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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
Routledge
Critical Themes in Contemporary Security

Edited by Denise Ferreira da Silva, Mark Harris

Despite the fact that the appropriation of land and resources of the so-called New World necessarily involved the dispossession and exploitation (and, sometimes, genocide) of the original inhabitants of colonized nations, it was not until the late twentieth century that Indigenous Peoples attained…

Hardback – 2019-02-07
Routledge
Critical Concepts in Law

Edited by Terhi Rantanen

Over the last forty years or so academic interest in ‘globalization’ has burgeoned, and, since the 1970s at least, attempts to define, analyse, and critically explain it have become vital areas of research and study across many disciplines. Moreover, if globalization is a defining phenomenon of our…

Hardback – 2019-01-28
Routledge
Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

By Miroslav Hroch

The two main themes of this selection of articles by Professor Hroch are the process of nation formation during the 19th century, especially in the case of 'smaller' European nations, i.e. those without statehood, and the social and political aspects of the transition from a pre-modern, feudal and…

Paperback – 2019-01-03
Routledge
Variorum Collected Studies

Edited by Stefan Wolff

The study of ethnic conflict saw its heyday in the aftermath of the Cold War with a proliferation of theories about its causes and management. But its origins as a subject of academic inquiry not only predate the end of the Cold War but also its inception, with some of the earliest works of…

Hardback – 2018-10-25
Routledge
Critical Concepts in Political Science

By Stephen D. White

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
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Variorum Collected Studies

By Elizabeth A.R.Brown

The nine essays in this volume by Elizabeth Brown deal with the development of representative institutions and monarchial power in Capetian France. One topic covered is that of the evolution of central assemblies, with case studies of the assemblies held between 1316 and 1321 illuminating the…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
Routledge
Variorum Collected Studies

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
Routledge
Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Edited by IISS

Since at least 2001, the Middle East has been the focal point of American foreign policy and military strategy. The shock of 9/11 brought the US and its allies first into Afghanistan and then, via grim momentum and fraught logic, into Iraq. But the United States has of course been engaged in the…

Hardback – 2018-07-19
Routledge
Critical Themes in Contemporary Security

Edited by IISS

The shock of the vote for Brexit – the UK’s 23 June 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union – is being felt in all areas of the UK policy community: in domestic and foreign affairs, in politics, economics and the law. But the IISS is an international institution and Brexit is not just a…

Hardback – 2018-06-11
Routledge
Critical Themes in Contemporary Security

Edited by William Prior

Socrates is perhaps the most famous philosopher in the Western intellectual tradition. He raised fundamental questions, such as ‘what is justice?’ and ‘does virtue produce happiness?’. Although he wrote nothing himself, he is the source of a vast literature, beginning with Plato, Xenophon, and…

Hardback – 2018-03-23
Routledge
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

Edited by David Coen, Tom Pegram

Published in association with UCL’s Institute of Global Governance, this new title in Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Political Science series is a four-volume collection of the very best scholarship. It is an essential successor to an earlier Routledge collection, Global Governance (4 vols.) (978…

Hardback – 2017-12-18
Routledge
Critical Concepts in Political Science