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1. 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)

2. War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History, 2nd Edition

   By Colin S. Gray

   This new edition of Colin Gray's textbook explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. War, Peace and International Relations serves as an excellent introduction to the international history of the past two hundred years, showing how those ...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59487-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Geopolitics for the 21st Century: Addressing National Insecurities

   Edited by Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy Jr.

   This edited volume assesses the geopolitical configuration of forces in the international arena at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, the international arena has entered a period of transition. Although the United States emerged as the victor in the Cold War...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-43392-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Inventing Geopolitics

   By Venier Pascal

   British Imperial geographer and politician Sir Halford Mackinder is generally considered to be one of the founding fathers of geopolitics. The aim of this book is to provide a long overdue reconsideration of his contribution to the history of strategy. In doing so, it will provide a critical review...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-36932-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War: Riot Control Agents in Combat

   By D. Hank Ellison

   Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-87645-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader

   By Alexander Hill

   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...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-60424-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815–2007

   Edited by Donald Stoker

   This volume presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and motives of foreign military advising in the modern era. Containing essays by US contributors covering a wide range of countries and...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-58298-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in The Operational Level of War

   By David T. Zabecki

   This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944. In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of old instructional material at the U.S. Army...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-55879-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   American Soldiers in Iraq: McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals?

   By Morten G. Ender

   American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-77789-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Hegemonic Peace and Empire: The Pax Romana, Britannica and Americana

    By Ali Parchami

    This book examines the language and the ideology of the Pax Romana, the Pax Britannica and the Pax Americana within the broader contexts of 'hegemony' and 'empire'. It addresses three main themes: a conceptual examination of the way in which hegemony has been justified; a linguistic study of...

    February 2009 | 978-0-415-49254-6 | Hardback (Routledge)