International Security
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Asia’s Power Dynamics
Military Change and its Geopolitical Effects
Series: Adelphi series
This Adelphi examines defence procurement in Asia against a backdrop of the region’s fragmented security infrastructure. The overlapping alliances, multilateral bodies and regional dialogues are ill-equipped to respond to the changing balance of power, since there is no unified forum through which...
Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States
The Problems of Prohibition
Series: Adelphi series
The world’s wealthiest nations have expended vast blood and treasure in tracking and capturing traffickers, dealers and consumers of narcotics, as well as destroying crops and confiscating shipments. Yet the global trade in illicit drugs is thriving, with no apparent change in the level of...
Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Latin America and the Illusion of Peace
Series: Adelphi series
This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin America’s contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of Latin America as a region of peace means that each time the use of force rises to the level of global attention (e.g., Ecuador-Peru 1995 or...
Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Weary Policeman
American Power in an Age of Austerity
Series: Adelphi series
As another presidential election looms, the America’s role in global affairs and security has emerged as one of the campaign’s great battle lines. The struggle not just to define but also to preserve American power is no modern phenomenon: questions of intervention and projection have dominated the...
Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement
Principles vs Pragmatism
Series: Adelphi series
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is the largest and most diverse political grouping of states engaged on issues related to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Drawing on the authors’ first-hand experiences as members of NAM observer-state delegations in NPT and IAEA negotiations, as well as...
Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
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On Nuclear Deterrence
The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan
Series: Adelphi series
This timely book, published in the lead up to the 2012-14 decision on Trident renewal, makes available for the first time the late Sir Michael Quinlan’s private correspondence on nuclear deterrence. It shows why Sir Michael, as Policy Director and then Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence...
Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Asia’s Naval Expansion
An Arms Race in the Making
Series: Adelphi series
The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region’s powers involved in a naval arms race? Naval development is and always has been a...
Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
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UN Security Council
Practice and Promise, 2nd Edition
Series: Global Institutions
Written by best-selling author Edward C. Luck, this new text is broad and engaging enough for undergraduates, sophisticated enough for graduates and lively enough for a wider audience interested in the key institutions of international public policy. Looking at the antecedents of the UN...
To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Chinese Diplomacy and the UN Security Council
Beyond the Veto
Series: Politics in Asia
China has emerged in the 21st century as a sophisticated, and sometimes contentious, actor in the United Nations Security Council. This is evident in a range of issues, from negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program to efforts to bring peace to Darfur. Yet China’s role as a veto-holding member of the...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Sovereignty as Symbolic Form
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
This book summarizes recent academic debates on sovereignty within academic international relations and political theory. Recent scholarship has focused on the changing meaning of the concept of sovereignty in a variety of historical and political contexts, and under what conditions these changes...
To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Ethics and the Laws of War
The Moral Justification of Legal Norms
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds...
Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
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Militancy and Violence in West Africa
Religion, politics and radicalisation
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the...
To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Multipolarity in the 21st Century
A New World Order
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
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Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century
Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest
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
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Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice
Deferring Human Rights Issues
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This book investigates why some societies defer the solution of transitional justice issues, such as the disappeared/missing, even after successful democratic consolidation. It also explains why the same societies finally decide to deal with these human rights issues. In short, it considers the...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Understanding Emerging Security Challenges
Threats and Opportunities
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
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Understanding NATO in the 21st Century
Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance
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
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Constructing Russia's Security Policy
An Insecure Giant
Series: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
This books examines the evolution of Russia’s security policy under Putin and Medvedev in the 21st century, using a social-constructivist approach. This book investigates the way in which Russia’s official discourse on state identity andsecurity priorities evolved over the course of the...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Terror
Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives
Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues
About the Series The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60-page-or-shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Arms Control in the 21st Century
Between Coercion and Cooperation
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
This volume evaluates the impact of coercive arms control efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the twenty-first century. A new paradigm in arms control is gradually replacing the idea that mutually agreed restrictions on armaments can improve international security. Thus,...
Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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International Security, Conflict and Gender
'HIV/AIDS is Another War'
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS. Since the turn of the century international policy agenda on...
Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Power and Progress
International Politics in Transition
Series: Security and Governance
Jack Snyder is a leading American international relations scholar with an international reputation for his research on IR theory and US Foreign policy. This book collects many of his most important essays into a single volume. Exploring a liberal realist theory of international politics, the book...
Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Armed Drones and the Ethics of War
Military Virtue in a Post-Heroic Age
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed uninhabited aerial vehicles (‘hunter-killer drones’) in contemporary conflicts. The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference for air-powered management of strategic...
To Be Published August 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Genocide Matters
Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives
This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: The current state of research on genocide New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence Developments in teaching about genocide...
Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Still Struggling
Congress and the Challenge of National Security Policymaking
In Still Struggling, Charles Cushman provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the complicated process of formulating national security policy in the United States. Beginning with an historical discussion of the origins of the notion of "shared powers," Cushman illustrates how this...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Understanding Global Security
3rd Edition
Fully revised to incorporate recent developments, this third edition of Understanding Global Security analyzes the variety of ways in which peoples lives are threatened and / or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security Studies texts: war, deterrence and terrorism...
To Be Published June 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Understanding Transatlantic Relations
Whither the West?
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
In light of the Arab Spring and after days of public quarreling that highlighted the divisions among NATO’s members on an agreement to give command of the "no-fly" zone in Libya to the Alliance, it is evident that the U.S. is having problems engaging with its European allies and partners. Why is...
Published May 5th 2013 by Routledge