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This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.

This book examines how national security strategies relate to an emerging common European or global vision of security, and to human security ideas.

This book examines how national security strategies relate to an emerging common European or global vision of security, and to human security ideas.

This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles ('hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts.

This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles ('hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts.

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.

This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world.

This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world.

This comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of armed intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world.

This comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of armed intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world.

This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war.

This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war.

This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era.

This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era.

This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change.

This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change.

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace.

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace.

This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types.

This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types.

Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War.

Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War.

This Handbook breaks new ground by addressing global security through the lens of religion and examining the role religion plays in both war and peace.

This Handbook breaks new ground by addressing global security through the lens of religion and examining the role religion plays in both war and peace.

This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States' hegemonic position on the continent.

Rivalries are a fundamental aspect of all international interactions.

Rivalries are a fundamental aspect of all international interactions.

This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.

This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.

This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years.

This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years.

This book offers an overview of space strategy in the 21st century.

This book offers an overview of space strategy in the 21st century.

This book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions.

This book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions.

This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East.

This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East.

This book examines the moral dilemmas of nuclear dissemination, and the justifications of both nuclear pursuit and avoidance by contemporary states.

This book examines the moral dilemmas of nuclear dissemination, and the justifications of both nuclear pursuit and avoidance by contemporary states.

This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies.

This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies.

This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor.

This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor.

This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq.

This book examines the concept of new public diplomacy against empirical data derived from three country case studies, in order to offer a systematic assessment of policy and practice in the early 21st century.

This book examines the concept of new public diplomacy against empirical data derived from three country case studies, in order to offer a systematic assessment of policy and practice in the early 21st century.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

Analysing the relationship between civil society and the state, this book lays bare the assumptions informing peacebuilding practices and demonstrates through empirical research how such practices have led to new dynamics of conflict.