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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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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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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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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)
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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)
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China’s Strategic Competition with the United States
By Russell Ong
China’s rise as an economic, political, and military power and the expansion of its diplomatic activism beyond Asia into Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East has profoundly transformed its relationship with the United States. This book examines the transformation and the multifaceted...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-56107-5 | Hardback (Routledge)