Book Series
Contemporary Security Studies
New & Published Titles:
European Security in the Twenty-First Century
The Challenge of Multipolarity
Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed empirical case-studies, this book provides an original view of the challenges and threats to a stable peace order…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54507-5 (Routledge)
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War as Risk Management
Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks
This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response.
It…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54499-3 (Routledge)
Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century
Altered Images and Deception Operations
This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54500-6 (Routledge)
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Theoretical Roots of US Foreign Policy
Machiavelli and American Unilateralism
This volume explores the reasons why American leaders from the 1700s onwards frequently adopt policies of unilateralism.
Thomas M. Kane presents fresh explanations for America’s…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54503-7 (Routledge)
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America and Iraq
Policy-making, Intervention and Regional Politics
This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46621-9 (Routledge)
European Security in a Global Context
Internal and External Dynamics
This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47682-9 (Routledge)
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America, the EU and Strategic Culture
Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain
This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49033-7 (Routledge)
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Small Arms and Security
New Emerging International Norms
This book examines the emergence of new international norms to govern the spread of small arms, and the extent to which these norms have been…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49485-4 (Routledge)
War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice
The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremburg Legacy
Advocates of the ‘Nuremberg legacy’ emphasize the positive impact of the individualization of responsibility and the establishment of an historical record through judicial procedures for…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49514-1 (Routledge)
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International Law and the Use of Armed Force
The UN Charter and the Major Powers
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49515-8 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Peace Operations and International Criminal Justice: Building Peace after Mass Atrocities
By Majbritt Lyck
To be published December 1st 2009
Democracy and Security: Preferences, Norms and Policy-Making
Edited by Matthew Evangelista, Harald Muller, Niklas Schoernig
To be published December 2nd 2009
Cyber-Conflict and Global Politics
Edited by Athina Karatzogianni
To be published December 2nd 2009
Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses
Edited by Peter Katona, John P. Sullivan, Michael D. Intriligator
To be published January 19th 2010
The Homeland Security Dilemma: Fear, Failure and the Future of American Insecurity
By Frank P. Harvey
To be published January 31st 2010
Private Security Contractors and New Wars: Risk, Law, and Ethics
By Kateri Carmola
To be published February 5th 2010
US Hegemony and International Legitimacy: Norms, Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq
By Lavina Rajendram Lee
To be published February 5th 2010
Russia's Foreign Security Policy in the 21st Century: Putin, Medvedev and Beyond
By Marcel De Haas
To be published April 9th 2010
Rethinking Security Governance: The Problem of Unintended Consequences
Edited by Christopher Daase, Cornelius Friesendorf
To be published May 7th 2010
Territory, War, and Peace: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
By John A. Vasquez, Marie T. Henehan
To be published June 30th 2010
War, Ethics and Justice: International Security in a Post-9/11 World
Edited by Mark Phythian, Annika Bergman-Rosamond
To be published June 30th 2010
US Foreign Policy and Iran: American-Iranian Relations since the Islamic Revolution
By Donette Murray
To be published June 30th 2010
Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force: Stability Missions in the Post-Cold Era
By Chiyuki Aoi
To be published July 31st 2010
Justifying America's Wars: The Conduct and Practice of US Military Intervention since 1990
By Nicholas Kerton-Johnson
To be published July 31st 2010
Understanding NATO in the 21st Century: Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance
Edited by Graeme P. Herd, John Kriendler
To be published July 31st 2010
Multipolarity in the 21st Century: A New World Order
Edited by Donette Murray, David Brown
To be published July 31st 2010
Unipolarity and World Politics: A Theory and its Implications
By Birthe Hansen
To be published July 31st 2010
Russian Imperialism Revisited: Neo-Empire, State Interests and Hegemonic Power
By Domitilla Sagramoso
To be published September 30th 2010