Military, Strategic & Security Studies

Edited by Marco Wyss, Thierry Tardy

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of peacekeeping in Africa. Recent events in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mali remind us that violence remains endemic and continues to hamper the institutional, social and economic development of the African continent. Over the years, an…

Paperback – 2015-08-26
Routledge
CSS Studies in Security and International Relations

Edited by Peter Schmidt, Benjamin Zyla

With the Lisbon Treaty in place and the European Union increasingly involved in international crisis management and stabilization operations in places near and far, this volume revisits the trajectory of a European strategic culture. Specifically, it studies the usefulness of its application in a…

Paperback – 2015-08-14
Routledge

Edited by Gerald Schneider, Nils Petter Gleditsch

Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful. According to this adage, the contract intensity of capitalist societies and the openness of the economy are among…

Paperback – 2015-08-14
Routledge

Edited by James J.F. Forest

During the last ten years an increasing number of government and media reports, scholarly books and journal articles, and other publications have focused our attention on the expanded range of interactions between international organized crime and terrorist networks. A majority of these…

Paperback – 2015-08-14
Routledge

Edited by Keith B. Payne

For decades, the rational actor model served as the preferred guide for U.S. deterrence policy. It has been a convenient and comforting guide because it requires little detailed knowledge of an opponent’s unique decision-making process and yet typically provides confident generalizations about how…

Paperback – 2015-08-14
Routledge

Edited by Veronique Dudouet

This book investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie the strategic shifts of armed movements from violent to nonviolent resistance. The revival of global interest in the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle since the 2011 Arab Spring offers a welcome…

Paperback – 2015-08-04
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

Edited by The International Institute of Strategic Studies IISS

The Strategic Survey is the annual review of world affairs from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.  It is an invaluable tool for interpreting world-wide strategic developments and has, since 1966, provided essential analysis of the year’s key events in international relations…

Paperback – 2016-09-27
Routledge
Strategic Survey

Edited by Michael J. Fagel, Jennifer Hesterman

Uniting the best of Michael Fagel and Jennifer Hesterman's books in the fields of homeland security and emergency management, the editors of this volume present the prevailing issues affecting the homeland security community today. Many natural and man-made threats can impact our communities—but…

Hardback – 2016-09-15
CRC Press

By Carl Boggs

The post-World War II emergence of a full-blown state of perpetual war is arguably the most important feature of contemporary American politics. This book examines the "warfare state" in terms of a broad ensemble of structures, policies, and ideologies: permanent war economy, national…

Paperback – 2016-09-01
Routledge