CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
About the Book Series
The CSS Studies in Security and International Relations examines historical and contemporary aspects of security and conflict. The series provides a forum for new research based upon an expanded conception of security and will include monographs by the Center's research staff and associated academic partners.
The Politics and Science of Prevision: Governing and Probing the Future
1st Edition
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By Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty
October 04, 2024
This book inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policy-making across different fields. The volume focuses on the key intricacies and fallacies of prevision in a time of complexity, uncertainty, and ...
Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation
1st Edition
Edited
By Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Andreas Wenger
May 27, 2024
This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation. Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses ...
Inter-organizational Relations in International Security: Cooperation and Competition
1st Edition
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By Stephen Aris, Aglaya Snetkov, Andreas Wenger
September 30, 2020
This book examines the politics of the relationships between multilateral organizations that have come to play a major role in contemporary efforts to manage international security.Drawing on concepts developed in Organizational Studies, the book starts from the assumption that inter-organizational...
Strategic Culture, Securitisation and the Use of Force: Post-9/11 Security Practices of Liberal Democracies
1st Edition
By Wilhelm Mirow
June 30, 2020
This book investigates, and explains, the extent to which different liberal democracies have resorted to the use of force since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.The responses of democratic states throughout the world to the September 2001 terrorist attacks have varied greatly. This book analyses the ...
Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Origins of the Nuclear Order
1st Edition
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By Roland Popp, Liviu Horovitz, Andreas Wenger
March 14, 2018
This volume offers a critical historical assessment of the negotiation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and of the origins of the nonproliferation regime. The NPT has been signed by 190 states and was indefinitely extended in 1995, rendering it the most successful ...
Russia's Security Policy under Putin: A critical perspective
1st Edition
By Aglaya Snetkov
June 28, 2016
This book examines the evolution of Russia’s security policy under Putin in the 21st century, using a critical security studies approach. Drawing on critical approaches to security the book investigates the interrelationship between the internal-external nexus and the politics of (in)security and ...
Peacekeeping in Africa: The evolving security architecture
1st Edition
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By Marco Wyss, Thierry Tardy
August 25, 2015
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 ...
Regional Organisations and Security: Conceptions and practices
1st Edition
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By Stephen Aris, Andreas Wenger
July 16, 2015
This book aims to examine the conceptions and practices of security adopted by Regional Organisations (ROs) across the globe. Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an increased focus on regions as a relevant realm for security, with actors within regional contexts identifying a significant...
The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation: A pragmatist framework for analysis
1st Edition
By Ursula Jasper
July 16, 2015
This book examines the puzzle of why some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others refrain from trying to do so – or even renounce them. Based on the predominant theoretical thinking in International Relations it is often assumed that nuclear proliferation is inevitable, given the anarchic ...
US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry
1st Edition
By Cornelius Friesendorf
April 23, 2015
This book examines the geographic displacement of the illicit drug industry as a side effect of United States foreign policy. To reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin from abroad, the US has relied on coercion against farmers, traffickers and governments, but this has only exacerbated the world's...
Securing 'the Homeland': Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security
1st Edition
By Myriam Anna Dunn, Kristian Søby Kristensen
December 01, 2014
This edited volume uses a ‘constructivist/reflexive’ approach to address critical infrastructure protection (CIP), a central political practice associated with national security. The politics of CIP, and the construction of the threat they are meant to counter, effectively establish a powerful ...
EU Foreign Policymaking and the Middle East Conflict: The Europeanization of national foreign policy
1st Edition
By Patrick Müller
October 03, 2013
This book examines the interplay between the national and the European levels in EU foreign policymaking, focusing on the Middle East. European engagement in peacemaking in the Middle East dates back to foreign-policy cooperation in the early 1970s. Following the launch of the peace process in ...