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1. Intelligence and Strategic Culture

   Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   Reliable information on potential security threats is not just the result of diligent intelligence work but also a product of context and culture. The volume explores the nexus between the intelligence process and strategic culture. How can and does the strategic outlook of the United States and...

   To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Modern War and the Utility of Force

   Challenges, Methods and Strategy

   Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Jan Angstrom

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

   Edited by Paul B. Rich, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies. In recent years, and more specifically since the insurgency in...

   Published January 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War

   Edited by Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained. It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and...

   Published July 6th 2008 by Routledge
5. Rethinking the Nature of War

   By Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have...

   Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge
6. Clausewitz and African War

   Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia

   By Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by...

   Published September 29th 2004 by Routledge