International Security Books

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1. Al Qaeda

   Edited by Paul Cruickshank

   This new Major Work assembles a four-volume collection of the best research and writing on Al Qaeda terrorism so that students, counter-terrorism specialists, and academics have a 'go-to' resource on the subject matter. The articles are mainly drawn from peer review journals such as Studies in...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58174-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency

   Edited by Paul Rich, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

   This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counter-insurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies. There has been an upsurge of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56733-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Security, War and Technology: Paul Virilio and the Global Politics of Disappearance

   By Mark Lacy

   This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio’s theorising on war and security. Virilio is one of the most challenging and provocative critics of technology, war and globalization. While many commentators focus on the new possibilities for mobility and communication in an...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-57604-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Democracy and Intervention

   By John Macmillan

   This book develops a systematic understanding of the conceptual, ethical, political and theoretical dimensions of intervention in an empirical/historical context. More specifically, the book aims to provide advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with a systematic and critical...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-44495-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. UN Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Learning Lessons From Haiti

   By Eirin Mobekk

   This book looks at UN Peace Operations in Haiti and why they went so dramatically wrong first time around, resulting in much deep-seated conflict, in order that these lessons can be taken into account in future operations elsewhere....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-48086-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Bush's Foreign and Security Policy: Principle or Partisanship?

   By Donette Murray

   This book offers a fresh assessment of the Bush presidency that builds on the ‘first cut of history’ (much of which is partisan) and the growing collection of memoirs and personal accounts purporting to explain America’s 43rd president. This account challenges readers to look more...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-48661-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism

   By Eamon Murphy

   This book aims to explain the rise of Pakistan as a centre of Islamic extremism by going back to the roots of the state and the nature of Islam in Pakistan. The broad aim therefore is to examine the social, and political and economic factors that have...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56526-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Regional Powers and Security Orders: A Theoretical Framework

   By Derrick Frazier, Robert Stewart-Ingersoll

   This book provides a coherent new theoretical framework for understanding regional security orders and the behaviour of states within them....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56919-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Ethnic Conflict: An Introduction

   By Rajat Ganguly

   This new upper-level textbook offers a comprehensive overview of four key dimensions of ethnic conflict, and provides six case studies from around the globe....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57397-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. The Routledge Handbook of Human Security

    Edited by Mary Martin, Taylor Owen

    This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past 15 years, since the concept was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1993 and 1994 Human Development Reports. The volume fills a clear gap in the...

    July 2011 | 978-0-415-58128-8 | Hardback (Routledge)