Strategic Studies Products

By Daniel H. Katz

This book analyzes examples of strategic engagement in order to identify the factors which contribute to the success or failure of defence diplomacy in preventing interstate conflict. For more than a century, nations have engaged in defence diplomacy to cultivate mutual understanding and mitigate…

Hardback – 2020-04-08 
Routledge
Cass Military Studies

By Antonio Calcara

This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes. The European defence market is characterised by a mixture of inter-state competition and European cooperation, and this work assesses why countries sometimes decide to…

Hardback – 2020-03-27 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy

Edited by Antonis Klapsis, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Effie G. H. Pedaliu

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-74 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change. The policies of the major nation-states in both East and West were determined…

Hardback – 2020-03-24 
Routledge
Cold War History

Edited by Aiden Warren, Philip M. Baxter

This collection examines the extent to which nuclear weapons modernization has become a significant point of concern and consideration in international security. Recent statements and substantial investments by nuclear weapon possessor states in the upkeep and modernization of their nuclear…

Hardback – 2020-03-11 
Routledge
Modern Security Studies

By Daniel Salisbury

This book constitutes an original archival history of government secrecy, public relations and the debate surrounding nuclear weapons in Britain from 1970 to 1983. The book contrasts the secrecy and near-silence of the Heath, Wilson and Callaghan governments on nuclear issues in the 1970s with the…

Hardback – 2020-03-05 
Routledge
Cold War History

By Karsten Friis

This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions. While it is frequently claimed that success in international interventions hinges largely on military–civilian coherence, cooperation has proven…

Hardback – 2020-03-05 
Routledge
Cass Military Studies

Edited by Mikael Wigell, Sören Scholvin, Mika Aaltola

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice. States increasingly practice power politics by…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Global Security Studies

By Peter Davies

This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War. British economic intelligence has a longer pedigree than the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and was the…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Government Official History Series

By Henrik Stålhane Hiim

This book explores China’s approach to the nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea. A major power with access to nuclear technology, China has a significant impact on international nuclear weapons proliferation, but its attitude towards the spread of the bomb has been inconsistent.…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge

Edited by Heinz Gärtner, Mitra Shahmoradi

Drawing on Iran’s history and its relations with great powers and regional neighbours, this book addresses the question of how much continuity and/or change there is in Iranian international relations since the Iranian revolution. Iran has often been at the centre of the political debate on both…

Hardback – 2019-12-09
Routledge
Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

By Jean-François Caron

Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective. Technological developments raise questions about the manner in…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
Routledge
Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs

By Gaurav Kampani

This book examines India’s nuclear program, and it shows how secrecy inhibits learning in states and corrodes the capacity of decision-makers to generate optimal policy choices. Focusing on clandestine Indian nuclear proliferation during 1980–2010, the book argues that efficient decision-making is…

Hardback – 2019-11-27
Routledge
Asian Security Studies