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.
Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice: Deferring human rights issues
1st Edition
By Iosif Kovras
January 20, 2016
This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation. Despite democratisation, the exhumation of mass graves containing the victims from the violence in Cyprus (1963-1974) and the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) was delayed until the ...
The NATO Intervention in Libya: Lessons learned from the campaign
1st Edition
Edited
By Kjell Engelbrekt, Marcus Mohlin, Charlotte Wagnsson
June 08, 2015
This book explores ‘lessons learned’ from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO’s intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an explicit UN Security Council ...
The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing
1st Edition
By Stephen J. Cimbala, Peter Forster
May 07, 2015
This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of ...
Intra-State Conflict, Governments and Security: Dilemmas of Deterrence and Assurance
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen M. Saideman, Marie-Joelle J. Zahar
April 23, 2015
This volume seeks to understand the central role of governments in intra-state conflicts. The book explores how the government in any society plays two pivotal roles: as a deterrent against those who would use violence; and as a potential danger to the society. These roles come into conflict with ...
Liberal Wars: Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice
1st Edition
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By Alan Cromartie
April 23, 2015
This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars. The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political ...
Ethics and the Laws of War: The Moral Justification of Legal Norms
1st Edition
By Antony Lamb
November 10, 2014
This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds ...
Militancy and Violence in West Africa: Religion, politics and radicalisation
1st Edition
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By James Gow, Funmi Olonisakin, Ernst Dijxhoorn
November 10, 2014
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the ...
Understanding NATO in the 21st Century: Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance
1st Edition
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By Graeme Herd, John Kriendler
September 11, 2014
Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO’s potential evolution in the 21st century. The book seeks to identify the possible contours and trade-offs embedded within a potential third "Transatlantic Bargain...
Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: NATO and EU Options in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
1st Edition
By Thanos P. Dokos
August 12, 2014
As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the ...
Military Transformation and Strategy: Revolutions in Military Affairs and Small States
1st Edition
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By Bernard Loo
July 17, 2014
This book explores the idea of a ‘revolution in military affairs’ (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states. The strategic studies literature on the RMA tends to be American-centric and directed towards the strategic ...
Crime-Terror Alliances and the State: Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security
1st Edition
By Lyubov Mincheva, Ted Robert Gurr
December 12, 2013
This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate. "Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in ...
European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making?
1st Edition
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By Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard, Patryk Pawlak
November 08, 2013
This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration. The EU functions in a complex security environment, with perceived security threats from Islamist terrorists, migration ...