Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge Advances in Defence Studies is a multi-disciplinary series examining innovations, disruptions, counter-culture histories, and unconventional approaches to understanding contemporary forms, challenges, logics, frameworks, and technologies of national defence. This is the first series explicitly dedicated to examining the impact of radical change on national security and the construction of theoretical and imagined disruptions to existing structures, practices, and behaviours in the defence community of practice. The purpose of this series is to establish a first-class intellectual home for conceptually challenging and empirically authoritative studies that offer insight, clarity, and sustained focus.
Disinformation and Counternarratives in International Security: Cognitive Competition
1st Edition
Edited
By Gustavo Díaz Matey, Pablo Moral
November 18, 2025
This book examines the strategic role of weaponized narratives and foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) in international relations. It aims to understand how information is used as a tool for power projection and strategic competition, combining theoretical and empirical ...
Putin’s Strategic Culture, Climate Crisis, and Power Transition: From Permafrost to 'Permawar'
1st Edition
By Mette Skak
September 30, 2025
This book offers a new perspective on the security policy of Russia, linking the Ukraine war with its climate policy and Putin’s strategic culture. It offers an analysis of Russian strategic culture, Putin’s strategic culture and operational code, as well as “Putinism” being the mental underpinning...
Great Power Cyber Competition: Competing and Winning in the Information Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By David V. Gioe, Margaret W. Smith
August 29, 2025
This volume conceptualizes the threats, challenges, opportunities, and boundaries of great power cyber competition of the 21st century. This book focuses on a key dimension of contemporary great power competition that is often less understood due to its intangible character: the competition taking ...
Non-Military Warfare: A War of Our Time
1st Edition
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By Oscar Jonsson, Ilmari Käihkö
August 15, 2025
This volume analyzes the phenomenon of non-military warfare in theory and practice, including its relation to military warfare, and how states can understand and counter this activity. War has traditionally been understood as soldiers with weapons fighting on a battlefield. Today, however, it is ...
Defence Offsets and the Global Arms Trade: Explaining Cross-National Variations
1st Edition
By Jonata Anicetti
July 31, 2025
This book offers the first comprehensive study of defence offsets and its economic, security, political and theoretical implications. Originating in the second half of the 19th century, defence offsets - additional economic, industrial and technological benefits to states for buying foreign weapons...
Governance and Intervention in Mali: Elusive Security
1st Edition
By Susanna D. Wing
June 27, 2025
This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades. The work contextualizes external military engagement (including that of the United States, France, the United Nations and G5 Sahel) within the broader framework of weak ...
Human Factors in Effective Counter-Terrorism: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Richard Warnes
June 27, 2025
This book seeks to provide a comparative assessment of the significance of ‘human factors’ in effective counter-terrorism. The phrase ‘human factors’ is used to describe personal relationships, individual capabilities, effective leadership, technical interface, organisational culture and the ...
Operational Art: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Milan Vego
March 18, 2025
This book describes and explains the theory of operational art – an intermediate field of theory and practice between tactics and strategy. This book is one of relatively few works in the English language on the theory of operational art. It deals predominantly with the theory of operational art as...
European Total Defence: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
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By Gjermund Forfang Rongved
March 11, 2025
This book analyses the origins, experiences, and challenges of total defence in Europe and comprises a broad spectrum of national case studies as well as one international organisation – NATO. The topic of total defence has been brought to the fore by deglobalisation, augmented international ...
Understanding UK Defence Exports: The International Trade in Defence Capabilities
1st Edition
By John Louth
October 09, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive overview of UK defence exports, as an example of the international trade in defence capabilities. The work explores the subject of defence exports from the UK through various lenses, ranging from ethics, geopolitics, and national resilience to technology transfer, ...
Defence Planning for Small and Middle Powers: Rethinking Force Development in an Age of Disruption
1st Edition
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By Tim Sweijs, Saskia van Genugten, Frans Osinga
August 01, 2024
This book examines the processes, practices and principles of defence planning in small and middle powers. Small and middle powers are recalibrating their force postures in this age of disruption. They are adapting their defence planning and military innovation processes to protect the security of ...
Cultural Heritage in Modern Conflict: Past, Propaganda, Parade
1st Edition
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By Timothy Clack, Mark Dunkley
May 27, 2024
This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies. The book focuses on how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, and a driver of peace-building. It documents the changing ...