Book Series
Contemporary Security Studies
New & Published Titles:
Missile Defence
International, Regional and National Implications
The missile defence policy of the US plays a crucial role in international affairs and is normally studied from a US perspective. This book is… read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40783-0 (Routledge)
Propaganda, the Press and Conflict
The Gulf War and Kosovo
An incisive analysis of the use of the press for propaganda purposes during conflicts, using the first Gulf War and the intervention in Kosovo as…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40791-5 (Routledge)
Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East
Strategic Contest
This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in… read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40793-9 (Routledge)
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Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East
Egyptian efforts to acquire long-range surface-to-surface missiles in the early 1960s carry important lessons for our time, when weapons of mass destruction and charges of…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40798-4 (Routledge)
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Military Nanotechnology
Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control
With revolutionary changes in nanotechnology (NT) now on the horizon, many countries have started major research and development (R&D) programmes, which are mainly civilian. Often…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40799-1 (Routledge)
Striving for Military Stability in Europe
Negotiation, Implementation and Adaptation of the CFE Treaty
This new book traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, and focuses on the negotiation, implementation and…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40795-3 (Routledge)
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NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Regional Alliance, Global Threats
NATO was hugely successful in facing off the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But has it been equally successful in addressing the "new threats"…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40797-7 (Routledge)
The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia
A fresh examination of the political economy of the peacebuilding process in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the aftermath of the country's 1992-95 war.Little progress… read more
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40792-2 (Routledge)
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Controlling the Weapons of War
Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity
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…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38667-8 (Routledge)
The Waning of Major War
Theories and Debates
This book is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and explore whether it is waxing or waning.… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8588-5 (Routledge)
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
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