Adelphi series
About the Book Series
The Adelphi series is The International Institute for Strategic Studies' flagship contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research.
Six books are published each year. They provide rigorous analysis of contemporary strategic and defence topics that is useful to politicians and diplomats, as well as academic researchers, foreign-affairs analysts, defence commentators and journalists.
North Korean Reform: Politics, Economics and Security
1st Edition
By Robert L. Carlin, Joel Wit
December 22, 2010
In the past, foreign policy and security concerns have trumped any efforts to reform the North Korean economy. Today, the linkage between security and economic policies is being reconsidered as part of a larger debate in the North Korean leadership that has already transformed the country in ...
Regulating the Private Security Industry
1st Edition
By Sarah Percy
December 22, 2010
The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the debate by explaining why the industry requires further regulation, and what is wrong with the current system. It begins by briefly defining the ...
Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives
1st Edition
By Mats Berdal, Achim Wennmann
November 09, 2010
The transition from war to peace is fraught with tension and the risk of a return to bloodshed. With so much at stake, it is crucial that the international community and local stakeholders make sense of the complex mosaic of challenges, to support a lasting, inclusive and prosperous peace. Recent ...
Sanctions as Grand Strategy
1st Edition
By Brendan Taylor
June 22, 2010
Economic sanctions are becoming increasingly central to shaping strategic outcomes in the twenty-first century. They afford great powers a means by which to seek to influence the behaviour of states, to demonstrate international leadership and to express common values for the benefit of the ...
Towards Nuclear Zero
1st Edition
By Raimo Väyrynen, David Cortright
June 22, 2010
Rarely in the atomic age have hopes been raised as high as they are now for genuine progress toward disarmament. The new receptivity reflected in the policy declarations of many governments was sparked by a wave of private initiatives led by former senior policy leaders in many countries. This ...
Climate Conflict: How Global Warming Threatens Security and What to Do about It
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Mazo
May 12, 2010
Climate change has been a key factor in the rise and fall of societies and states from prehistory to the recent fighting in the Sudanese state of Darfur. It drives instability, conflict and collapse, but also expansion and reorganisation. The ways cultures have met the climate challenge provide ...
Building Asia’s Security
1st Edition
By Nick Bisley
February 19, 2010
This book provides a systematic analysis of the current state and future trajectory of security cooperation in the world’s most economically dynamic and strategically uncertain region. It explains the rapid rise of a complex array of security mechanisms in Asia and argues that their limited ...
Building Peace After War
1st Edition
By Mats Berdal
October 26, 2009
The widespread practice of intervention by outside actors aimed at building ‘sustainable peace’ within societies ravaged by war has been a striking feature of the post-Cold War era. But, at a time when more peacekeepers are deployed around the world than at any other point in history, is the ...
Transforming Pakistan: Ways Out of Instability
1st Edition
By Hilary Synnott
September 29, 2009
This book argues that any strategy for dealing with Pakistan requires an understanding of the country’s complex and turbulent history and of the weaknesses of its political and other institutions. It describes how, in the absence of an inherent national identity, successive military and civilian ...
Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
1st Edition
By Ahmed S. Hashim
July 30, 2009
From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. This paper explains the onset, composition and evolution of this insurgency. It begins by addressing both its immediate and deeper sociopolitical ...
China's African Challenges
1st Edition
By Sarah Raine
July 15, 2009
China’s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China’s oil imports, and China is Africa’s second-largest single-country trading partner, as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. ...
Japan's Remilitarisation
1st Edition
By Christopher W. Hughes
June 24, 2009
Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi? In this book, Christopher W. Hughes assesses developments in defence expenditure, civil–military relations, domestic and...