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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. Terrorism and Human Rights

   Edited by Alex Schmid

   As a special type of political violence, terrorism comes in several guises. It manifests itself as disproportionate or draconian state repression in internal conflicts, and also as a particular type of violation of the laws of war in international conflicts. Most often, however, it is associated...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-57472-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Piracy, Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at Sea: Navies Confront the 21st Century

   By Martin N. Murphy

   This is the first detailed study of irregular warfare at sea, covering such topics as piracy, asymmetric war, and terrorism....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55039-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Hamas and Suicide Terrorism: Multi-causal and Multi-level Approaches

   By Rashmi Singh

   This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period. This volume adopts a multi-causal, multi-level approach to analyse the use of suicide bombings by Hamas and...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-49804-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The End of the Cold War in The Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict

   Edited by Artemy Kalinovsky, Sergei Radchenko

   This book examines the end of the Cold War in the Third World, and contributes to ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors. Relatively little has been written on the end of the Cold War in the Third...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60054-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era

   By Elizabeth Chadwick

   The issue of self-determination is often thought about and discussed in terms of the post-1945 framework which attempted to balance a stable vision of state sovereignty and territorial integrity alongside the principle of the self-determination of ‘peoples’. This implied that perhaps...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-55004-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Crimes of State Past and Present: Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses

   Edited by David Crowe

   War Crimes and acts of genocide are as old as history itself, but particularly during the 20th century. Yet what are war crimes and acts of genocide? And why did it take the world so long to define these crimes and develop legal institutions to bring to justice individuals and nations responsible...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-57788-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Understanding Counterinsurgency: Doctrine, operations, and challenges

   Edited by Thomas Rid, Thomas Keaney

   This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare. Featuring essays by some of the world’s leading experts on unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-77765-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Modern War and the Utility of Force: Challenges, Methods and Strategy

   Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Jan Angstrom

   This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-57595-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. 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)