Major Works: Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns

New and Published Books

1. Al Qaeda

   Edited by Paul Cruickshank

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   This new Routledge Major Work collection of the best scholarly research and serious writing on Al Qaeda will be welcomed by researchers, students, and counter-terrorism specialists as the go-to resource. The gathered materials are mainly drawn from scholarly journals of the first rank and chapters...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Critical Security Studies

   Edited by Nick Vaughan-Williams, Columba Peoples

   Series: Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

   Although prominent—some would argue pre-eminent—within the modern political lexicon, the concept of ‘security’ is complex and contested. While the meaning and reference point of security was once largely taken for granted within International Relations, the past thirty years or so have witnessed...

   Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. War and Conflict Communication

   Edited by Philip Seib

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   The close and complex relationship between conflict and communication has been vividly illustrated in work spanning the writings of Homer and Thucydides to blogs bashed out on contemporary battlefields. And in recent decades there has been a huge growth in scholarly and popular interest in the...

   Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
4. Security Studies

   Edited by Theo Farrell

   Series: Critical Concepts in International Relations

   Security Studies traces its origins to work on the causes of war. It remains the most significant subdiscipline of International Relations and, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, its concerns with the security of the international system and the individual, as well as the state, remain...

   Published November 19th 2009 by Routledge
5. War

   Edited by Alex Bellamy

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Contrary to the optimistic predictions at the turn of the last century about ‘the demise of major war’, the War on Terror, major civil wars in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, and the continuing conflict in the Middle East suggest that the study of warfare has never been so urgent. War stubbornly...

   Published September 29th 2008 by Routledge
6. Early Writings on Terrorism

   Edited by Ruth Kinna

   Making available and examining early writings on terrorism and political violence from the late-nineteenth century, this important collection brings together writings associated with the political left - French revolutionaries, socialists and anarchists - and also considers the wider context of...

   Published June 28th 2006 by Routledge
7. Early Writings On Terrorism Vol 1

   Edited by Ruth Kinna

   Published June 18th 2006 by Routledge
8. Early Writings On Terrorism Vol 2

   Edited by Ruth Kinna

   Published June 18th 2006 by Routledge
9. Terrorism

   Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Edited by David Rapoport

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Providing a history of modern rebel or non-state terror, this impressive collection takes a chronological approach to the area, highlighting the fact that terrorism as a concept has developed in the form of four consecutive waves. Each wave is characterized by distinctive features - most...

   Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge
10. The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946

    Documents and Selected Writings

    Edited by PAUL KRATOSKA

    The construction of the railway between Thailand and Burma in the Second World War using forced labour and prisoners of war has been the subject of numerous memoirs, novels and the famous Hollywood film The Bridge over the River Kwai. Yet documentation and primary sources offering an account of the...

    Published October 19th 2005 by Routledge