Security Studies Catalog 2013

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

Comparative Regional Security Governance

Edited by Shaun Breslin, Stuart Croft

Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

This book seeks to understand the role of regions in the provision of security (and insecurity) practices across the globe. Specialists with expertise in the regions they examine present eight case studies and analyses of the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Europe....

Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge

Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas

The Gangs and Cartels Wage War

Edited by Robert Bunker

In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These...

Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge

The State and Security in Mexico

Transformation and Crisis in Regional Perspective

Edited by Brian Bow, Arturo Santa-Cruz

Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

At the turn of the millennium, Mexico seemed to have finally found its path to political and economic modernization; a state which had been deeply embedded in society was being pulled out, with new political leaders allowing market forces to play a greater role in guiding the nation’s economic...

Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge

'Progress' in Zimbabwe?

The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

Edited by David Moore, Norma Kriger, Brian Raftopoulos

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation....

Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge

Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

Edited by Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny

Series: Democratization Special Issues

Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that...

Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge