International Security Books

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1. Detecting Nuclear Weapons: The IAEA and the Politics of Proliferation

   By Chen Kane

   This book critically examines the effectiveness of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), the international organization charged with preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Kane Chen looks at its safeguards system in order to evaluate the risk and possibility of a...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-44050-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Liberal Terror: Global Security, Divine Power and Emergency Rule

   By Brad Evans

   This book offers a genealogical investigation into the phenomenon of terror in the 21st century. Terror has become the defining political emblem of our globally inter-connected age, resulting in an unprecedented global security effort which has given renewed purpose to the Liberal...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58882-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

   Edited by Paul Amar

   In the 21st century, globalizing development agendas have often become inseparable from militarized or "securitized" interventions: aid missions embed themselves in walled police compounds, international organizations focus on quelling insurgencies, private investments flood the protection sector,...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57795-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Geopolitics and Strategic History 1871-2050

   By Geoffrey Sloan

   A new explanation of the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China. This volume contributes to empirically based geopolitical theory and uses that theory to improve our understanding of the major events in the international strategic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-7146-5348-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Peacekeeping in the 21st Century: Cosmopolitanism and the Globalization of Security

   By Tom Woodhouse, Oliver Ramsbotham

   This book provides a comprehensive survey of the current levels of peace-keeping forces at global, regional, sub-regional and nation-state levels. The authors offer a census of peace-keeping capacity in the first decade of the twenty-first century and chart plans to develop this capacity in order...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-44052-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons and International Order

   By William Walker

   Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-42106-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. 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....

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

8. Military Media Management: Negotiating the Frontline

   By Sarah Maltby

   This book argues that we are moving towards an increasingly ‘Mediated War’, where the practice of war is enacted through, involves, and is dependent upon media reportage, from the strategic and political justification of a war campaign to the tactical ways in which it is actually conducted....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58005-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Debating Terrorism: Interdisciplinary Analyses of Key Issues

   Edited by Richard Jackson, Samuel J Sinclair

   Debating Terrorism is an innovative new textbook, addressing a number of key issues in contemporary terrorism studies from both 'traditional' and 'critical' perspectives. In recent years, the terrorism studies field has grown in quantity and quality, with a growing number of...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59116-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. US National Security Policy: Origins, Politics, and Contemporary Challenges

    By Alexandra Homolar-Riechmann

    This book is an accessible and innovative introduction to the key issues and emerging challenges of US national security policy in the twenty-first century. The text explores how the United States, as the hegemonic player in the international arena, defines its security interests and objectives,...

    June 2011 | 978-0-415-78191-6 | Paperback (Routledge)