fascinating contribution to terrorism studies. Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism shows...

Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge

Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations

No Job for a Soldier?

By James V. Arbuckle

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and professionals engaged in the field. This book clearly shows us that: neither military nor civilian agencies can act effectively alone in resolving...

Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge

Transforming European Militaries

Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap

By Gordon Adams, Guy Ben-Ari

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

A unique look at European Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) and their implications for transatlantic co-operation in future operations. Gordon Adams and Guy Ben-Ari identify the key requirements for improvement of Europe’s abilities as an international actor. They focus on national and...

Published July 19th 2006 by Routledge

Globalization and Conflict

National Security in a 'New' Strategic Era

Edited by Robert G. Patman

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centred national security favoured by Washington, showing how a Cold War phenomenon known as the national security state, in which defence and foreign policy interests essentially converge, remains largely...

Published July 5th 2006 by Routledge

Corporate Soldiers and International Security

The Rise of Private Military Companies

By Christopher Kinsey

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces. Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the ranks of many European armies right up to the 1850s, the organizations that operated in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s, the...

Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge

Theoretical Roots of US Foreign Policy

Machiavelli and American Unilateralism

By Thomas M. Kane

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume explores the reasons why American leaders from the 1700s onwards frequently adopt policies of unilateralism. Thomas M. Kane presents fresh explanations for America’s invasion of Iraq and defiance of international agreements, which go much deeper than conventional critiques of...

Published May 10th 2006 by Routledge

Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely...

Published April 19th 2006 by Routledge

War as Risk Management

Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks

By Yee-Kuang Heng

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response. It addresses why the study of ‘risk management’ has helped fields such as sociology and criminology conceptualize new policy challenges but has made...

Published January 5th 2006 by Routledge

Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East

By Owen L. Sirrs

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Egyptian efforts to acquire long-range surface-to-surface missiles in the early 1960s carry important lessons for our time, when weapons of mass destruction and charges of politicizing intelligence are key issues. This new study traces the history of the early Egyptian ballistic missile...

Published December 18th 2005 by Routledge

Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Post-War Societies

Sustaining the Peace

Edited by T. David Mason, James D. Meernik

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits, consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from violent conflict. The rationale for this comes from the growing realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of 9/11, our understanding of conflict and...

Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge

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 December 11th 2005 by Routledge

Military Nanotechnology

Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control

By Jürgen Altmann

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

With revolutionary changes in nanotechnology (NT) now on the horizon, many countries have started major research and development (R&D) programmes, which are mainly civilian. Often overlooked are military R&D programmes – in particular those of the US government. This is the first systematic...

Published December 11th 2005 by Routledge

Striving for Military Stability in Europe

Negotiation, Implementation and Adaptation of the CFE Treaty

By Jane M. O. Sharp

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new book traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, focusing on the negotiation, implementation and adaptation of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. The author shows that arms control agreements reflect relations...

Published December 8th 2005 by Routledge

Europeanization of National Security Identity

The EU and the changing security identities of the Nordic states

By Pernille Rieker

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new book tackles two key questions: 1) How is the EU functioning as a security actor? 2) How and to what extent is the EU affecting national security identities? Focusing on the four largest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), this incisive study analyzes how and to what...

Published December 6th 2005 by Routledge

NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Regional Alliance, Global Threats

By Eric Terzuolo

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

NATO was hugely successful in facing off the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But has it been equally successful in addressing the "new threats" of the post-Cold War era? This new study assesses the organization’s political and military initiatives, and how its outreach to Russia, Ukraine, and...

Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge

The Waning of Major War

Theories and Debates

Edited by Raimo Vayrynen

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This book is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and explore whether it is waxing or waning. The main point of departure is that major-power war as a historical institution is in decline. This does not mean, though, that wars between states...

Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge

Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East

Strategic Contest

By Richard L. Russell

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East. It examines the uses and limitations of chemical weapons in regional combat, ballistic missile...

Published September 7th 2005 by Routledge

Nuclear Weapons and Strategy

US Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century

By Stephen J. Cimbala

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence. This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush...

Published August 4th 2005 by Routledge

Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism

The Origins and Dynamics of Civil Wars

By Joseph L. Soeters

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atrocities were committed that led to hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced people. Explaining the origins and dynamics of such inhuman actions...

Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge

Turkey and the War on Terror

'For Forty Years We Fought Alone'

By Andrew Mango

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

Since the 1970s, Turkey has suffered 35,000 deaths through terrorism, yet the PKK terror group was only recognized as such by the European Union in 2002. The realization that terrorism poses a world-wide threat is now forcing a keen reassessment of the struggle which Turkey has had to wage with...

Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge

The Iraq War

European Perspectives on Politics, Strategy and Operations

Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

We are living amidst the fallout of the most controversial conflict of our times. This book is a tough examination of how and why it was fought and of its continuing effects.This major new work contains analysis of the Iraq War from several different academic, as well as military perspectives....

Published July 19th 2005 by Routledge

Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities

A Revolution in Accountability

By Chandra Lekha Sriram

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its ramifications. With a detailed overview of the contemporary practice of universal jurisdiction, it discerns three trends at work: pure universal...

Published July 17th 2005 by Routledge

Missile Defence

International, Regional and National Implications

Edited by Sten Rynning, Bertel Heurlin

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

The missile defence policy of the US plays a crucial role in international affairs and is normally studied from a US perspective. This book is different, it delivers a sharp analysis of regional and national variations and integrates them with US viewpoints to present a&...

Published July 4th 2005 by Routledge

The Rift Between America and Old Europe

The Distracted Eagle

By Peter Merkl

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

This new book explains the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with Germany and France. Particular attention is devoted to the several competing interpretations of the Euro-American rift, for example, that Europeans were taken aback when American...

Published June 29th 2005 by Routledge

The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia

By Timothy Donais

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

A fresh examination of the political economy of the peacebuilding process in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the aftermath of the country's 1992-95 war. Little progress has been made in transforming the country's war-shattered economy into a functioning market economy, this new study explains...

Published June 15th 2005 by Routledge

Propaganda, the Press and Conflict

The Gulf War and Kosovo

By David R. Willcox

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

An incisive analysis of the use of the press for propaganda purposes during conflicts, using the first Gulf War and the intervention in Kosovo as case studies. As the contemporary analysis of propaganda during conflict has tended to focus considerably upon visual and instant media...

Published June 2nd 2005 by Routledge

Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict

Myth, Falsehood and Deceit 1991-1995

By Brendan O'Shea

Series: Contemporary Security Studies

In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the...

Published January 19th 2005 by Routledge