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.
Information Strategy and Warfare: A Guide to Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By John Arquilla, Douglas A. Borer
June 29, 2009
This volume develops information strategy as a construct equal in importance to military strategy as an influential tool of statecraft. John Arquilla and Douglas A. Borer explore three principal themes: the rise of the ‘information domain’ and information strategy as an equal partner alongside ...
Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations: No Job for a Soldier?
1st Edition
By James V. Arbuckle
April 29, 2009
A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and professionals engaged in the field. This book clearly shows us that: neither military nor civilian agencies can act effectively alone in resolving ...
Changing Transatlantic Security Relations: Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson
January 30, 2009
This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely...
European Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge of Multipolarity
1st Edition
By Adrian Hyde-Price
January 30, 2009
Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed empirical case-studies, this book provides an original view of the challenges and threats to a stable peace order in Europe. The end of Cold War bipolarity has transformed Europe. Using structural realist theory, Adrian Hyde-Price ...
Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century: Altered Images and Deception Operations
1st Edition
By Scot Macdonald
January 30, 2009
This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations. In the past, propagandists and those seeking to conduct deception operations used crude methods to alter images of real people, events and...
Theoretical Roots of US Foreign Policy: Machiavelli and American Unilateralism
1st Edition
By Thomas M. Kane
January 30, 2009
This volume explores the reasons why American leaders from the 1700s onwards frequently adopt policies of unilateralism. Thomas M. Kane presents fresh explanations for America’s invasion of Iraq and defiance of international agreements, which go much deeper than conventional critiques of ...
War as Risk Management: Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks
1st Edition
By Yee-Kuang Heng
January 30, 2009
This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response. It addresses why the study of ‘risk management’ has helped fields such as sociology and criminology conceptualize new policy challenges but has made ...
America, the EU and Strategic Culture: Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain
1st Edition
By Asle Toje
January 06, 2009
This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the lessons learnt in interacting with America have been crucial in shaping the emerging EU strategic culture. The book ...
War, Torture and Terrorism: Rethinking the Rules of International Security
1st Edition
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By Anthony F. Lang, Jr., Amanda Russell Beattie
December 02, 2008
This book seeks to demonstrate how rules not only guide a variety of practices within international politics but also contribute to the chaos and tension on the part of agents in light of the structures they sustain. Four central themes- practice, legitimacy, regulation, and responsibility- reflect...
International Law and the Use of Armed Force: The UN Charter and the Major Powers
1st Edition
By Joel Westra
November 15, 2008
Since the UN Charter came into effect in 1945, there have been numerous incidents in which one or more of the five major powers (at least arguably) violated the Charter's Article 2(4) prohibition of force. Such incidents notwithstanding, this book demonstrates how the Charter restrains the major ...
Small Arms and Security: New Emerging International Norms
1st Edition
By Denise Garcia
November 15, 2008
This book examines the emergence of new international norms to govern the spread of small arms, and the extent to which these norms have been established in the policies and practices of states, regions and international organizations. It also attempts to establish criteria for assessing norm ...
War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice: The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremburg Legacy
1st Edition
By Madoka Futamura
November 15, 2008
Advocates of the ‘Nuremberg legacy’ emphasize the positive impact of the individualization of responsibility and the establishment of an historical record through judicial procedures for ‘war crimes’. This legacy has been cited in the context of the establishment and operation of the UN ad hoc ...