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Browse Military, Strategic & Security Studies books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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1. American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction

   Comparing Japan and Iraq

   By Jeff Bridoux

   Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

   On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, President G.W. Bush argued that if setting up democracy in Japan and Germany after WW II was successful, then it should also be successful in Iraq. This book provides a detailed comparison of the reconstruction of Japan from 1945 to 1952 with the current...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
2. Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution

   Debating Peace in Northern Ireland

   Edited by Katy Hayward, Catherine O'Donnell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process. Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
3. Military Integration after Civil Wars

   Multiethnic Armies, Identity and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

   By Florence Gaub

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts. The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows how a multiethnic army is frequently the...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
4. Ending War

   Consolidating Peace

   By Mats Berdal, Achim Wennmann

   Series: Adelphi series

   The transition from war to peace is fraught with tension and the risk of a return to bloodshed. With so much at stake, it is crucial that the international community and local stakeholders make sense of the complex mosaic of challenges, to support a lasting, inclusive and prosperous peace. Recent...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
5. Peacebuilding and Rule of Law in Africa

   Just Peace?

   Edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman

   Series: Security and Governance

   The promotion of the rule of law has become an increasingly important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa, where there have been numerous internal armed conflicts and missions over the last decade. This book explores the expanding international efforts...

   Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

   A Documentary Reader

   By Alexander Hill

   Series: Soviet (Russian) Study of War

   This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides...

   Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
7. War, Peace and Hegemony in a Globalized World

   The Changing Balance of Power in the Twenty-First Century

   Edited by Chandra Chari

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the growing aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order. Written by leading scholars, such as Joseph Nye, Eric Hobsbawm and Akira Iriye, the volume examines if the absence of a...

   Published August 26th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Handbook of War and Society

   Iraq and Afghanistan

   Edited by Steven Carlton-Ford, Morten G. Ender

   This new handbook provides an introduction to current sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent two of the most interesting and potentially troubling events of recent decades. These two wars-so similar in...

   Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge
9. Narcos Over the Border

   Gangs, Cartels and Mercenaries

   Edited by Robert J Bunker

   The book takes a hard hitting look at the drug wars taking place in Mexico between competing gangs, cartels, and mercenary factions; their insurgency against the Mexican state; the narco-violence and terrorism that is increasingly coming over the border into the United States, and its...

   Published August 14th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

    By Alex Marshall

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

    The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However,...

    Published August 12th 2010 by Routledge