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.
South Africa's Post Apartheid Foreign Policy: From Reconciliation to Revival?
1st Edition
By Chris Alden
January 26, 2006
The book presents and analyses South African foreign policy, from the onset of the democratic transition of Nelson Mandela in 1994 to the contemporary period. The focus of the study is on the question of South African leadership in the context of this transition....
Multinational Military Forces: Problems and Prospects
1st Edition
By Roger Palin
November 08, 2005
First Published in 2005. Since the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent end of the Cold War, there has been a marked increase in attention paid to multinational military forces. Adelphi Paper 294 looks at the problems facing multinational forces and operations and the prospects ...
A US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Douglas T. Stuart, William T. Tow
September 26, 2005
First Published in 2005. This is Adelphi Paper 299 and discusses a strategy for the Unites States of America for the continued stability of the Asia-Pacific region. Looking at ways in which the US-dominated system of Asia-Pacific security that evolved during the Cold War must be fundamentally ...
India Redefines its Role
1st Edition
By Shekhar Gupta
September 26, 2005
This work offers analytical examination of the facts that will shape the India of the future and determine whether India emerges as Asia's new economic tiger, a stabilizing factor in a turbulent region, or becomes inward-looking, militaristic and stagnant....
Protracted Refugee Situations: Domestic and International Security Implications
1st Edition
By Gil Loescher, James Milner
September 22, 2005
Protracted refugee populations not only constitute over 70% of the world's refugees but are also a principal source of many of the irregular movements of people around the world today. The long-term presence of refugee populations in much of the developing world has come to be seen by many host ...
Dealing with the Threat of Cruise Missiles
1st Edition
By Dennis M Gormley
July 31, 2005
How can the core transatlantic Allies make coalitions more effective? One year on from Kosovo, disparities in the capabilities of the coalition partners, as well as uneven levels of prior coordination, persist. To address these problems will require much greater force planning in ...
Arming East Russia
1st Edition
By Tim Huxley, Susan Willett
July 27, 2005
During the 1990s, military spending, arms procurement and defence industrialisation have all increased rapidly in East Asia. Although these developments do not constitute an arms race, they nevertheless have important implications for suppliers of defence equipment, for arms control and for ...
Iraq's Future: The Aftermath of Regime Change
1st Edition
By Toby Dodge
July 07, 2005
It is hard to over estimate what is at stake in Iraq today. The removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime in April 2003 has proved to be the beginning, not the culmination, of a long and very uncertain process of state-building. This Adelphi Paper examines this process from a military, political and ...
Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order
1st Edition
By Shahram Chubin, Charles Tripp
June 08, 2005
Both countries will have strong incentives to test the artificial balance established by the US and from which they are excluded. Each state, in the face of continued embargoes, may find the lure of weapons of mass destruction correspondingly increased....
The Future of Africa: A New Order in Sight
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Herbst
May 31, 2005
This book provides a review of recent development in Africa. It reviews NEPAD and the AU and suggests what must be done for African countries to reverse their growth and security trajectories by asking if any African country will establish the prerequisites for sustained high-level growth....
Globalisation and Insurgency
1st Edition
By John Mackinlay
May 24, 2005
The central proposition of this book is that global changes have altered the nature of insurgency by weakening some governments and empowering the forces that seek to overthrow them. The book identifies four distinct categories of insurgent force, and concludes that globalisation of insurgency ...
Context and Circumstance: The Turkish Military and Politics
1st Edition
By Gareth Jenkins
May 17, 2005
Debates about military influence on civilian government tend to be partisan and rarely pay sufficient attention to specific contexts. This paper analyses, without condemnation or justification, why and how the military exercises such influence in Turkey and whether it is likely to continue to do so...