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.
War, Image and Legitimacy: Viewing Contemporary Conflict
1st Edition
By James Gow, Milena Michalski
July 14, 2008
This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conflict affect the legitimacy, conduct and outcome of contemporary warfare? The collapsing Twin Towers of September 11; the hooded figure at the Abu Ghraib...
Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn
July 07, 2008
Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained. It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and ...
Security and the War on Terror
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies, Richard Devetak
December 20, 2007
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point in international politics, representing a new type of threat that could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based structures of security alone. Opening up interdisciplinary conversations between strategic, economic, ...
International Law and International Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas J. Biersteker, Peter J. Spiro, Chandra Lekha Sriram, Veronica I. Raffo
September 21, 2007
This unique volume examines the opportunities for, and initiates work in, interdisciplinary research between the fields of international law and international relations; disciplines that have engaged little with one another since the Second World War. Written by leading experts in the fields ...
The Political Road to War with Iraq: Bush, 9/11 and the Drive to Overthrow Saddam
1st Edition
By Nick Ritchie, Paul Rogers
September 21, 2007
This volume explores in close detail the events and factors leading up to the second Gulf War in 2003 and considers whether war with Iraq was inevitable. Nick Ritchie and Paul Rogers argue that after the election of George W. Bush, conflict between Iraq and the United States was probable, and that...
Corporate Soldiers and International Security: The Rise of Private Military Companies
1st Edition
By Christopher Kinsey
August 31, 2007
This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces. Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the ranks of many European armies right up to the 1850s, the organizations that operated in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s, the...
Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control
1st Edition
By Paul Rogers
August 15, 2007
As the ‘War on Terror’ evolves into the ‘Long War’ against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United States and its allies. This policy is based on the requirement to maintain control in a fractured and unpredictable global environment, while paying ...
Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack Levy, Gary Goertz
July 18, 2007
This edited volume focuses on the use of ‘necessary condition counterfactuals’ in explaining two key events in twentieth century history, the origins of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. Containing essays by leading figures in the field, this book analyzes the causal logics of ...
Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States: US National Security Policy after 9/11
1st Edition
By James H. Lebovic
December 15, 2006
This new study challenges the widely held view that many current US adversaries cannot be deterred, maintaining that deterrence is not a relic of the Cold War period and that it should shape US policies toward so-called ‘rogue states’ and terror groups. James Lebovic argues that deterrence ...
Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts
1st Edition
Edited
By David Ryan, John Dumbrell
December 06, 2006
More than most post-1970 conflicts involving US forces, the conflict in Iraq has been fought out against a background of frequently invoked memories from the era of the Vietnam War. The essays in this book offer a series of perspectives on connections and parallels between the Vietnam War and the ...
The United States and Europe: Beyond the Neo-Conservative Divide?
1st Edition
Edited
By John Baylis, Jon Roper
November 21, 2006
A penetrating new examination of the triangular political and cultural relationship between America, Britain, and continental Europe. This relationship is both fraught and dynamic. Post-war reconstruction of Europe brought integration. Creating a ‘United States of Europe’ was a goal ...
Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions
1st Edition
By Brynjar Lia
August 30, 2006
Drawing upon new research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a new practical predictive perspective, Brynjar Lia delivers a fresh and fascinating contribution to terrorism studies. Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism shows...