International Security Products

By Berenike Prem

This book examines the legitimation of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), focusing on the controversy between PMSCs and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). While existing studies disproportionately emphasise the ability for companies and their clients to dominate and shape…

Hardback – 2019-08-11 
Gower
Routledge Private Security Studies

By Zafar Khan, Rizwana Abbasi

This book explores evolving patterns of nuclear deterrence, the impact of new technologies, and changing deterrent force postures in the South Asian region to assess future challenges for sustainable peace and stability. Under the core principles of security dilemma, this book analyses the…

Hardback – 2019-08-08 
Routledge
Routledge Security in Asia Series

By Naila Maier-Knapp

This book provides an analysis of non-traditional security (NTS) crises and cooperation between the European Union and Southeast Asia. Using case studies from both Southeast Asia and Western Europe between 2009 and 2016, the book examines the haze, marine life protection, migration and terrorism.…

Hardback – 2019-08-01 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

By Marc Lanteigne

This updated and expanded fourth edition of Chinese Foreign Policy seeks to examine the decision-makers, processes and rationales behind China’s expanding international relations as well as offering an in-depth look at China’s modern global relations. Among the key issues explored in this edition…

Paperback – 2019-07-04 
Routledge

By Ulv Hanssen

Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan’s history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar period, whilst providing an explanation for the much-debated security policy changes under Abe Shinzō.…

Hardback – 2019-07-03 
Routledge
European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series

By Joseph Otieno Wasonga

This book interrogates the sharp contrast that emerged between demands of the norms of international rule of law and the interests of conflict resolution at a local level in northern Uganda. Examining how the nature and character of complex conflict situations like that of northern Uganda…

Hardback – 2019-07-01 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Africa

By Lindsay C. Clark

This book investigates how drone warfare is deeply gendered and how this can be explored through the methodological framework of ‘Haunting’. Utilising original interview data from British Reaper drone crews, the book analyses the way killing by drones complicates traditional understandings of…

Hardback – 2019-06-25 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Gender and Security

Edited by John O'Loughlin, Ralph S. Clem

This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship between Russia, by far the dominant economic and military…

Hardback – 2019-06-06 
Routledge

By Mark Busser

This book critically examines arguments about ‘obligation’ and ‘responsibility’ in relation to the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and situates it within wider moral argumentation concerning the role of culpability, answerability, and human rights in international affairs. It discusses the ways in…

Hardback – 2019-06-04 
Routledge
Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect

Edited by Rajesh Basrur, Anit Mukherjee, T.V. Paul

This edited volume critically examines the concept of 'security dilemma' and its effects on India-China maritime competition. While the security dilemma between India and China has frequently been used in academic discussions and popular commentary, it has rarely been critically analysed. This…

Hardback – 2019-05-28 
Routledge
Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

By Daniel Rietiker

Despite clear legal rules and political commitments, no significant progress has been made in nuclear disarmament for two decades. Moreover, not even the use of these weapons has been banned to date. New ideas and strategies are therefore necessary. The author explores an alternative approach to…

Paperback – 2019-05-28 
Routledge

By Paul Sharp

This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy and its vital role in an era of increasing international uncertainty. The work employs a distinctive 'diplomatic perspective' on international relations and argues that the experience of conducting diplomacy gives rise to a…

Paperback – 2019-05-27 
Routledge