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.
Strategic Autonomy and Economic Power: The Economy as a Strategic Theater
1st Edition
By Vitor Bento
May 27, 2024
This book examines the effect of economic power on a state’s strategic autonomy. Strategic autonomy is a fundamental condition for the availability of strategic options in the interaction of states. This book provides the first clear operational definition of the concept and offers an analysis of ...
The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power
1st Edition
By Viktoriya Fedorchak
March 19, 2024
This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to assess the operational performance of both sides during the first year of the full-scale invasion. The Russian war in Ukraine began in 2014 and continued for eight years, before the...
Climate Change, Conflict and (In)Security: Hot War
1st Edition
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By Timothy Clack, Ziya Meral, Louise Selisny
December 01, 2023
This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how climate change is impacting conflicts, contention, and competition in the world. The volume examines how climate change is creating and exacerbating insecurities for millions of people globally, and how states, inter-governmental bodies, and ...
The Conduct of War in the 21st Century: Kinetic, Connected and Synthetic
1st Edition
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By Rob Johnson, Martijn Kitzen, Tim Sweijs
January 09, 2023
This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated. Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well ...
How Wars End: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Damien Kingsbury, Richard Iron
December 27, 2022
This book addresses one of the most important issues in international relations – how wars are ended. The volume draws on the direct experience of both soldiers and academics, who in each case have also been advisers on fighting and ending wars. Unlike more theoretical works, the book draws on ...
Making British Defence Policy: Continuity and Change
1st Edition
By Robert Self
June 17, 2022
This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation. Rather than dealing with the substance of defence policy, this study focuses upon the ...
The World Information War: Western Resilience, Campaigning, and Cognitive Effects
1st Edition
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By Timothy Clack, Robert Johnson
May 11, 2021
This book outlines the threats from information warfare faced by the West and analyses the ways it can defend itself. Existing on a spectrum from communication to indoctrination, information can be used to undermine trust, amplify emotional resonance, and reformulate identities. The West is ...