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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. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-42868-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Bush's Foreign and Security Policy: Principle or Partisanship?

   By Donette Murray

   This book offers a fresh assessment of the Bush presidency that builds on the ‘first cut of history’ (much of which is partisan) and the growing collection of memoirs and personal accounts purporting to explain America’s 43rd president. This account challenges readers to look more...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-48661-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)