Politics & International Relations: Military & Strategic Studies

Edited by David J. Galbreath, Alex Neads

Those working in Defence Studies explore the convergence between war and politics. It is, in the words of the editor of this new Routledge collection, ‘the socio-technological study of how martial force is understood, built, and deployed’. Indeed, the term ‘Defence Studies’ has its origins in the…

Hardback – 2020-04-10 
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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Edited by IISS

Over the past several years, rising cyber power has comprehensively and profoundly affected international security. Key areas include military operations, terrorism, critical infrastructure, corporate security, individual privacy and financial security, and political processes. The burgeoning…

Hardback – 2019-08-22
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Critical Themes in Contemporary Security

Edited by Liselotte Odgaard, Mathieu Duchâtel

Chinese security has become a key focus after the Cold War. In just a few decades, China has gone from an obscure position as a closed communist developing country with little integration into international institutions over being designated a prospective strategic partner of the United States to…

Hardback – 2018-08-16
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Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Edited by Alex J. Bellamy

Past, ongoing, and impending humanitarian crises—including those in Rwanda, Kosovo, Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria—mean that dizzyingly difficult questions around the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention (and the so-called ‘Responsibility to Protect’) have, alas, never been more…

Hardback – 2017-02-24
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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Edited by IISS

Hardback – 2016-03-08
Routledge

Edited by IISS

Hardback – 2016-03-08
Routledge

This new two volume collection allows the reader to track the evolution of (primarily) Western thinking about terrorism over recent decades. Haunted, unsurprisingly, by the spectre of 11 September 2001, it gives writings of the late 1990s, in which authors come to terms with the…

Hardback – 2016-03-03
Routledge

Edited by Michael E. Smith

Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, European Security is a new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies series. Edited by Michael E. Smith, it is a…

Hardback – 2015-10-28
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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Edited by Peter R. Neumann

‘Radicalization’ has become one of the great buzzwords of our time. A Google search for the concept produces more than 1,500,000 hits—less than ‘terrorism’ but equal to ‘political violence’ and ‘extremism’. This may seem surprising, given that the term entered the academic vocabulary just ten years…

Hardback – 2015-06-25
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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Edited by Barry Rubin

No area of the world has been more involved in military matters during the last half century than has the Middle East. The region has seen seven Arab-Israeli wars; three wars involving Iraq and two more in Afghanistan; as well as civil wars in Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, and among…

Hardback – 2015-01-29
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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Edited by Vincent Chetail, Oliver Jütersonke

The controversies raised by the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in Iraq, and the management of the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings have demonstrated anew that achieving peace is not merely a matter of ending wars. Indeed, the consequences of conflicts often extend far beyond the…

Hardback – 2014-06-22
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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Edited by Asa Kasher

Standing on the shoulders of thinkers who have sought carefully to delineate proper behaviour in armed conflict—not least to distinguish just from illegitimate wars—military ethics is a subdiscipline enjoying renewed interest and, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, increasing practical…

Hardback – 2013-11-19
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy