Military, Strategic & Security Studies

January sees the publication of this innovative new textbook, edited by Richard Jackson and Samuel J. Sinclair. Contemporary Debates on Terrorism deals with the key issues in terrorism studies, an increasingly important subject matter in the contemporary world.

Yehezekel Dror is one of Israel’s leading authorities on public policy, having won the Israel Prize for Management in 2005. He has served as an adviser to think tanks and to the Israeli government, as well as recently being appointed as member of the Winograd Commission on the Second Lebanon War, as reported by Yonatan Touval in the January 2012 edition of Haaretz. It therefore comes as no surprise that his recently published book is a compelling work, offering a fascinating insight into Israeli national security challenges and responses.

The Routledge Security Studies 2012 catalog is here and now available to browse online!

Can you hear the drum roll? The 2012 Reference Catalog has arrived and can be downloaded today. Simple. You can learn about all our 2011 and 2012 Library Reference titles, both in print and eBooks, across the humanities and social sciences. And we have packed the Catalog full of new interactive features. Read on for the full low down.

The use of rape in war and the effects it has on its victims are explored by Inger Skjelsbæk in his book The Political Psychology of War Rape, which specifically examines the case of Bosnia. It provides a framework for understanding the use of sexual violence in war, and how individual experiences are shaped by national and international discourses.

Asia has always been an area of concern for American security. With China’s power continually increasing, it may come as no surprise that Obama is moving to limit this ever expanding influence. His most recent initiative sees American troops stationed in Darwin, in the north of Australia, in order to maintain a presence in an area that is ‘critical to all our economies’.

This month sees the publication of many new and exciting titles from Routledge Military, Strategic and Security Studies. On a range of highly topical subjects, these books cover European Security, US policies abroad, as well as international order, to name but a few.

In the last ten years the global ‘War on Terror’ has been waged largely in response to the events of September 11th 2001. How has this been conducted, and what have we learned about the impact of this reaction on global politics and world order? In Terror in Our Time Ken Booth and Tim Dunne show us how we got here, and where we should be heading, offering a novel set of interpretations and succinct summaries of the complexities of the post-9/11 world.