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.
International Nuclear Export Controls and Non-Proliferation: The Collective Action Problem
1st Edition
By Ian J. Stewart
May 31, 2023
This book examines the evolution of international nuclear non-proliferation trade controls over time. The book argues that the international nuclear export controls have developed in a sub-optimal way as a result of a non-proliferation collective action problem. This has resulted in competition ...
Nuclear Weapons Free Zones: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Exequiel Lacovsky
May 31, 2023
This book explores the conditions under which Nuclear Weapons Free Zones (NWFZs) can be established. It analyzes four hypotheses that explain the factors contributing to the formation of NWFZs, building upon realist, constructivist and liberal theories from international relations. Through ...
Renegotiating the Nuclear Order: A Sociological Approach
1st Edition
By Tarja Cronberg
May 31, 2023
Renegotiating the Nuclear Order offers a sociological approach to the nuclear order, and order defined by nuclear technology and nuclear weapons. The focus is on the need to renegotiate the nuclear order, given the conflict between deterrence and disarmament and the unbalanced ...
Russia and the World in the Putin Era: From Theory to Reality in Russian Global Strategy
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By Roger E. Kanet, Dina Moulioukova
May 31, 2023
This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin’s rule. When the Soviet Union disintegrated after the Cold War, Russia seemingly embarked on the establishment of a democratic political system and seemed intent on joining the liberal international order. However, under ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency: Historical Reflections, Current Challenges and Future Prospects
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By Joseph F. Pilat
May 31, 2023
This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade. Including contributions from leading experts across the globe, the book assesses the historical record of the IAEA; the issues ...
The Nuclear Terrorism Threat: An Organisational Approach
1st Edition
By Brecht Volders
January 09, 2023
This book examines the threat of a terrorist organisation constructing and detonating a nuclear bomb. It explores the role and impact of the organisational design of a terrorist organisation in implementing a nuclear terrorism plot. In order to do so, the work builds on the organisational analogy ...
The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: How it was Achieved and Why it Matters
1st Edition
By Alexander Kmentt
January 09, 2023
This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order. The work provides readers with an authoritative account of the complex evolution of the ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ (HI) and the ...
Confrontational and Cooperative Regional Orders: Managing Regional Security in World Politics
1st Edition
By Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi
March 31, 2021
This book explains cooperative and confrontational regional orders in the post-Cold War era.Applying a push-and-pull framework to the evolution of regional orders, the book’s theoretical section compares regional dynamics and studies the transformation and authority of governing arrangements among ...
Nuclear Asymmetry and Deterrence: Theory, Policy and History
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By Jan Ludvik
September 30, 2020
This book offers a broader theory of nuclear deterrence and examines the way nuclear and conventional deterrence interact with non-military factors in a series of historical case studies.The existing body of literature largely leans toward the analytical primacy of nuclear deterrence and it is ...
Nuclear Command and Control Norms: A Comparative Study
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By Salma Shaheen
June 30, 2020
This book offers a new analytical framework for studying nuclear command and control (C2), based on a comparative study of four nuclear weapons states (NWS).The subject of nuclear operations management has long been shrouded in secrecy, and whilst the importance of nuclear C2 cannot be disputed, ...
US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: The Realpolitik of Deceit
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By Bernd Kaussler, Glenn P. Hastedt
June 30, 2020
This book offers a realist critique of US foreign policy towards the Middle East in the past decade. It critically examines four core foundations of contemporary US Middle East policy: US relations with Saudi Arabia after the Arab Spring; US diplomacy towards Iran and the Obama administration’s ...
Military Coercion and US Foreign Policy: The Use of Force Short of War
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By Melanie W. Sisson, James A. Siebens, Barry M. Blechman
May 12, 2020
This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-Cold War era (1991–2018). The volume reveals that despite its status as sole superpower during the post-Cold War period, US efforts to coerce other states failed as often as they ...