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1. The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies

   Edited by J. Peter Burgess

   This new Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research by a group of leading international scholars in the subdiscipline of Critical Security Studies. In today’s globalised setting, the challenge of maintaining security is no longer limited to the...

   Published January 12th 2010 by Routledge
2. Global Biosecurity

   Threats and Responses

   Edited by Peter Katona, John P. Sullivan, Michael D. Intriligator

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases,...

   Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge
3. Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding

   The International Community and the Transition to Independence

   Edited by Aidan Hehir

   Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

   This book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO’s intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo’s development; intervention, statebuilding and independence. Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative of key...

   Published January 12th 2010 by Routledge
4. Transforming Violent Conflict

   Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival

   By Oliver Ramsbotham

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book investigates intractable conflicts and their main verbal manifestation - radical disagreement – and explores what can be done when conflict resolution fails. The book identifies agonistic dialogue - dialogue between enemies - as the key to linguistic intractability. It suggests how...

   Published January 20th 2010 by Routledge
5. US Hegemony and International Legitimacy

   Norms, Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq

   By Lavina Rajendram Lee

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq. The preference for unilateral action in foreign policy under the Bush Administration, culminating in the use of force against Iraq in 2003, has unquestionably...

   Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge
6. US-China-EU Relations

   Managing the New World Order

   Edited by Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø, Zhang Tuosheng

   Series: Asian Security Studies

   This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics. Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future...

   Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
7. The Security Context in the Black Sea Region

   Edited by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou

   This book on the security context in the Black Sea region is a timely endeavour and substantive contribution to understanding the state of play in the region and its linkages to the rest of the world. With contributions from analysts from Europe, the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, the...

   Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
8. The EU-Russia Strategic Partnership

   The Limits of Post-Sovereignty in International Relations

   By Hiski Haukkala

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Why have the European Union and the Russian Federation encountered severe difficulties in developing their relationship? Why haven’t the parties lived up to the initial promise and enthusiasm of the early 1990s? Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this...

   Published February 9th 2010 by Routledge
9. Emerging Transnational (In)security Governance

   A Statist-Transnationalist Approach

   Edited by Ersel Aydinli

   Series: Security and Governance

   This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security cooperation experiences. The resulting chapters provide original theoretical...

   Published February 11th 2010 by Routledge
10. Defining and Defying Organised Crime

    Discourse, Perceptions and Reality

    Edited by Felia Allum, Francesca Longo, Daniela Irrera, Panos Kostakos

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the nature of this threat. By analysing the existing, official institutional discourse on organized crime it examines whether or not it has...

    Published February 16th 2010 by Routledge
11. US Strategy in Africa

    AFRICOM, Terrorism and Security Challenges

    Edited by David J Francis

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book outlines the construction, interpretations and understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early twenty-first century. No single issue or event in the recent decades in Africa has provoked so much controversy and unified hostility and opposition as the announcement by former...

    Published February 16th 2010 by Routledge
12. Security, Risk and the Biometric State

    Governing Borders and Bodies

    By Benjamin Muller

    Series: PRIO New Security Studies

    This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has...

    Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge
13. Statebuilding and Justice Reform

    Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan

    By Matteo Tondini

    Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping

    The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001. In particular, it focuses on the role of international actors and their interaction with local stakeholders, highlighting some provisional results, together...

    Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge
14. Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts

    Challenging the Weberian State

    Edited by Keith Krause

    Armed groups operating beyond the state have become the most important actors in most contemporary wars and violent conflicts, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Colombia and Somalia. They come in a dizzying array of forms: some informally linked to the state and state power, others in opposition to the...

    Published March 8th 2010 by Routledge
15. Russia's Foreign Security Policy in the 21st Century

    Putin, Medvedev and Beyond

    By Marcel De Haas

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book examines Russia’s external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond.The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia’s background in the former Soviet Union as well as close...

    Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge