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Contemporary Security Studies


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This series focuses on new research across the spectrum of international peace and security, in an era where each year throws up multiple examples of conflicts that present new security challenges in the world around them.

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Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević The Unfinished Trial

Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević: The Unfinished Trial

1st Edition

By Nevenka Tromp
December 13, 2017

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). With the premature death of Milošević in March 2006 his trial was left unfinished. Although the traditional objectives of ...

Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century Mapping a Multipolar World?

Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Mapping a Multipolar World?

1st Edition

Edited By Donette Murray, David Brown
September 21, 2017

This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative ‘poles’ of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century. Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and authoritative analysis of one of the most ...

Transitional Justice, Peace and Accountability Outreach and the Role of International Courts after Conflict

Transitional Justice, Peace and Accountability: Outreach and the Role of International Courts after Conflict

1st Edition

By Jessica Lincoln
May 31, 2017

The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice. This book critically examines the role of outreach within international justice focusing specifically on the role of outreach at the ...

Quasi-state Entities and International Criminal Justice Legitimising Narratives and Counter-Narratives

Quasi-state Entities and International Criminal Justice: Legitimising Narratives and Counter-Narratives

1st Edition

By Ernst Dijxhoorn
February 09, 2017

This book explores the intended and unintended impact of international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state entities (QSEs). In order to do so, the concept of ‘quasi-state entity’ is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts that aspire to statehood, and fulfil statehood...

Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War Winning domestic support for the Afghan War

Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning domestic support for the Afghan War

1st Edition

Edited By Beatrice De Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose
August 24, 2016

This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, ...

Ethics, Law and Justifying Targeted Killings The Obama Administration at War

Ethics, Law and Justifying Targeted Killings: The Obama Administration at War

1st Edition

By Jack McDonald
August 02, 2016

This book examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings. It questions whether the Obama administration’s defence of its use of targeted killings is cohesive or hypocritical. In doing so, the book departs from the disciplinary purpose of international law, ...

Media Strategy and Military Operations in the 21st Century Mediatizing the Israel Defence Forces

Media Strategy and Military Operations in the 21st Century: Mediatizing the Israel Defence Forces

1st Edition

By Michal Shavit
July 18, 2016

This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Since the beginning of the 21st century the IDF has undergone an intensive process of mediatization that has transformed the media into an ...

Reconstructing Afghanistan Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective

Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By William Maley, Susanne Schmeidl
June 28, 2016

This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The book has three main themes. Firstly, the volume analyses why the ways in which civil and military actors interact in...

Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice Deferring human rights issues

Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice: Deferring human rights issues

1st Edition

By Iosif Kovras
January 21, 2016

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation. Despite democratisation, the exhumation of mass graves containing the victims from the violence in Cyprus (1963-1974) and the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) was delayed until the ...

The NATO Intervention in Libya Lessons learned from the campaign

The NATO Intervention in Libya: Lessons learned from the campaign

1st Edition

Edited By Kjell Engelbrekt, Marcus Mohlin, Charlotte Wagnsson
June 09, 2015

This book explores ‘lessons learned’ from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO’s intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an explicit UN Security Council ...

The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing

The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing

1st Edition

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Peter Forster
May 08, 2015

This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of ...

Liberal Wars Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice

Liberal Wars: Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Alan Cromartie
April 24, 2015

 This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars. The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political ...

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