Theory of warfare and military science

This book starts from the proposition that the field of intelligence lacks any systematic ethical review, and then develops a framework based on the notion of harm and the establishment of Just Intelligence Principles.

This book considers some of the most notable aspects of the legal response to the "e;war on terror"e; post- 9/11 and the use of technology to support them.

This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.

There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency.

This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding interventions.

Hannig Nunez analyzes the processes behind technology transfers at a state-decision-making level in Latin America.

The author, an eminent policy analyst, applies strategic balance of power models to African security issues for the first time, and formulates the "e;Praetorian Index"e; to gauge levels of military corruption, and the risk of social unrest and civil war.

Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain.

This book, first published in 1986, is a major study of semialignment and a review of the individual nations within NATO to which the model could be applied.

This book, first published in 1987, examines the defence forces of Western Europe and assesses Europe's capacity to defend itself as the 1980s saw the Cold War balance of power shift towards the Soviet Union.

Since the creation of the standing army in 1661, when each regiment was known by the name of its current colonel, there have been many reforms and rationalizations of the British army.

This book seeks to identify and address gaps in our understanding of maritime security and the role of small navies in Europe.

This book sets out the major social scientific approaches to the study of Special Operations Forces.

Sovereignty and jurisdiction are legal doctrines of a complex nature, which have been subject to differing interpretations by scholars in legal literature.

Prior to the progressive development of the law of armed conflict heralded by the 1949 Geneva Conventions most particularly in relation to the concepts of international and non-international armed conflict-the customary doctrine on recognition of belligerency functioned for almost 200 years as the definitive legal scheme for differentiating internal conflict from "e;civil wars"e;, in which the law of war as applicable between states applied de jure.

This book offers an analysis of key individuals who have contributed to both the theory and the practice of counterinsurgency (COIN).

This Whitehall Paper provides an in-depth analysis of Russia's Ground Forces, including airborne and naval troops.

This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century.

This book aims to explain air power to both military and civilian audiences in an accessible manner, approaching the topic in a balanced and systematic way.

A practical guide for policy makers, military officers, students, and anyone else interested in asymmetric conflicts.

This book explores the military strategies of the five system-determining great powers during the twenty-first century.

There has been a recent increase in clashes between warships asserting rights to navigate and states asserting sovereignty over coastal waters.

This updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant history.

This book offers an interdisciplinary insight into the key debates around information warfare in the digital age and argues that transnational cooperation can mitigate the threat.

This book historically maps and examines the evolving, contemporary geostrategic and geopolitical imperatives of the United States within Pakistan and the South Asian region, especially after September 11, 2001.

This book examines Russia's new assertiveness and the role of energy as a key factor in shaping the country's behavior in international relations, and in building political and economic power domestically, since the 1990s.

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the choices made by NATO's northern allies during the 1970s and 80s, as well as the factors that produced these choices.

This book studies how domestic contestation influences the security policy of small states within the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

This book focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the years 1975-85, highlighting the transformation from bipolar US-Soviet competition to global confrontation.

This Whitehall Paper explores the ways in which Mogadishu's inhabitants try to stay out of harm's way, from security officials in the presidential compound of Villa Somalia to the city's powerful district commissioners, from patrolling policemen to the women road-sweepers in the rubbish-filled alleyways of the Waberi district.

This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of 'cold war' - that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear rivals.

Analysing US foreign policy towards Angola during the Ford administration, this book provides an intriguing insight into one of the most avoidable and unfortunate episodes in Cold War history and explores the impact on Henry Kissinger's much vaunted reputation for being guided by realist principles.

This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma.

This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies-strategic culture-illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region's difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations of many other actors.

This book explains how the US military reacted to the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), and failed to innovate its organization or doctrine to match the technological breakthroughs it brought about.

A fully revised and updated new edition of the leading introduction to the theory and conduct of warfare.

This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day.

This volume attempts to critically analyze Chaim Kaufman's ideas from various methodological perspectives, with the view of further understanding how stable states may arise after violent ethnic conflict and to generate important debate in the area.

This interdisciplinary Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the complex security phenomenon of disinformation and offers a toolkit to counter such tactics.

Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia (1998) examines the various attempts to create new forms of integration by the new states of Eurasia.

Intelligence was a major part of the Cold War, waged by both sides with an almost warlike intensity.

This book provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students.

China and the Soviet Union, first published in 1950, is written by a Chinese former diplomat and university professor, and calls on his many years of experience to provide an even-handed analysis of Sino-Russian relations.

This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations.

Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft.

This innovative Routledge Handbook sheds light on the complex and transformative nature of Global China, prompting a re- evaluation of existing theories on global and regional dynamics.

Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them?