Contemporary Security Studies

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1. Controlling the Weapons of War

   Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

   By Brian Rappert

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing

   By Stephen J. Cimbala, Peter Forster

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Nuclear Weapons and Strategy

   US Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century

   By Stephen J. Cimbala

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence. This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Bosnian Security after Dayton

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Michael A. Innes

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Featuring fresh contributions from leading scholars, this new volume considers a varied range of post-war, post-Dayton and post-9/11 problems and issues, reminding readers that Dayton is not the only challenge to the safety, stability, and long-term viability of the post-war Bosnian state. Drawing...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Crime-Terror Alliances and the State

   Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

   By Lyubov Mincheva, Ted Robert Gurr

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate. "Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
6. Kennedy, Johnson and NATO

   Britain, America and the Dynamics of Alliance, 1962-68

   By Andrew Priest

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security. Andrew Priest closely examines this key relationship by focusing on the so-called Nassau agreement of December 1962. He clearly places...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. Russian Governance in the 21st Century

   Geo-Strategy, Geopolitics and New Governance

   By Irina Isakova

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   A stimulating new analysis of the dramatic systemic changes of the Russian state, principles of the governance and its foreign policy orientation. It reviews the extent of changes in Russian approaches to geopolitics and the most appropriate geopolitical development patterns that influenced...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Understanding NATO in the 21st Century

   Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance

   Edited by Graeme P. Herd, John Kriendler

   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
9. Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict

   Myth, Falsehood and Deceit 1991-1995

   By Brendan O'Shea

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security

    Bridging the Gap

    By Lionel Ponsard

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture. Lionel Ponsard clearly demonstrates how cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge