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The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af/Pak region) is undergoing a fundamental strategic change.

Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs.

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements.

John Gerassi went to North Vietnam as a member of the first investigating team for the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

Defence Planning as Strategic Fact provides and elaborates on an "e;upstream"e; focus on the variegated organizational, political and conceptual practices of military, civilian administrative and political leaderships involved in defence planning, offering an important security and strategic studies supplement to the traditional "e;downstream"e; focus on the use of force.

This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'.

In the 1970s tactical nuclear warfare was a topical issue.

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.

Soviet Russia (1955) discusses the origins and growth of Russian industry, in particular the emergence of a large modern working class and administrative class since the war, how the factories and farms are run, the wage systems, and the plans.

This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy.

Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war.

This edited volume rethinks the relationship between power and law in the age of China's rise by examining recent developments in the South China Sea (SCS).

This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence.

Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs?

This book examines the importance of "e;military ethics"e; in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy.

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice.

This book focuses on the Indo-Pacific region's growing prominence as the world's major powers gravitate toward this space to expand their influence.

The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations.

Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare.

Pakistan is a vitally important country in the contemporary global political system.

The year 2007 saw the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age, which began with the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in October 1957.

This book explores the conceptual, historical, and ethical issues of information conflict to present a detailed analysis of cognitive warfare.

This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'.

Nuclear Deterrence (1968) examines the issue of nuclear-armed powers deterring attacks upon themselves with the threats of devastating retaliatory responses.

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 edited volume addresses one of the most significant issues in international strategic studies today: how to meet the challenge of a rising China?

This edited book addresses the appropriateness of US and other counter-terrorist (CT) strategies in Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and in Latin America, with a view to improving their effectiveness.

The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion.

Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe.

Proxy warfare is a growing international phenomenon.

This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of the Cold War, focusing on military transformation.

Written by leading historians and political scientists, this collection of essays offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the role of war in American history.

Shaping National Security: International Emergency Mechanisms and Disaster Risk Reduction presents international emergency mechanisms relative to disaster risk reduction (DRR).

This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations.

This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies ranging from the 1920s to the 'War on Terror'.

This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time.

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

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

A new look at how Britain's defence establishment learned to engage Japan's armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.

This work examines the evolution of the RAF's operational requirements for its home defence air force - for bombers to mount a deterrent counter offensive and for fighters to provide direct defence of Britain.

This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies.

This book focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the growing aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order.

The Social Impact of Oil (1982) examines how the town of Peterhead in the UK, hitherto a remote fishing port, was changed by North Sea oil.

This book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War.

This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence - warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone.

The need for freedoms of navigation in regional waters is frequently mentioned in statements from regional forums, but a common understanding of what constitutes a particular freedom of navigation or the relevant law is lacking.

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea.

Exploring case studies from the first Gulf War to the Syria crisis, this book discusses different approaches to the use of international law and the role it plays in international power politics.

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges.