Contemporary Security Studies
About the Book Series
This series focuses on new research across the spectrum of international peace and security, in an era where each year throws up multiple examples of conflicts that present new security challenges in the world around them.
Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts
1st Edition
Edited
By David Ryan, John Dumbrell
December 06, 2006
More than most post-1970 conflicts involving US forces, the conflict in Iraq has been fought out against a background of frequently invoked memories from the era of the Vietnam War. The essays in this book offer a series of perspectives on connections and parallels between the Vietnam War and the ...
The United States and Europe: Beyond the Neo-Conservative Divide?
1st Edition
Edited
By John Baylis, Jon Roper
November 21, 2006
A penetrating new examination of the triangular political and cultural relationship between America, Britain, and continental Europe. This relationship is both fraught and dynamic. Post-war reconstruction of Europe brought integration. Creating a ‘United States of Europe’ was a goal ...
Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions
1st Edition
By Brynjar Lia
August 30, 2006
Drawing upon new research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a new practical predictive perspective, Brynjar Lia delivers a fresh and fascinating contribution to terrorism studies. Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism shows...
Globalization and Conflict: National Security in a 'New' Strategic Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Patman
August 23, 2006
This volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centred national security favoured by Washington, showing how a Cold War phenomenon known as the national security state, in which defence and foreign policy interests essentially converge, remains largely ...
Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Post-War Societies: Sustaining the Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By T. David Mason, James D. Meernik
February 09, 2006
This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits, consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from violent conflict. The rationale for this comes from the growing realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of 9/11, our understanding of conflict and ...
Military Nanotechnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control
1st Edition
By Jürgen Altmann
February 09, 2006
With revolutionary changes in nanotechnology (NT) now on the horizon, many countries have started major research and development (R&D) programmes, which are mainly civilian. Often overlooked are military R&D programmes – in particular those of the US government. This is the first systematic...
Europeanization of National Security Identity: The EU and the changing security identities of the Nordic states
1st Edition
By Pernille Rieker
January 27, 2006
This new book tackles two key questions: 1) How is the EU functioning as a security actor? 2) How and to what extent is the EU affecting national security identities? Focusing on the four largest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), this incisive study analyzes how and to what ...
Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Owen L. Sirrs
January 20, 2006
Egyptian efforts to acquire long-range surface-to-surface missiles in the early 1960s carry important lessons for our time, when weapons of mass destruction and charges of politicizing intelligence are key issues. This new study traces the history of the early Egyptian ballistic missile ...
Striving for Military Stability in Europe: Negotiation, Implementation and Adaptation of the CFE Treaty
1st Edition
By Jane M. O. Sharp
January 13, 2006
This new book traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, and focuses on the negotiation, implementation and adaptation of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. It shows that arms control agreements reflect rather than ...
NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Regional Alliance, Global Threats
1st Edition
By Eric Terzuolo
December 16, 2005
NATO was hugely successful in facing off the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But has it been equally successful in addressing the "new threats" of the post-Cold War era? This new study assesses the organization’s political and military initiatives, and how its outreach to Russia, Ukraine, and ...
The Waning of Major War: Theories and Debates
1st Edition
Edited
By Raimo Vayrynen
December 16, 2005
This book is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and explore whether it is waxing or waning. The main point of departure is that major-power war as a historical institution is in decline. This does not mean, though, that wars between states...
Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East: Strategic Contest
1st Edition
By Richard L. Russell
November 07, 2005
This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East. It examines the uses and limitations of chemical weapons in regional combat, ballistic missile ...