Armed conflict

Rwanda and Burundi are strikingly similar countries that underwent democratization in the early 1990s.

This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact on transnational security, human rights, and democratization.

Cowell-Meyers examines the continued sectarian conflict on the island of Ireland from a comparative and historical framework.

Focusing on Afghanistan's relations with the West during the latter half of the 20th century, this study offers new insights on the long-term origins of the nation's recent tragedies.

Afghanistan has been a theatre of civil and international conflict for much of the twentieth century – stability is essential if there is to be peace in the Greater Middle East.

Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear) weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11.

Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear) weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11.

Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent.

Beginning with the death of legendary IRA figure Sean South of Garryowen on New Year's Day 1957, the book describes the background to what we have now come to call 'the troubles' and paints vivid portraits of the major players whose actions sparked the violence that erupted on the streets of Belfast and Derry in the summer of 1969.

As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts.

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history.

The main objective of Beyond the Binary is to place on record the need to formulate answers to the question of the role that criminal action and punishment should play in negotiated political transitions from war to peace.

Women in conflict zones face a wide range of violence from a variety of sources: from physical and psychological trauma to political, economic and social disadvantage.

Este análisis de Dejusticia y del Human Rights Data Analysis Group agrupa la información compilada por distintas organizaciones sobre los homicidios de líderes sociales en el país y concluye, a través de un método estadístico, que la problemática tiene una magnitud mayor a la que se reporta.

Yemen has faced continuing crises since 2010.

A brilliant work of narrative nonfiction Booklist Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power Bernie Sanders A searing expos Kirkus Review Taibbi may be the only political writer in America that matters Hartford AdvocateThe incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement and the new fault lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people.

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to establish the postwar political order.

First published in 1993 and now available as an ebook.

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.

A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R.

An internationally-recognized authority on constitutional law, national security law, and counterterrorism, William C.

While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap.

The cross-border sharing of intelligence is fundamental to the establishment and preservation of security and stability.

In recent years, new disease threats such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis have garnered media attention and galvanized political response.

In this eloquent and impassioned book, defense expert Fred Ikle predicts a revolution in national security that few strategists have grasped; fewer still are mindful of its historic roots.

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the false assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal were terrible reminders that good information is essential to national security.

Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.

Rogue states pursue weapons of mass destruction, support terrorism, violate human rights, engage in acts of territorial aggression, and pose a threat to the international community.

Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained a seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mindset.

A popular myth emerged in the late 1990s: in 1900, wars killed one civilian for every eight soldiers, while contemporary wars were killing eight civilians for every one soldier.

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it.

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it.

Unlawful Combatants brings the study of irregular warfare back into the centre of war studies.

Follow the conflict of the World War 1 from 1914-1918 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs.

Police Unlimited is centred on the controversial idea that police forces are a focal point for conflict in modern society.

Police Unlimited is centred on the controversial idea that police forces are a focal point for conflict in modern society.

A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy's childhood.

Collins Shorts - insight in an instant.

Collins Shorts - insight in an instant.

'Boldly planned, bravely executed and brilliantly accomplished' was Margaret Thatcher's assessment of the Falklands campaign.

Colonel Gadaffi's Hat is both a gripping and deeply moving account of the Libyan uprising from the lone journalist who was able to report from the rebel army convoy that captured Green Square, in the heart of Tripoli.

The definitive inside account of the Falklands War, written by Margaret Thatcher herself.

From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier.

A reissue of this classic World War II novel.

A history of warfare distilled into 100 momentous battles - epic moments that have shaped our world.

'Afghanistan is just like Iraq - hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search AdvisorBomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth - Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Three musketeers.

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.

A high-octane account by a decorated major in the British Army of his high-level dealings with the Bosnian Serb leadership, of his running a 'Schindler's List' operation in Sarajevo, and of his extraordinary subsequent arrest by Ministry of Defence police on suspicion of betraying secrets to the Serbs.