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.
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 ...
US Strategy in Africa: AFRICOM, Terrorism and Security Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By David J Francis
December 15, 2011
This book outlines the construction, interpretations and understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early twenty-first century. No single issue or event in the recent decades in Africa has provoked so much controversy and unified hostility and opposition as the announcement by former ...
A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons and International Order
1st Edition
By William Walker
October 05, 2011
Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when ...
Why Did the United States Invade Iraq?
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane K. Cramer, A. Trevor Thrall
September 19, 2011
This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics. In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not as ...
Great Powers and Strategic Stability in the 21st Century: Competing Visions of World Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Graeme Herd
September 01, 2011
This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats. This edited volume examines the cooperative and conflictual capacity of Great ...
Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Protracted Conflict and Proliferation
1st Edition
By Saira Khan
March 14, 2011
This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation. Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the ...