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.
Russia's Foreign Security Policy in the 21st Century: Putin, Medvedev and Beyond
1st Edition
By Marcel De Haas
June 06, 2011
This book examines Russia’s external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond.The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia’s background in the former Soviet Union as well as close ...
US Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View
1st Edition
By Joshua A. Geltzer
April 21, 2011
This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda. Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what ...
Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Katona, John P. Sullivan, Michael D. Intriligator
March 14, 2011
This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, ...
Legitimising the Use of Force in International Politics: Kosovo, Iraq and the Ethics of Intervention
1st Edition
By Corneliu Bjola
January 27, 2011
This book aims to examine the conditions under which the decision to use force can be reckoned as legitimate in international relations. Drawing on communicative action theory, it provides a provocative answer to the hotly contested question of how to understand the legitimacy of the use of force ...
Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Revolution in Accountability
1st Edition
By Chandra Lekha Sriram
December 13, 2010
This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its ramifications. With a detailed overview of the contemporary practice of universal jurisdiction, it discerns three trends at work: pure universal ...
America and Iraq: Policy-making, Intervention and Regional Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By David Ryan, Patrick Kiely
December 06, 2010
This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of ...
US Foreign Policy and Iran: American-Iranian Relations since the Islamic Revolution
1st Edition
By Donette Murray
November 01, 2010
US Foreign Policy and Iran is a study of US foreign policy decision-making in relation to Iran and its implications for Middle Eastern relations. It offers a new assessment of US-Iranian relations by exploring the rationale, effectiveness and consequences of American policy towards Iran from the ...
Territory, War, and Peace
1st Edition
By John A. Vasquez, Marie T. Henehan
August 16, 2010
This book presents a collection of new and updated essays on what has come to be known as the territorial explanation of war. The book argues that a key both to peace and to war lies in understanding the role territory plays as a source of conflict and inter-group violence. Of all the issues that ...
Women and Political Violence: Female Combatants in Ethno-National Conflict
1st Edition
By Miranda Alison
August 11, 2010
This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conflicts. Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been ...
Clinton's Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000
1st Edition
By John Dumbrell
August 10, 2010
This volume is a detailed account of President Clinton's foreign policy during 1992-2000, covering the main substantive issues of his administration, including Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo. The book emphasizes Clinton's adaptation of the elder Bush's 'New World Order' outlook and his relationship to ...
NATO, Security and Risk Management: From Kosovo to Khandahar
1st Edition
By M.J. Williams
July 14, 2010
This new volume explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book offers a unified theory of cooperation in the new security paradigm to explain the current state of transatlantic relations and NATO’s failure to ...
European Security in a Global Context: Internal and External Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
By Thierry Tardy
June 09, 2010
This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China ...