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Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

The Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies series is part of Routledge’s Major Works publishing programme.

Designed to meet research, reference, and teaching needs across the humanities and social sciences, Routledge Major Works gather together the best and most influential work on particular concepts, subjects, and individuals. Each Routledge Major Work is edited by a leading scholar in the field to create a ‘mini library’—generally a set of four or five volumes. The sets consist of a careful selection of previously published articles from a variety of journals, excerpts or chapters from previously published books, and materials from other sources which together provide users with historical purchase on the concept, subject, or individual in question, as well as a thorough overview of current issues.

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The Cold War

Edited by Steven Casey

Series: Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) The Cold War dominated international politics between 1945 and 1990, when the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union, vied for supremacy. Their clash profoundly influenced the main trends of the time, including...

Published June 24th 2013 by Routledge
Health Security and Governance

Edited by Nicholas Thomas

Series: Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

It is increasingly recognized that the pandemic potential of many diseases holds the power to wreck economies, divide societies, and, indeed, to jeopardize the viability of nation states. In consequence, there is a growing—and urgent—need to understand and address such threats. As research in and...

Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
Critical Security Studies

Edited by Nick Vaughan-Williams, Columba Peoples

Series: Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Although prominent—some would argue pre-eminent—within the modern political lexicon, the concept of ‘security’ is complex and contested. While the meaning and reference point of security was once largely taken for granted within International Relations, the past thirty years or so have witnessed...

Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Security and Stability in the Middle East

Edited by Barry Rubin

Series: Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

No region of the world has been more affected by the forces of instability and the factors of war and insecurity than has the Middle East. The area has seen more violence and conflict in the last three or four decades than all of the other world regions put together. Moreover, conflict in the area...

Published December 22nd 2011 by Routledge
Intelligence

Edited by Loch K. Johnson

Series: Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

Many experts on security intelligence distinguish ‘mysteries’ from ‘secrets’. Mysteries (e.g. can Pakistan survive the threat it faces from the presence of insurgents in its western provinces?) are worldly phenomena that governments may wish to understand, but which are difficult to fathom given...

Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge