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.
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
Edited
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 ...
The EU, the UN and Collective Security: Making Multilateralism Effective
1st Edition
Edited
By Joachim Krause, Natalino Ronzitti
November 08, 2013
This book examines the effectiveness of multilateralism in ensuring collective security and, in particular, the EU’s role in this process. In 1992, shortly after the end of the Cold War, a Security Council Summit in New York reaffirmed the salience of the system of collective security and stated ...
Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest
1st Edition
By Erwan Lagadec
November 08, 2013
This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century. The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have ...
International Law, Security and Ethics: Policy Challenges in the post-9/11 World
1st Edition
Edited
By Aidan Hehir, Natasha Kuhrt, Andrew Mumford
October 25, 2013
This book examines the different ways in which the laws governing the use of force and the conduct of warfare have become subject to intense scrutiny and contestation since the initiation of the war on terror. Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of security challenges has changed radically ...
Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity
1st Edition
By Brian Rappert
October 23, 2013
A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to ...
Multipolarity in the 21st Century: A New World Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Donette Murray, David Brown
October 03, 2013
This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do. As the twenty-first century moves out of its first decade, American supremacy ...
US Hegemony and International Legitimacy: Norms, Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq
1st Edition
By Lavina Rajendram Lee
September 20, 2013
This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq. The preference for unilateral action in foreign policy under the Bush Administration, culminating in the use of force against Iraq in 2003, has unquestionably ...
Understanding Emerging Security Challenges: Threats and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Ashok Swain
July 31, 2013
This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed...
The EU and the European Security Order: Interfacing Security Actors
1st Edition
By Rikard Bengtsson
May 31, 2013
This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security. Drawing on constructivist theory, the framework of the book focuses on the meeting - or 'interface' - of actors, a situation reflecting the mutual construction of self, other and situation. The analytical ...
Kennedy, Johnson and NATO: Britain, America and the Dynamics of Alliance, 1962-68
1st Edition
By Andrew Priest
November 28, 2012
Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security. Andrew Priest closely examines this key relationship by focusing on the so-called Nassau agreement of December 1962. He clearly places...
Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict: Myth, Falsehood and Deceit 1991-1995
1st Edition
By Brendan O'Shea
November 01, 2012
In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the ...