Contemporary Security Studies

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1. Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century

   Europe, America and the rise of the rest

   By Erwan Lagadec

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century. The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. The EU, the UN and Collective Security

   Making multilateralism effective

   Edited by Joachim Krause, Natalino Ronzitti

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book examines the effectiveness of multilateralism in ensuring collective security and, in particular, the EU’s role in this process. In 1992, shortly after the end of the Cold War, a Security Council Summit in New York reaffirmed the salience of the system of collective security and stated...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Women, Peace and Security

   Translating Policy into Practice

   Edited by Funmi Olonisakin, Karen Barnes, Eka Ikpe

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries. UN Resolution 1325 was adopted in October 2000, and was the first time that the security concerns of...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. European Homeland Security

   A European strategy in the making?

   Edited by Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard, Patryk Pawlak

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration. The EU functions in a complex security environment, with perceived security threats from Islamist terrorists, migration...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Rethinking Security Governance

   The Problem of Unintended Consequences

   Edited by Christopher Daase, Cornelius Friesendorf

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book explores the unintended consequences of security governance actions and explores how their effects can be limited. Security governance describes new modes of security policy that differ from traditional approaches to national and international security. While traditional security policy...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Aggression, Crime and International Security

   Moral, Political and Legal Dimensions of International Relations

   By Page Wilson

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations. This book analyses the evolution of the concept of aggression in international relations from World...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Multipolarity in the 21st Century

   A new world order

   Edited by Donette Murray, David Brown

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do. As the twenty-first century moves out of its first decade, American supremacy...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force

   Stability Missions in the Post-Cold War Era

   By Chiyuki Aoi

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. In the success of stability operations, legitimacy is key. In order to achieve success, the intervening force must create a sense of...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. European Security Governance

   The European Union in a Westphalian World

   Edited by Charlotte Wagnsson, James Sperling, Jan Hallenberg

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU. The EU approach to security governance has been successful in its immediate neighbourhood: it has successfully...

   Published October 31st 2011 by Routledge
10. Private Security Contractors and New Wars

    Risk, Law, and Ethics

    By Kateri Carmola

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding ‘service’ industry will have to be adjusted. In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan many of those who carry weapons are not...

    Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge