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.
Media Strategy and Military Operations in the 21st Century: Mediatizing the Israel Defence Forces
1st Edition
By Michal Shavit
August 14, 2020
This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Since the beginning of the 21st century the IDF has undergone an intensive process of mediatization that has transformed the media into an ...
Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Mapping a Multipolar World?
1st Edition
Edited
By Donette Murray, David Brown
August 14, 2020
This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative ‘poles’ of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and authoritative analysis of one of the most ...
Deterring Russia in Europe: Defence Strategies for Neighbouring States
1st Edition
Edited
By Nora Vanaga, Toms Rostoks
June 30, 2020
This edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention.Deterrence, after being largely absent from debates among academics and policy-makers for almost a quarter of a century, has made a comeback in Europe. Since ...
Quasi-state Entities and International Criminal Justice: Legitimising Narratives and Counter-Narratives
1st Edition
By Ernst Dijxhoorn
December 12, 2019
This book explores the intended and unintended impact of international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state entities (QSEs). In order to do so, the concept of ‘quasi-state entity’ is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts that aspire to statehood, and fulfil statehood ...
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 ...
Ethics, Law and Justifying Targeted Killings: The Obama Administration at War
1st Edition
By Jack McDonald
April 09, 2018
This book examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings. It questions whether the Obama administration’s defence of its use of targeted killings is cohesive or hypocritical. In doing so, the book departs from the disciplinary purpose of international law, ...
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 ...
Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning domestic support for the Afghan War
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatrice De Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose
August 23, 2016
This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, ...
Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By William Maley, Susanne Schmeidl
June 28, 2016
This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The book has three main themes. Firstly, the volume analyses why the ways in which civil and military actors interact in...