Military, Strategic & Security Studies

Now in its second edition, Routledge are pleased to feature this excellent textbook, edited by Paul D. Williams, and comprehensively revised to include new chapters on Polarity, Culture, Intelligence and the Academic and Policy Worlds.

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.

The Routledge Contemporary Middle East Series provides the first systematic attempt at studying the key actors of the dynamic, complex and strategically important MENA region. Each case study provides an easily-digestible analysis of the origins of the state, its contemporary politics, economics and international relations. All books in the series are available as free inspection copies!

In a time of great political change and unrest, these highly topical texts offer succinct accounts of the contemporary political environment in the Middle East.
 

This new book by Lyubov Mincheva and Ted Gurr examines the political economy of transborder violence on the European Periphery that poses grave threats to domestic and international security in Europe and elsewhere. The units of analysis are unholy alliances, i.e. hybrid transborder militant and criminal networks, which have been active in the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The concept of Unholy Alliances is extended to also include the trans-state criminal syndicates that arise in failed and dysfunctional states, or operate within the global illicit economy. It also addresses the question of what reigns supreme in securing the militants’ long term success: money; or social endowment, including strong identity networks?

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has recently published a poll that has found that 78% of Americans support the US taking military action to stop genocide or mass atrocities. Commissioned 67 years after the Holocaust, the poll shows that Americans believe genocide is still very possible yet preventable. It also found Americans want the US government to play a major role in stopping genocide from happening around the world.

The Certificate in Terrorism Studies is a 16 week online program, or individual 4 week subject modules, from the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews and Informa.

Delivered entirely online, this is the leading terrorism studies course - vital if it's part of your responsibility to protect people, infrastructure, organisations or investments.

Find out more: www.terrorismstudies.com

Introducing our December Super Author!

We are pleased to announce that the Routledge Super Author for December is Marcello Musto.

Routledge Major Works are pleased to announce a great Winter Warmer 20% discount offer on some of our backlist titles. For the next 3 months you will be able to purchase a number of multivolume collections spanning both the Humanities and Social Sciences at a reduced rate.