Routledge Global Security Studies
About the Book Series
Global Security Studies is a series for cutting-edge monographs and books on international security. It emphasizes cutting-edge scholarship on the forces reshaping global security and the dilemmas facing decision-makers the world over. The series stresses security issues relevant in many countries and regions, accessible to broad professional and academic audiences as well as to students, and enduring through explicit theoretical foundations.
Middle Eastern Emerging Middle Powers: Niche Diplomacy in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Mordechai Chaziza, Carmela Lutmar
April 23, 2026
This book examines how key Middle Eastern states use diplomacy in specialized ways to expand their influence in a changing global landscape. Focusing on the early twenty-first century, the book examines how eleven states - Egypt, Türkiye, UAE, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan ...
Ontological Security-Seeking: National Identities under Stress
1st Edition
By Regina Karp
January 30, 2026
This book addresses a central puzzle in ontological security theory, namely the relationship between identity continuity and change, and the role anxiety plays in fostering and inhibiting change. The work argues for a more nuanced perspective on how change and threats to national identity relate, ...
Sanctions for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Moving Forward
1st Edition
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By Armend Bekaj, Peter Wallensteen
January 30, 2026
This book examines the interplay between sanctions and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. The volume aims to tackle three separate but closely intertwined issues: It aims to revisit the debate on, and deconstruct the concept of, sanctions; to provide a working theoretical framework; to ...
The Foundations of Modern Arms Control: An International History, 1815-1968
1st Edition
By Robert M. Blum
October 27, 2025
This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring.The narrative begins after the Napoleonic wars when newly arisen peace movements focused on arbitration as a path to “ending the ...
Radiological Terrorism: A Global Threat
1st Edition
By Bahram Ghiassee
October 22, 2025
This book addresses radiological terrorism and the significant threats it poses to the public, the economy, and the environment across the globe. The work assesses the global radiological security issues associated with the illicit acquisition of radioactive substances by non-State actors, in ...
Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende?
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By Ulrich Kühn
September 29, 2025
This book is the first scholarly book to take a comprehensive look at Germany’s nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century. German foreign and security policy is facing a profound reorientation. Great power competition between the United States and both a revanchist Russia and a rising China, the...
Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics: A Mixed Methods Approach
1st Edition
By Steven E. Lobell, Patrick James, Scott A. Silverstone, Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley, Edward Gonzalez, Norrin M. Ripsman
July 31, 2025
This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation. These time-sensitive disputes between states, and even with violent non-state actors, do not involve significant risk of military escalation, at least in the moment. Investigating how and why some near crises escalate, while ...
Nuclear Alliance Restraint: Success and Failure in Countering Allied Proliferators
1st Edition
By Dong Sun Lee, Iordanka Alexandrova
February 05, 2025
This book examines why powerful states have varying success in restraining less-powerful allies from acquiring nuclear weapons, based on a broad range of historical case studies. The outcomes of nuclear alliance restraint primarily depend on two structural factors: the number of superpowers in the ...
Cultures of Counterproliferation: The Making of US and Israeli Policy on Iran's Nuclear Program
1st Edition
By Raphael BenLevi
January 30, 2025
This book argues that the nature of counterproliferation strengthens the effect of cultural factors in policy choices, and illustrates this by focusing on US and Israeli policy toward the Iranian nuclear program. The United States and Israel have been the two states most active in opposing Iran’s ...
The Global Third Nuclear Age: Clashing Visions for a New Era in International Politics
1st Edition
By Andrew Futter, Ludovica Castelli, Cameron Hunter, Olamide Samuel, Francesca Silvestri, Benjamin Zala
January 17, 2025
This book provides an in-depth examination of the technological, geopolitical and normative pressures driving the world into a new, more complex and potentially more dangerous Third Nuclear Age. By adopting an innovative framework for analysis, the book challenges the constrained focus of much of ...
Ballistic Missile Proliferation in Non-Nuclear States: The Origins of Ballistic Missile Programmes in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Karim El-Baz, Ali Ghanbarpour-Dizboni
August 14, 2024
This book offers an exploration of ballistic missile proliferation in the Middle East and also delves into the geopolitical landscape to unveil a narrative of contemporary Middle Eastern history. The central focus of this book is to decipher the pivotal moments when three regional powers of the ...
Expanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy
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By Tshepo Gwatiwa, Justin van der Merwe
January 29, 2024
This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa. This book posits that AFRICOM expansion in Africa is part of a broader system of accumulation based on a government-business-media (GBM) complex. Applying the concept at both ...