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.
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
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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 ...
Stable Nuclear Zero: The Vision and its Implications for Disarmament Policy
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By Sverre Lodgaard
January 24, 2018
This volume examines the conditions necessary for a stable nuclear-weapons-free world and the implications for nuclear disarmament policy. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a road map to nuclear zero, but it is a rudimentary one and it says nothing about the kind of zero to aim for. ...
Nonproliferation Policy and Nuclear Posture: Causes and Consequences for the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
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By Neil Narang, Erik Gartzke, Matthew Kroenig
June 30, 2017
This volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies. The real-world importance of nuclear weapons has led to the production of a voluminous scholarly literature on the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation. Missing from this ...
Nuclear Terrorism: Countering the Threat
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By Brecht Volders, Tom Sauer
June 16, 2017
This volume aims to improve understanding of nuclear security and the prevention of nuclear terrorism. Nuclear terrorism is perceived as one of the most immediate and extreme threats to global security today. While the international community has made important progress in securing fissile ...
Global Nuclear Disarmament: Strategic, Political, and Regional Perspectives
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By Nik Hynek, Michal Smetana
May 25, 2017
This book examines the issue of nuclear disarmament in different strategic, political, and regional contexts. This volume seeks to provide a rich theoretical and practical insight to one of the major topics in the field of international security: global abolishment of nuclear weapons. Renewed calls...
Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century: The New Disorder
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By Stephen J. Cimbala
March 13, 2017
This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century. Nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age, on account of their capability for destruction, the fear that this created among ...
International Relations Theory and European Security: We Thought We Knew
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By Lorenzo Cladi, Andrea Locatelli
February 27, 2017
This book engages with key contemporary European security issues from a variety of different theoretical standpoints, in an attempt to uncover the drivers of foreign policy and defence integration in the EU. Although European foreign policy has been attracting an ever-increasing number of ...
International and Regional Security: The Causes of War and Peace
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By Benjamin Miller
November 04, 2016
This volume is a collection of the best essays of Professor Benjamin Miller on the subjects of international and regional security. The book analyses the interrelationships between international politics and regional and national security, with a special focus on the sources of international ...