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.
Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management
1st Edition
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By Daniel Moran, James A. Russell
January 26, 2010
This book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security, particularly where energy resources have become the object of military competition. The volume explores the risks that may arise from conditions of increasing economic competition and resource scarcity, and the problems that may ...
Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict: Debating Fourth-Generation Warfare
1st Edition
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By Aaron Karp, Terry Terriff
December 19, 2009
This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare since the birth of the international system? Containing essays by leading international security scholars ...
Globalization and WMD Proliferation: Terrorism, Transnational Networks and International Security
1st Edition
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By James A. Russell, James J. Wirtz
November 26, 2009
This edited volume explores the relationship between the accelerating process of globalization and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which is increasingly seen as the pre-eminent threat to international security. The proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction has traditionally ...
Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Responding to the Challenge
1st Edition
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By Ian Bellany
November 26, 2009
There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets. This edited volume critically assesses the suggestion that one safeguard against this possibility would be to strengthen ...
Nuclear Proliferation and International Security
1st Edition
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By Sverre Lodgaard, Bremer Maerli
June 29, 2009
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has long been key in non-proliferation and disarmament activities. The Treaty is the major international legal obstacle for states seeking nuclear weapon capabilities. In retrospect, and despite setbacks, the overall impact of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ...
American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11
1st Edition
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By A. Trevor Thrall, Jane K. Cramer
June 08, 2009
This edited volume addresses the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. The Bush administration's aggressive campaign to build public support for an invasion of Iraq reheated fears about the president's ability to manipulate the public, and many charged the ...
Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War
1st Edition
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By Robert Muggah
January 31, 2009
This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War, such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), and security-sector reform (SSR) Although the international aid and security sectors...