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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)
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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)
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Britain's War Plans 1919–1939
By Steven T. Ross
At the end of World War I the British Empire reached its largest extent in terms of territory and population. The government was reluctant to devote large resources to defense and to contemplate sending large forces to Europe in case of a new war. British forces were constantly involved...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-35849-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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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)
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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)
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Geopolitics, Strategy and the Transformation of Civilisations
By Leonard Hochberg, James D. Hardy
This new book captures how the uncertainties associated with the emergence of adversarial interstate relations transformed early civilizations. Leading authors compare the interaction of geopolitical and strategic thought in ancient Hebrew, Hindu, Chinese and Greek; and in the Muslim and...
July 2011 | 978-0-7146-5713-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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American Intellectuals and US Strategy: Forging the National Security Strategy during and after the Cold War
By Paulo J. B. Ramos
Have academics played any role in American grand strategy? Although academics are usually seen as out-of-touch idealists working in their ivory towers they have played an important role in national security policy processes, as this book will show. By examining the relationship between academics...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-43739-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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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)
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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)