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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)
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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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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)
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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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How Terrorism Ends
By Leonard Weinberg
This book considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another. Likewise most of the individuals who embarked on ‘careers’ in...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-78118-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Japan's Security Identity: From a Peace-State to an International-State
By Bhubhindar Singh
This book examines Japanese post-Cold War security policy, analysing how Japan reacted to the end of the Cold war, the results of the transformation in the post-Cold War security environment, and exactly how Japanese security has changed from its cold war design....
June 2011 | 978-0-415-46336-2 | 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)
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Intelligence and Politics: An Introduction
By Philip Davies
The 9/11 attacks, the public furores over intelligence following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and a succession of highly publicized inquiries on both of sides of the Atlantic, have served to amplify a rapidly growing interest in Intelligence Studies. Subsequent terrorist attacks in Britain, Spain...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-42868-2 | Paperback (Routledge)