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.
Iran’s Nuclear Programme: Strategic Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Joachim Krause
October 03, 2013
This book examines the strategic implications of Iran’s nuclear programme, providing an inventory of the negotiations and a discussion of possible solutions to this pressing international security issue. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear programme has been the cause of one of the most extended...
Technology Transfers and Non-Proliferation: Between control and cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Oliver Meier
August 22, 2013
This edited volume examines the issue of the proliferation of dual-use technology and the efforts of the international community to control these technologies. Efforts to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) increasingly focus on preventing the proliferation and misuse of dual-use ...
Network Centric Warfare and Coalition Operations: The New Military Operating System
1st Edition
By Paul T. Mitchell
August 07, 2013
This book argues that Network Centric Warfare (NCW) influences how developed militaries operate in the same fashion that an operating system influences the development of computer software. It examines three inter-related issues: the overwhelming military power of the United States; the growing ...
Risk, Global Governance and Security: The Other War on Terror
1st Edition
By Yee-Kuang Heng, Ken McDonagh
August 06, 2013
This book applies risk society theory to the 'War on Terror', steering the discussion away from the militaristic discourse of the Bush era towards an emphasis on global cooperation and a new cosmopolitan agenda. The literature and rhetoric of the 'War on Terror' has been dominated by dramatic ...
Northern Security and Global Politics: Nordic-Baltic strategic influence in a post-unipolar world
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann-Sofie Dahl, Pauli Järvenpää
August 02, 2013
This book takes a comprehensive approach to security in the Nordic-Baltic region, studying how this region is affected by developments in the international system. The advent of the new millennium coincided with the return of the High North to the world stage. A number of factors have contributed ...
Political Economy and Grand Strategy: A Neoclassical Realist View
1st Edition
By Mark R. Brawley
April 12, 2013
This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy. The realist view of the balance of power theory includes implicit ...
Unipolarity and World Politics: A Theory and its Implications
1st Edition
By Birthe Hansen
July 23, 2012
This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order. Unipolarity is usually described either as a ‘brief moment’ or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world...
Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security: Regimes, Norms and Moral Progress in International Relations
1st Edition
By Denise Garcia
March 21, 2012
This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security. In doing so, the book looks at three cases of the development of international norms in this arena. First, it traces how new international normative understandings have shaped the evolution of ...
Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?
1st Edition
By Sverre Lodgaard
March 21, 2012
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This ...
Nuclear Energy and Global Governance: Ensuring Safety, Security and Non-proliferation
1st Edition
By Trevor Findlay
March 21, 2012
The book considers the implications of the nuclear energy revival for global governance in the areas of safety, security and non-proliferation. Increased global warming, the energy demands of China, India and other emerging economic powerhouses and the problems facing traditional and alternative ...
International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific: Patterns, Consequences and Management
1st Edition
By Jacob Bercovitch, Mikio Oishi
February 20, 2012
This book analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region (the Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and India-Pakistan), and aims to identify the mechanisms used to manage these conflicts. International Conflict in the...
Nuclear Proliferation and International Order: Challenges to the Non-Proliferation Treaty
1st Edition
Edited
By Olav Njølstad
December 15, 2011
This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century. Despite the fact that most countries in the world have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) there is growing concern that the NPT is in serious trouble and may not be able ...