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1. The US Military and Outer Space: Perspectives, Plans and Programs

   By Peter L. Hays

   This new book clearly explains the evolution of US military perspectives, plans, and programmes for the use of space from the 1950s to the present. It shows how and why the military’s use of space has moved from the highest strategic levels down to the tactical level, enabling a new American...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-36654-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons

   By Bhumitra Chakma

   Pakistan is a vitally important country in the contemporary global political system. It is a de facto nuclear state, and a pivotal country in the War on Terror. This book provides a comprehensive study of a nuclear-armed Pakistan, investigating the implications of its emergence as a nuclear weapons...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-59032-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. War and Conflict Communication

   Edited by Philip Seib

   The close and complex relationship between conflict and communication has been vividly illustrated in work spanning the writings of Homer and Thucydides to blogs bashed out on contemporary battlefields. And in recent decades there has been a huge growth in scholarly and popular interest in the...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-55458-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture

   By Roger Stahl

   Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainment"—in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive mode...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-99978-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism: A Supply-Side Approach

   Edited by William C. Potter, Cristina Hansell

   The most difficult challenge for a terrorist organization seeking to build a nuclear weapon or improvised nuclear device is obtaining fissile material, either plutonium or highly enriched uranium (HEU). Experts acknowledge that obtaining HEU, uranium that has been processed to increase the...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-49484-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Politics of Destroying Surplus Small Arms: Inconspicuous Disarmament

   Edited by Aaron Karp

   Although it receives much less attention than better known disarmament processes, the destruction of small arms is reshaping the military arsenals of the world. Out of roughly 200 modern military small arms world-wide, about 500,000 are destroyed every year. The commitment of major governments and...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-49461-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Understanding Terrorist Innovation: Technology, Tactics and Global Trends

   By Adam Dolnik

   This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-54516-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in the Next Decade

   Edited by Peter Lavoy

   The intensification of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises has created new fears that deteriorating security conditions in the Middle East, Northeast Asia, and other regions will lead additional countries to seek their own nuclear arsenals in the years to come. This special issue examines...

   February 2009 | 978-0-415-49522-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century: Altered Images and Deception Operations

   By Scot Macdonald

   This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations. In the past, propagandists and those seeking to conduct deception operations used crude methods to alter images of real people, events...

   January 2009 | 978-0-415-54500-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Transforming European Militaries: Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap

    By Gordon Adams, Guy Ben-Ari

    A unique look at European Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) and their implications for transatlantic co-operation in future operations. Gordon Adams and Guy Ben-Ari identify the key requirements for improvement of Europe’s abilities as an international actor. They focus on national...

    2006 | 978-0-415-39264-8 | Hardback (Routledge)