Key Texts
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Security Studies
An Introduction, 2nd Edition
Security Studies is the most comprehensive textbook available on security studies. Comprehensively revised for the new edition including new chapters on Polarity, Culture, Intelligence, and the Academic and Policy Worlds, it continues to give students a detailed overview of the major...
Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Centuries of Genocide
Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, 4th Edition
The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of...
Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Transatlantic Relations since 1945
An Introduction
Transatlantic Relations Since 1945 offers a comprehensive account of transatlantic relations in the second half of the 20th century (extending to the present-day). The transatlantic relationship has been the bedrock of international relations since the end of World War II. This new textbook will...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Seapower
A Guide for the Twenty-First Century, 3rd Edition
Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
This is the third, revised and fully updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the 21st Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the...
Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Chinese Foreign Policy
An Introduction, 2nd Edition
This updated and expanded new edition of Chinese Foreign Policy examines the patterns of engagement with various domestic and international actors that have shaped Beijing’s foreign policy since the Cold War. It explores a series of ongoing questions and trends, as well as offering an in-depth look...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Advancing Peace Research
Leaving Traces, Selected Articles by J. David Singer
Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of war. His pioneering work on the Correlates of War project at the University of Michigan and his numerous books and articles have inspired generations of researchers in...
Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Contemporary Debates on Terrorism
Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative new textbook, addressing a number of key issues in contemporary terrorism studies from both 'traditional' and 'critical' perspectives. In recent years the terrorism studies field has grown significantly, with an increasing number of scholars...
Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Critical Approaches to Security
An Introduction to Theories and Methods
Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical perspectives and a variety of methodological techniques. With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and an introduction that traces the...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Critical Terrorism Studies
An Introduction to Research Methods
This book is an introduction to critical approaches to terrorism studies. While there is a growing body of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) literature devoted to empirical examples and conceptual development, very little has been written about how to systematically carry out this kind of research....
Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Environmental Security
An Introduction
This student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security. The book is divided into three sections. In the first, the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Modern Military Strategy
An Introduction
This textbook provides a coherent introduction to post-Cold War and post-9/11 military theory for upper-level students seeking an initial understanding of strategic studies. In the contemporary period there has been significant and growing interest among students about international security issues...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Realism Reader
Despite some years in the doldrums, political realism is recovering its previously dominant role as the leading paradigm in the international relations sub-field. Realism's return to prominence has been accompanied by a surge of new research, and by the development of several distinct variants...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Research Methods in Critical Security Studies
An Introduction
This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, thereby filling a large gap in the literature of this emerging field. New or critical security studies is growing as a field, but still lacks a clear methodology; the diverse range of the main foci...
Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Theories of Violent Conflict
An Introduction
This textbook introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches, and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions underlying these approaches. Theories of Violent Conflict takes the centrality of the group as an actor in contemporary...
Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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Understanding Air Warfare
Understanding Air Warfare provides the reader with a clear understanding of the key debates surrounding air power, one of the newest and most important forms of modern warfare. The exploitation of the air for military purposes has been a source of much contention since the first...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Understanding Land Warfare
This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The book is a thematic, debate-driven analysis of what makes land warfare unique; how it interacts with the other environments; the key concepts that shape how it is...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge