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Security and Intelligence

  1. Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies

    Edited by Robert Dover, Michael Goodman, Claudia Hillebrand

    The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular...

    To Be Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Routledge Handbook of African Security

    Edited by James Hentz

    This new Handbook examines the issues, challenges and debates surrounding the problem of security in Africa. Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understood by employing different levels of analysis: the...

    To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

    Edited by Simon Rushton, Jeremy Youde

    This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of global health has become an increasingly mainstream part of the International Relations agenda. Over the same period, scholars working in Public...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War

    Edited by Artemy Kalinovsky, Craig Daigle

    This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading and emerging scholars. The last twenty years have seen a number of conceptual and methodological innovations that have transformed what it means to study the Cold War, and this&...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  5. The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect

    Edited by W. Andy Knight, Frazer Egerton

    This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is amongst the most significant norms in global politics. As the authoritative guide to R2P, this...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge

  6. The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations

    Edited by Thomas Bruneau, Florina Cristiana Matei

    This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil–military relations. The armed forces are central actors in most societies and are involved in many different roles. Amongst other activities, they engage in peace operations, support the police in...

    Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge

  7. The Routledge Handbook of European Security

    Edited by Sven Biscop, Richard Whitman

    This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor. In the two decades since the end of the Cold War, the EU has gradually emerged as an autonomous actor in the field of...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Routledge Handbook of Human Security

    Edited by Mary Martin, Taylor Owen

    This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past twenty years. Human security has been part of academic and policy discourses since it was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1994 Human Development Report....

    To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  9. The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

    Edited by Paul B. Rich, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

    This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies. In recent years, and more specifically since the insurgency in...

    Published January 10th 2012 by Routledge

  10. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security

    Edited by Chris Seiple, Dennis R. Hoover, Pauletta Otis

    This Handbook breaks new ground by addressing global security through the lens of religion and examining the role religion plays in both war and peace. In recent years there has been a considerable upsurge of public concern about the role of religion in contemporary violence. However, other than...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge

  11. The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research

    Edited by Alex Schmid

    This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the...

    Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge

  12. Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies

    Edited by Joseph Soeters, Patricia M. Shields, Bas Rietjens

    This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. The military is not just like any organization or profession. It is an organization that is heavily influenced by politics, which dispatches its personnel to far-flung places all over the world,...

    To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge

  13. Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

    Edited by Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff

    A definitive global survey of the interaction of race, ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends theoretically grounded, rigorous analysis with empirical illustrations, to provide a state-of-the art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge

  14. Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

    Edited by Dennis J.D. Sandole, Sean Byrne, Ingrid Sandole-Staroste, Jessica Senehi

    This major Handbook comprises cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR). The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, theories, approaches, processes, and intervention designs in the field. The central theme is the value...

    Published July 30th 2008 by Routledge

  15. Handbook of Intelligence Studies

    Edited by Loch K. Johnson

    This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities. Intelligence has been in the news consistently since 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD errors. Leading experts in the field approach the three major missions of intelligence: collection-and-analysis;...

    Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge

  16. Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies

    Edited by Charles Webel, Johan Galtung

    This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially since being initiated by Professor Johan...

    Published February 7th 2007 by Routledge

  17. Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies

    Edited by Robert Dover, Michael Goodman, Claudia Hillebrand

    The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular...

    To Be Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge

  18. Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars

    Edited by Edward Newman, Karl DeRouen, Jr.

    This comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world, covering a wide range of topics including micro-level issues as well as broader debates. It includes essays by leading contributors from around the world and will set...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  19. Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War

    Just War Theory in the 21st Century

    Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans, Adam Henschke

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and...

    To Be Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge

  20. 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

  21. Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

    Edited by Roger Mac Ginty

    This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term ‘peacebuilding’ has had remarkable staying power. Other terms,...

    Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge

  22. Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies

    Edited by Joseph Soeters, Patricia M. Shields, Bas Rietjens

    This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. The military is not just like any organization or profession. It is an organization that is heavily influenced by politics, which dispatches its personnel to far-flung places all over the world,...

    To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge

  23. The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies

    Edited by Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell, Joseph Liow

    The Handbook of Asian Security Studies provides a detailed exploration of security dynamics in the three distinct subregions that comprise Asia, and also bridges the study of these regions by exploring the geopolitical links between each of them. This Handbook is divided geographically into four...

    Published November 22nd 2009 by Routledge

  24. The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations

    Edited by Thomas Bruneau, Florina Cristiana Matei

    This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil–military relations. The armed forces are central actors in most societies and are involved in many different roles. Amongst other activities, they engage in peace operations, support the police in...

    Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge

  25. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security

    Edited by Benjamin K. Sovacool

    This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked. The volume identifies varying definitions and dimensions of energy security, including those that prioritize security of supply...

    Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge

  26. The Routledge Handbook of European Security

    Edited by Sven Biscop, Richard Whitman

    This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor. In the two decades since the end of the Cold War, the EU has gradually emerged as an autonomous actor in the field of...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge

  27. Routledge Handbook of Human Security

    Edited by Mary Martin, Taylor Owen

    This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past twenty years. Human security has been part of academic and policy discourses since it was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1994 Human Development Report....

    To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  28. The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

    Edited by Paul B. Rich, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

    This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies. In recent years, and more specifically since the insurgency in...

    Published January 10th 2012 by Routledge

  29. The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies

    Edited by J. Peter Burgess

    This new Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research by a group of leading international scholars in the subdiscipline of Critical Security Studies. In today’s globalised setting, the challenge of maintaining security is no longer limited to the...

    Published January 12th 2010 by Routledge

  30. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Security

    Edited by Chris Seiple, Dennis R. Hoover, Pauletta Otis

    This Handbook breaks new ground by addressing global security through the lens of religion and examining the role religion plays in both war and peace. In recent years there has been a considerable upsurge of public concern about the role of religion in contemporary violence. However, other than...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge

  31. The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

    Edited by Victor Mauer, Myriam Dunn Cavelty

    Focusing on contemporary challenges, this major new Handbook offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past twenty years, and is now one of the most...

    Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge

  32. The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research

    Edited by Alex Schmid

    This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the...

    Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge

  33. The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War

    Edited by Artemy Kalinovsky, Craig Daigle

    This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading and emerging scholars. The last twenty years have seen a number of conceptual and methodological innovations that have transformed what it means to study the Cold War, and this&...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  34. The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect

    Edited by W. Andy Knight, Frazer Egerton

    This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is amongst the most significant norms in global politics. As the authoritative guide to R2P, this...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge

  35. The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security

    Edited by Jussi Hanhimäki, Georges-Henri Soutou, Basil Germond

    This new Handbook provides readers with the tools to understand the evolution of transatlantic security from the Cold War era to the early 21st century. After World War II, the US retained a strong presence as the dominant member of NATO throughout the Cold War. Former enemies, such as Germany,...

    Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge

  36. The Routledge Handbook of War and Society

    Iraq and Afghanistan

    Edited by Steven Carlton-Ford, Morten G. Ender

    This new handbook provides an introduction to current sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent two of the most interesting and potentially troubling events of recent decades. These two wars-so similar in...

    Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge