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.
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
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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 ...
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 ...
Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century: The Revival of Economic Statecraft
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By Mikael Wigell, Sören Scholvin, Mika Aaltola
January 14, 2020
Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice. States increasingly practice power politics by ...
Nuclear Disarmament: A Critical Assessment
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By Bård Steen, Olav Njølstad
March 08, 2019
This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward. Comprising essays by leading scholars on nuclear disarmament, the book highlights arguments in favour and against a world without nuclear weapons (global ...
North Korea, Iran and the Challenge to International Order: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Patrick McEachern, Jaclyn O’Brien McEachern
January 03, 2019
This book examines and compares the political situations in North Korea and Iran, and the contemporary security challenges posed by their illicit nuclear aspirations. While government officials, including a series of American presidents, strategic policy documents and outside analysts have ...
US National Security Reform: Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947
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By Heidi B. Demarest, Erica D. Borghard
June 27, 2018
This collection of essays considers the evolution of American institutions and processes for forming and implementing US national security policy, and offers diverse policy prescriptions for reform to confront an evolving and uncertain security environment. Twelve renowned scholars and ...
US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint
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By A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman
February 12, 2018
This book challenges the dominant strategic culture and makes the case for restraint in US grand strategy in the 21st century. Grand strategy, meaning a state’s theory about how it can achieve national security for itself, is elusive. That is particularly true in the United States, where the ...