Complete set
Since 1961 the Adelphi Papers have provided some of the most informed accounts of international and strategic relations. Produced by the world renowned International Institute of Strategic Studies, each paper provides a short account of a subject of topical interest by a leading military figure, policy maker or academic. The project reprints the first forty years of papers, arranged into thematic sets.
The collection as a whole provides a rich and insightful account of international affairs during a period which spans the second half of the Cold War, the fall of the communist bloc and the emergence of a new regime with the United States as the sole superpower.
There is a wealth of global coverage:
The IISS has obviously made a particular contribution to the understanding of military strategy, and this is reflected with material on topics such as urban and guerrilla warfare, nuclear deterrence and the role of information in modern warfare. Volumes on military strategy are complemented by approaches from other disciplines, such as defence economics.
Key selling points:
1. The Control of Western Strategy 2. The Defence of Western Europe 3. Europe and America in the 1970s. Part I: Between Detente and Confrontation Papers from the IISS 11th Annual Conference (1970) 4. Europe and America in the 1970s. Part II: Society and Power Papers from the ISS 11th Annual Conference (1970) 5. The Impact of Strategic Defences on European–American Relations in the 1990s Stuart Croft (1989) 6. The United States and European Security Paul R. S. Gebhard (1994)