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.
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 ...
George W. Bush's Foreign Policies: Principles and Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Donette Murray, David Brown, Martin A. 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 ...
Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War: Cruise Missiles and US Security Policy
1st Edition
By Reuben E. Brigety II
April 16, 2019
A new investigation into how the advent of precision-guided munitions affects the likelihood of US policy makers to use force. As such, this is an inquiry into the impact of ethics, strategy and military technology on the decision calculus of national leaders. Following the first Gulf War in ...
Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy: A New Framework for Analysis
1st Edition
By Johannes Gullestad Rø
August 10, 2018
This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making. Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental ...
Prosecuting War Crimes: Lessons and legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
1st Edition
Edited
By James Gow, Rachel Kerr, Zoran Pajic
December 18, 2017
This volume examines the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was created under Chapter VII of the UN Charter as a mechanism explicitly aimed at the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security. As the ICTY has now entered ...
Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević: The Unfinished Trial
1st Edition
By Nevenka Tromp
December 13, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). With the premature death of Milošević in March 2006 his trial was left unfinished. Although the traditional objectives of ...
Transitional Justice, Peace and Accountability: Outreach and the Role of International Courts after Conflict
1st Edition
By Jessica Lincoln
May 18, 2017
The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice. This book critically examines the role of outreach within international justice focusing specifically on the role of outreach at the ...