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.
Prosecutorial Discretion in the International Criminal Court: Legitimacy and the Politics of Justice
1st Edition
By Farid Mohammed Rashid
September 25, 2023
This book provides the first scholarly investigation of prosecutorial discretion in the International Criminal Court (ICC) from an interdisciplinary perspective. This work analyses the discretionary power of the ICC prosecutor and its scope. It explains that there is a tendency to overlook the ...
Militia Order in Afghanistan: Guardians or Gangsters?
1st Edition
By Matthew P. Dearing
May 31, 2023
This book offers a new insight into when and why paramilitary groups in Afghanistan engage in protective or predatory behavior against the civilians they purportedly defend. In Afghanistan’s counterinsurgency environment, America leaned on militias to provide order and stabilize communities cut ...
Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness: Does Fair Play Pay Off?
1st Edition
By Ophir Falk
May 31, 2023
This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror. Targeted killing has become a primary counterterrorism measure used by several countries in their confrontation with lethal threats. The practice has been extensively used by the US in ...
NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Foreign and Security Policy Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Testoni
January 09, 2023
This book explores the evolution and future relevance of NATO from the perspective of the member-states. Addressing the overarching question of the relevance of transatlantic relations in the 21st century, the volume has three core objectives. The first is to reinforce the view that international ...
Impact in International Affairs: The Quest for World-Leading Research
1st Edition
By James Gow, Henry Redwood
August 01, 2022
This book examines how and to what extent academic research in politics and international studies has had 'impact' — in doing so, it also considers what might characterise ‘world-leading’ research impact. International Relations was always meant to have impact – it was intended to make a difference...
Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Kerr, Henry Redwood, James Gow
August 01, 2022
This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, ...
Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding: Actor-Contingent and Malleable Justice
1st Edition
By Djeyhoun Ostowar
May 30, 2022
This book explores the role of actors in determining transitional justice in peacebuilding contexts. In recent decades, transitional justice mechanisms and processes have been introduced to a variety of settings, becoming widely regarded as essential elements in the ‘peacebuilding toolbox’. While ...
Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin’s Operational Code
1st Edition
By Graeme P. Herd
January 28, 2022
This book examines the extent to which Russia’s strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin’s own operational code. The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national ...
Russian Imperialism Revisited: From Disengagement to Hegemony
1st Edition
By Domitilla Sagramoso
December 13, 2021
This book examines the nature of Russia’s relations with the former Soviet states (FSS), in particular with countries which formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, in order to assess whether there has been a resurgence of Russian imperialism since the collapse of the USSR.The book ...
British Defence in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By John Louth, Trevor Taylor
March 31, 2021
This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society, and technology, as well as the military.Building upon wide-ranging applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy makers, senior military commanders, and ...
George W. Bush's Foreign Policies: Principles and Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Donette Murray, David Brown, Martin Smith
March 31, 2021
This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush’s foreign policies. It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Instead, the analysis will focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record, in each case considering the ...
Cultures of Counterterrorism: French and Italian Responses to Terrorism after 9/11
1st Edition
By Silvia D'Amato
December 18, 2020
This book investigates counterterrorism responses from a strategic-culturalist perspective, focusing on France and Italy in the post-9/11 era. Terrorism occupies a predominant space within contemporary political debate across all European countries. Recent attacks in Europe have raised many ...