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By Domitilla Sagramoso

By examining Russia’s military, economic, political, and diplomatic policies towards the former Soviet states since 1991, this book assesses whether Russian leaders have been able to discard the country’s imperial legacy.…

Hardback – 2016-09-30 
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By Jack McDonald

This book examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings. It questions whether the Obama administration’s defence of its use of targeted killings is cohesive or hypocritical. In doing so, the book departs from the disciplinary purpose of international law,…

Hardback – 2016-08-03 
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By Michal Shavit

This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Force (IDF). Since the beginning of the 21st century the IDF has undergone an intensive process of mediatization that has transformed the media into an…

Hardback – 2016-07-20 
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Edited by William Maley, Susanne Schmeidl

This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The book has three main themes. Firstly, the volume analyses why the ways in which civil and military actors interact in…

Paperback – 2016-06-30 
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By Reuben E. Brigety II

A new investigation into how the advent of precision-guided munitions affects the likelihood of US policy makers to use force. As such, this is an inquiry into the impact of ethics, strategy and military technology on the decision calculus of national leaders. Following the first Gulf War in…

Paperback – 2016-06-01 
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By Nevenka Tromp

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Miloševic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). With the premature death of Miloševic in March 2006 his trial was left unfinished. Although the traditional objectives of…

Hardback – 2016-04-21 
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By Iosif Kovras

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation. Despite democratisation, the exhumation of mass graves containing the victims from the violence in Cyprus (1963-1974) and the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) was delayed until the…

Paperback – 2016-01-21
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Edited by Kjell Engelbrekt, Marcus Mohlin, Charlotte Wagnsson

This book explores ‘lessons learned’ from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO’s intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an explicit UN Security Council…

Paperback – 2015-06-09
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By Stephen J. Cimbala, Peter Forster

This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of…

Paperback – 2015-05-08
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By Antony Lamb

This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds…

Paperback – 2015-04-27
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Edited by James Gow, Funmi Olonisakin, Ernst Dijxhoorn

This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the…

Paperback – 2015-04-27
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Edited by Alan Cromartie

 This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars. The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political…

Hardback – 2015-04-24
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Edited by Beatrice De Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose

This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes,…

Hardback – 2015-02-09
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Edited by Graeme P. Herd, John Kriendler

Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO’s potential evolution in the 21st century. The book seeks to identify the possible contours and trade-offs embedded within a potential third "Transatlantic Bargain…

Paperback – 2014-09-12
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By Thanos P. Dokos

As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the…

Paperback – 2014-08-15
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Edited by Bernard Loo

This book explores the idea of a ‘revolution in military affairs’ (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states. The strategic studies literature on the RMA tends to be American-centric and directed towards the strategic…

Paperback – 2014-07-17
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By Lyubov Grigorova Mincheva, Ted Robert Gurr

This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate. "Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in…

Paperback – 2013-12-06
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Edited by Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard, Patryk Pawlak

This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration. The EU functions in a complex security environment, with perceived security threats from Islamist terrorists, migration…

Paperback – 2013-11-11
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Edited by Joachim Krause, Natalino Ronzitti

This book examines the effectiveness of multilateralism in ensuring collective security and, in particular, the EU’s role in this process. In 1992, shortly after the end of the Cold War, a Security Council Summit in New York reaffirmed the salience of the system of collective security and stated…

Paperback – 2013-11-11
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By Erwan Lagadec

This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century. The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have…

Paperback – 2013-11-11
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Edited by Aidan Hehir, Natasha Kuhrt, Andrew Mumford

This book examines the different ways in which the laws governing the use of force and the conduct of warfare have become subject to intense scrutiny and contestation since the initiation of the war on terror. Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of security challenges has changed radically…

Paperback – 2013-10-29
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By Brian Rappert

A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to…

Paperback – 2013-10-25
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Edited by Donette Murray, David Brown

This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do. As the twenty-first century moves out of its first decade, American supremacy…

Paperback – 2013-10-07
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By Lavina Rajendram Lee

This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq. The preference for unilateral action in foreign policy under the Bush Administration, culminating in the use of force against Iraq in 2003, has unquestionably…

Paperback – 2013-09-23
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Edited by James Gow, Rachel Kerr, Zoran Pajic

This volume examines the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was created under Chapter VII of the UN Charter as a mechanism explicitly aimed at the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security. As the ICTY has now entered…

Hardback – 2013-08-22
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By Ashok Swain

This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed…

Paperback – 2013-08-01
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By Rikard Bengtsson

