Strategic Studies
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Geopolitics and Strategic History 1871-2050
Series: Geopolitical Theory
A new explanation of the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China. This volume contributes to empirically based geopolitical theory and uses that theory to improve our understanding of the major events in the international strategic...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Geopolitics for the 21st Century
Addressing National Insecurities
Series: Geopolitical Theory
This edited volume assesses the geopolitical configuration of forces in the international arena at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, the international arena has entered a period of transition. Although the United States emerged as the victor in the Cold War,...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Indian National Security and Counter-Insurgency
The use of force vs non-violent response
Series: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and National Security
This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state’s responses to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. The Indian state has responded to these various insurgencies with a combination of the use of force,...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The Theory and Practice of Irregular Warfare
Warrior-scholarship in counter-insurgency
Series: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and National Security
This book offers an analysis of key individuals who have contributed to both the theory and the practice of counterinsurgency (COIN). Insurgencies have become the dominant form of armed conflict around the world today. The perceptible degeneration of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan into...
To Be Published October 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Military Strategy as Public Discourse
America's war in Afghanistan
Series: Cass Military Studies
This book presents the current history of United States military strategy in Afghanistan as an example of dysfunctional policy discourse among the nation’s elites. The legitimacy of a country’s military strategy can become a subject of intense public debate and doubt, especially in prolonged...
To Be Published November 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Thailand and Counterinsurgency
Strategy, Tactics and National Security Policy, 1965-2010
Series: Cass Military Studies
This book describes the Thai way of counterinsurgency (COIN). The Thai have successfully fought and defeated two insurgencies in the past, and they are currently fighting another. The first war, which was country wide, was against communist insurgents from 1965-85. The second was...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge