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1. Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant

   By Emile Hokayem

   Series: Adelphi series

   As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an arena in which a multitude of local and foreign actors compete. The volatile regional fault lines that run through Syria have ruptured during this conflict,...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Asia’s Power Dynamics

   Military Change and its Geopolitical Effects

   By Desmond Ball, Raja Mohan, Tim Huxley, Adam Ward

   Series: Adelphi series

   This Adelphi examines defence procurement in Asia against a backdrop of the region’s fragmented security infrastructure. The overlapping alliances, multilateral bodies and regional dialogues are ill-equipped to respond to the changing balance of power, since there is no unified forum through which...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Regional Disorder

   The South China Sea Disputes

   By Sarah Raine, Christian Le Mière

   Series: Adelphi series

   China’s rise casts a vast and uncertain shadow over the regional balance of power in the Asia Pacific, and nowhere is this clearer than in the South China Sea. The significance of the fraught territorial disputes in this potentially resource-rich sea extends far beyond the small groupings of...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism

   By Toby Dodge

   Series: Adelphi series

   Iraq recovered its full sovereignty at the end of 2011, with the departure of all US military forces. The 2003 invasion was undertaken to dismantle a regime that had long threatened its own population and regional peace, as well as to establish a stable, democratic state in the heart of the Middle...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. Asia’s Naval Expansion

   An Arms Race in the Making

   By Geoffrey Till

   Series: Adelphi series

   The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region’s powers involved in a naval arms race? Naval development is and always has been a...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
6. Weary Policeman

   American Power in an Age of Austerity

   Edited by Dana Allin, Erik Jones

   Series: Adelphi series

   As another presidential election looms, the America’s role in global affairs and security has emerged as one of the campaign’s great battle lines. The struggle not just to define but also to preserve American power is no modern phenomenon: questions of intervention and projection have dominated the...

   Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Latin America and the Illusion of Peace

   By David R. Mares

   Series: Adelphi series

   This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin America’s contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of Latin America as a region of peace means that each time the use of force rises to the level of global attention (e.g., Ecuador-Peru 1995 or...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. On Nuclear Deterrence

   The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan

   By Tanya Ogilvie-White

   Series: Adelphi series

   This timely book, published in the lead up to the 2012-14 decision on Trident renewal, makes available for the first time the late Sir Michael Quinlan’s private correspondence on nuclear deterrence. It shows why Sir Michael, as Policy Director and then Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence...

   Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States

   The Problems of Prohibition

   By Nigel Inkster, Virginia Comolli

   Series: Adelphi series

   The world’s wealthiest nations have expended vast blood and treasure in tracking and capturing traffickers, dealers and consumers of narcotics, as well as destroying crops and confiscating shipments. Yet the global trade in illicit drugs is thriving, with no apparent change in the level of...

   Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement

    Principles vs Pragmatism

    By William Potter, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova

    Series: Adelphi series

    The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is the largest and most diverse political grouping of states engaged on issues related to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Drawing on the authors’ first-hand experiences as members of NAM observer-state delegations in NPT and IAEA negotiations, as well as...

    Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge