Theory of warfare and military science

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

For almost fifteen years, both the EU and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have claimed to partake in a relationship that is purported to be a 'Strategic Partnership', albeit one that is troubled by lasting political blockages.

War by Agreement presents a new theory on the ethics of war.

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

Technology has always played a central role in international politics; it shapes the ways states fight during wartime and compete during peacetime.

This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector.

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).

This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership.

Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection.

The only textbook to provide a wide-ranging analysis of war and organised violence from a sociological perspective.

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

This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy.

This book, first published in 1991, examines Britain's defence and foreign policy of the 1980s , and explores a variety of alternative roles for Britain in the radically changed circumstances of the 1990s.

While there is abundant literature discussing non-traditional security issues, there is little mention of such issues existing in the South China Sea.

This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so long, while introducing a new strategic doctrine for countering these organisations.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has long been key in non-proliferation and disarmament activities.

This book is dualistic in its nature: it seeks to combine two approaches to the analysis and assessment of societal development prospects and to strengthen the capacity of each.

This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present.

Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as among the most common causes of war.

This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944-1950.

This book, first published in 1990, examines the relationship between the Soviet Union and the Western Alliance at a time of great changes.

This edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era.

This book, first published in 1977, presents a comprehensive survey of the upheavals experienced in warfare from 1793 to the end of the twentieth century, a period that saw many fundamental changes - from the Napoleonic wars to the advent of total war, guerrilla and nuclear warfare.

This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era.

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 edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D.

US Policy Towards Cuba is a comprehensive examination of U.

This book, first published in 1989, is a comprehensive examination of the profound impact of World War II on Soviet military affairs.

This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China's efforts to acquire foreign technology.

This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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

Academic studies of 'terrorism' grew exponentially in number after the September 11 attacks.

The states of West Asia continue to grapple with dramatic changes taking place in the domestic and regional environment.

This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilities, as well as the military and political consequences of their combat operations.

The book offers a novel conceptualization of Israeli national intelligence culture, describing the way in which Israelis perceive and practice intelligence.

This book addresses the inadequacies of just war theory and international law regarding civilian rights, developing new principles of individual restorative justice.

This book examines the shape, sources and dangers of information warfare (IW) as it pertains to military, diplomatic and civilian stakeholders.

Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach, 2nd Edition, covers everything crime analysts and tactical analysts need to know to be successful.

This book deals with two significant issues: the peculiar and paradoxical question of why regular armies, better suited to fighting conventional high-intensity wars, adopt inappropriate measures when fighting guerilla wars; and the evolution of the Indian army's counterinsurgency doctrine over the last decade.

This book argues power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why warring Afghan groups aligned with and double-crossed each other.

This book, first published in 1990, examines the theories on 'nonoffensive' or 'nonprovocative' defence that arose at the end of the Cold War.

The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union (1986) examines the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1980, when victims of Stalin's terror were released from camps or posthumously rehabilitated.

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, 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.

On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, President G.

The nature of UN operational involvement in the practical management of conflict has evolved dramatically since the end of the Cold War.

First published in 1977, British Defence Policy in a Changing World provides an analysis of the changes which have taken place in Britain's security policies since the Second World War.

This book offers a new edition of Henry Maydman's work Naval Speculations with a detailed commentary by two leading experts on its importance to the naval issues of the 21st century.

Considers war initiation, wartime politics, war policies and war termination through the complex roles played by citizen wartime casualties.