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.
The Iraq War: European Perspectives on Politics, Strategy and Operations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson
September 22, 2005
We are living amidst the fallout of the most controversial conflict of our times. This book is a tough examination of how and why it was fought and of its continuing effects.This major new work contains analysis of the Iraq War from several different academic, as well as military perspectives....
Missile Defence: International, Regional and National Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Sten Rynning, Bertel Heurlin
August 24, 2005
The missile defence policy of the US plays a crucial role in international affairs and is normally studied from a US perspective. This book is different, it delivers a sharp analysis of regional and national variations and integrates them with US viewpoints to present a&...
The Rift Between America and Old Europe: The Distracted Eagle
1st Edition
By Peter Merkl
August 10, 2005
This new book explains the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with Germany and France. Particular attention is devoted to the several competing interpretations of the Euro-American rift, for example, that Europeans were taken aback when American ...
The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia
1st Edition
By Tim Donais
August 01, 2005
A fresh examination of the political economy of the peacebuilding process in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the aftermath of the country's 1992-95 war. Little progress has been made in transforming the country's war-shattered economy into a functioning market economy, this new study explains ...
Propaganda, the Press and Conflict: The Gulf War and Kosovo
1st Edition
By David R. Willcox
July 19, 2005
An incisive analysis of the use of the press for propaganda purposes during conflicts, using the first Gulf War and the intervention in Kosovo as case studies. As the contemporary analysis of propaganda during conflict has tended to focus considerably upon visual and instant media ...
NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Daniele Ganser
February 03, 2005
This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. These secret soldiers were trained ...
Russian Governance in the 21st Century: Geo-Strategy, Geopolitics and New Governance
1st Edition
By Irina Isakova
January 11, 2005
A stimulating new analysis of the dramatic systemic changes of the Russian state, principles of the governance and its foreign policy orientation. It reviews the extent of changes in Russian approaches to geopolitics and the most appropriate geopolitical development patterns that influenced ...
Russian Governance in the 21st Century: Geo-Strategy, Geopolitics and New Governance
1st Edition
By Irina Isakova
January 11, 2005
First published in 2006. A stimulating new analysis of the dramatic systemic changes of the Russian state, principles of the governance and its foreign policy orientation. It reviews the extent of changes in Russian approaches to geopolitics and the most appropriate geopolitical development ...
Rethinking the Nature of War
1st Edition
By Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn
December 23, 2004
Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have ...