This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security. Drawing on constructivist theory, the framework of the book focuses on the meeting - or 'interface' - of actors, a situation reflecting the mutual construction of self, other and situation. The analytical…

Paperback – 2013-05-31
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By Johannes Gullestad Rø

This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making. Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental…

Hardback – 2013-05-30
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By Andrew Priest

Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security. Andrew Priest closely examines this key relationship by focusing on the so-called Nassau agreement of December 1962. He clearly places…

Paperback – 2012-11-30
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By Irina Isakova

A stimulating new analysis of the dramatic systemic changes of the Russian state, principles of the governance and its foreign policy orientation. It reviews the extent of changes in Russian approaches to geopolitics and the most appropriate geopolitical development patterns that influenced…

Paperback – 2012-11-30
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By Brendan O'Shea

In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the…

Paperback – 2012-11-02
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Edited by Michael A. Innes

Featuring fresh contributions from leading scholars, this new volume considers a varied range of post-war, post-Dayton and post-9/11 problems and issues, reminding readers that Dayton is not the only challenge to the safety, stability, and long-term viability of the post-war Bosnian state. Drawing…

Paperback – 2012-10-22
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By Lionel Ponsard

This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture. Lionel Ponsard clearly demonstrates how cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic…

Paperback – 2012-09-13
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Edited by Annika Bergman-Rosamond, Mark Phythian

This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world. There is a lively debate in contemporary international relations concerning the relationship between statist obligations to one’s own political community and cosmopolitan duties to…

Paperback – 2012-07-23
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By Craig Gerrard

The book looks at the ways in which the Northern Department of the Foreign Office approached matters pertaining to Finland in the years 1938-1940, concentrating on the particular issues of the proposed refortification of the Åland Islands, Finnish rearmament and aid to Finland during the Winter War…

Paperback – 2012-07-13
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By Gordon Adams, Guy Ben-Ari

A unique look at European Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) and their implications for transatlantic co-operation in future operations. Gordon Adams and Guy Ben-Ari identify the key requirements for improvement of Europe’s abilities as an international actor. They focus on national and…

Paperback – 2012-06-29
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By Nicholas Kerton-Johnson

This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author undertakes an examination of presidential speeches and public documents from this period to determine the focal points on…

Paperback – 2012-05-30
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Edited by Funmi Olonisakin, Karen Barnes, Eka Ikpe

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries. UN Resolution 1325 was adopted in October 2000, and was the first time that the security concerns of…

Paperback – 2012-03-22
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Edited by Christopher Daase, Cornelius Friesendorf

This book explores the unintended consequences of security governance actions and explores how their effects can be limited. Security governance describes new modes of security policy that differ from traditional approaches to national and international security. While traditional security policy…

Paperback – 2012-02-21
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By Page Wilson

Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations. This book analyses the evolution of the concept of aggression in international relations from World…

Paperback – 2012-01-31
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By Chiyuki Aoi

This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. In the success of stability operations, legitimacy is key. In order to achieve success, the intervening force must create a sense of…

Paperback – 2011-12-15
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Edited by Charlotte Wagnsson, James Sperling, Jan Hallenberg

This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU. The EU approach to security governance has been successful in its immediate neighbourhood: it has successfully…

Paperback – 2011-11-01
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By Kateri Carmola

This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding ‘service’ industry will have to be adjusted. In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan many of those who carry weapons are not…

Paperback – 2011-06-06
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By Marcel De Haas

This book examines Russia’s external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond.The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia’s background in the former Soviet Union as well as close…

Paperback – 2011-06-06
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By Joshua A. Geltzer

This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda. Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what…

Paperback – 2011-04-15
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By Jessica Lincoln

The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice. This book critically examines the role of outreach within international justice focusing specifically on the role of outreach at the…

Hardback – 2011-03-24
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Edited by Peter Katona, John P. Sullivan, Michael D. Intriligator

This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases,…

Paperback – 2011-03-24
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By Corneliu Bjola

This book aims to examine the conditions under which the decision to use force can be reckoned as legitimate in international relations. Drawing on communicative action theory, it provides a provocative answer to the hotly contested question of how to understand the legitimacy of the use of force…

Paperback – 2011-01-01
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By Chandra Lekha Sriram

This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its ramifications. With a detailed overview of the contemporary practice of universal jurisdiction, it discerns three trends at work: pure universal…

Paperback – 2010-11-30
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Edited by David Ryan, Patrick Kiely

This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of…

Paperback – 2010-09-30
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