Theory of warfare and military science

Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.

Contributions to this volume consider the importance of mediation in violent conflict.

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

This new volume explores terrorism and strategic terror, examining how the public responds to terrorist attacks, and what authorities can do in such situations.

This book examines the military characteristics and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the new global revolution in military affairs.

No modern intervention is intended to endure indefinitely; indeed some fashion of exit is always envisioned from the outset.

This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945-1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of The People's Republic of China in 1949.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

This book identifies and assesses the grand strategy of Chinese foreign policy following a flurry of diplomatic and investment activities in recent years.

This path-breaking collection of papers examines the phenomenon of jihadist insurgent movements in the Middle East and North, East and West Africa.

This book connects findings and insights authored by famous scholars in management and organization studies with challenges the military is facing today.

This book examines theories of morality and ethics in war through a comprehensive study of the Israel Defence Forces.

Sanctions are a persistent - many would argue increasingly central - component of American efforts to shape foreign policy outcomes in the Asia-Pacific.

Shortlisted for The Society for Army Historical Research's 2024 Templer Medal and Chapple Prize for best first book.

This book examines India's foreign and defence policy changes in response to China's growing economic and military power and increased footprint across the Indo-Pacific.

This book, first published in 1978, examines the military use of space - around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were military ones.

We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies.

This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it.

The proposed book draws on the on-going South China Sea dispute, and the multifaceted challenges wrought by the South China Sea issue that requires an inter-disciplinary perspective.

An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations.

Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain's strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War.

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs.

Written by the US Army's Urban Warfare Specialist, this book is the definitive look at how urban warfare tactics have evolved providing invaluable lessons for the US and British Armies of the future.

This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous, secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of national and international politics.

This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper.

Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the 1980s.

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon.

Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.

Archive-based historical analysis of UK military aerospace collaboration.

This book offers a new insight into when and why paramilitary groups in Afghanistan engage in protective or predatory behavior against the civilians they purportedly defend.

Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat.

On 22 January 2013, the Republic of the Philippines instituted arbitral proceedings against the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) with regard to disputes between the two countries in the South China Sea.

This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events.

As the Spanish were preparing to leave colonized Western Sahara in 1975, Morocco invaded, sparking a war with the Western Saharan Polisario Front.

This book examines the role of French-German cooperation within European military cooperation and European defence, and particularly the CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy).

First published in 1988, Arms Transfers and Dependence was written to provide a view of arms transfers in the context of the global distribution of power.

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point in international politics, representing a new type of threat that could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based structures of security alone.

This book, first published in 1985, is the first full-length study of the Soviet Armed Forces as a social institution.

This book investigates everyday practices of intelligence cooperation in anti-terrorism matters, with a specific focus on the relationship between Europe and Britain.

The 2007 Iran Nuclear Estimate Revisited: Anatomy of a Controversy explores both the contents and reaction to the U.

This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

This book provides an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War.

This book is a study of the circumstances leading to British intervention in Vietnam in 1945, and the course and consequences of this intervention.

This book examines military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past.

Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality.

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.

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.

South Asia is often viewed as a potential nuclear flashpoint and a probable source of nuclear terrorism.