Military, Strategic & Security Studies News & Updates

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   Public Relations And Nation Building: Influencing Israel

   Why not read this interview with Margalit Toledano and David McKie, authors of Public Relations And Nation Building, and find out the answers to such questions as "Does the definition of PR change when used in the context of nation building?", and "What makes Israel stand out from other countries, in terms of the use of PR to inform/build national identity?"
    

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   New Titles from Routledge Military, Strategic and Security Studies

   View our recent and upcoming textbooks, handbooks and supplementary titles published in the area of Military, Strategic and Security Studies below, including the Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research, which is now available in paperback. Follow the links to read more, and request a complimentary exam copy where available.

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   The Routledge Cyber Security Collection

   Cyber Security is a growing concern in our modern world. For a limited time, Routledge are offering a 20% discount on our books in this area. Read more below about how to order your copies.

   You can also browse the Cyber Security Awareness collection, featuring over 30 FREE ACCESS journal articles, until the end of February.

4. 20% Discount on “Seapower”

   We are pleased to offer a 20% discount on the paperback edition of Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century, 3rd Edition until the 31st of March.

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   The Contemporary Middle East

   The Routledge Contemporary Middle East Series provides the first systematic attempt at studying the key actors of the dynamic, complex and strategically important MENA region. Each case study provides an easily-digestible analysis of the origins of the state, its contemporary politics, economics and international relations. All books in the series are available as free inspection copies!

   In a time of great political change and unrest, these highly topical texts offer succinct accounts of the contemporary political environment in the Middle East.
    

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   Featured Title: Crime-Terror Alliances and the State

   This new book by Lyubov Mincheva and Ted Gurr examines the political economy of transborder violence on the European Periphery that poses grave threats to domestic and international security in Europe and elsewhere. The units of analysis are unholy alliances, i.e. hybrid transborder militant and criminal networks, which have been active in the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The concept of Unholy Alliances is extended to also include the trans-state criminal syndicates that arise in failed and dysfunctional states, or operate within the global illicit economy. It also addresses the question of what reigns supreme in securing the militants’ long term success: money; or social endowment, including strong identity networks?

7. Routledge Major Works WINTER BACKLIST OFFER!

   Routledge Major Works are pleased to announce a great Winter Warmer 20% discount offer on some of our backlist titles. For the next 3 months you will be able to purchase a number of multivolume collections spanning both the Humanities and Social Sciences at a reduced rate.

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   Oscar nominations galore for the new Taylor & Francis (Routledge) eBooks video

   And the winner in the category of Best Short Film (Live Action) goes to ... eBooks for Libraries from Taylor & Francis (including all Routledge titles)! We are very proud of our new eBooks video (a bit too proud maybe). It gives you a great overview of what T&F eBooks are all about, how to trial them and how to purchase. Watch the vid here!

9. Congratulations to Iosif Kovras, for winning the 2012 Basil Chubb Prize!

   We are thrilled that Dr Iosif Kovras has been awarded the 2012 Basil Chubb Prize. Awarded annually by the Political Studies Association of Ireland, the prize is given to the best PHD thesis at an Irish university. Dr Kovras completed his thesis, Unearthing the Truth: The Politics of Exhumations in Cyprus and Spain. at Queen's University Belfast, and the judging panel all agreed that it represents and outstanding contribution to political research.

   Based on his award-winning thesis, Kovras's book Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice is due to be published by Routledge in June 2013.

   See full details of the award on the PSAI website.

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    Ian McEwan fan?

    Ian McEwan's latest novel Sweet Tooth is set in Britain in 1972, when the country is facing economic disaster, and widespread industrial unrest. The main character, Serena Frome, is sent on a secret mission and must maintain an undercover life. But have you ever wondered how McEwan creates such a convincing and detailed fictional world?