Military & Strategic Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Memory, Conflict and New Media

   Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

   Edited by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva

   Series: Media, War and Security

   This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities,...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War

   Britain’s Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003

   By Keith Hamilton

   Series: Whitehall Histories

   This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain’s bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War. The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher’s government launched in...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2012

   Uneasy Stasis and Fragile Peace

   Edited by D. Suba Chandran, P. R. Chari

   Sixth in the annual series, this volume examines the major trends in armed conflicts in South Asia during 2011, efforts towards conflict management undertaken by the State and their effectiveness, as also the road ahead. While focusing on the burning issues within the region, the volume looks into...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge India
5. 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
6. Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy

   Normalisation and acceptance after the Cold War

   By Andrew Futter

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
7. Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific Security

   Contending Cooperation

   Edited by William Tow, Brendan Taylor

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation. They argue that multilateral associations such as ASEAN will eventually replace the system of bilateral alliances which were the...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
8. Peacebuilding and International Administration

   The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

   By Niels van Willigen

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
9. Global Criminology

   Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era

   Edited by K. Jaishankar, Natti Ronel

   Global criminology is an emerging field covering international and transnational crimes that have not traditionally been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. Global Criminology: Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era is a collection of rigorously peer-reviewed papers...

   Published March 24th 2013 by CRC Press
10. Human Security in East Asia

    Challenges for Collaborative Action

    Edited by Sorpong Peou

    Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

    Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this does not mean that individual human beings are too. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of human security, in contrast to the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge