Theory of warfare and military science

The nexus between terrorism and organised crime consists of a strategic alliance between two non-state actors who are able to exploit illegal markets, threaten the security of individuals, and influence policy-making on a global level.

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

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 United States military's use of concepts from non-linear science, such as chaos and complexity theory, in its efforts to theorise information-age warfare.

The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil-producing regions of the developing world.

As nuclear weapons become ever more sophisticated, so the deterrence debate becomes increasingly complex.

This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice.

Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop.

This edited volume examines the issue of the proliferation of dual-use technology and the efforts of the international community to control these technologies.

In this edited book, leading scholars and analysts trace the origins, evolution and the current state of Indo-US strategic cooperation.

Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves.

The New Communist Third World (1982) discuss the economic policies of the Soviet Union towards the countries of the developing world adopting a Marxist-Leninist form of government.

The battle is an old one: man versus nature.

Das Werk beschaftigt sich mit den historischen und politischen Hintergrunden der "e;Slovenian Armed Forces"e; und Ihrer Entwicklung zu einer Berufsarmee.

In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement.

Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow's economic policies - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia.

The emergence of India as a regional and potentially global power is forcing us to rethink our mental map of the Asia Pacific.

Four sections present a thorough overview of current issues in the politics of conflict in historical perspective.

Some of our most fundamental moral rules are violated by the practices of torture and war.

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This edited volume is the first detailed exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of detente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

This book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for the fi ve offi cial Nuclear Weapon States (NWS)- China, France, Russia, the UK and US- to eliminate their nuclear weapons.

This book examines the United States neoconservative movement, arguing that its support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was rooted in an intelligence theory shaped by the policy struggles of the Cold War.

The recent Afghanistan and Iraq wars were very controversial.

The Soviet Union and Cuba (1987) examines the thesis that Cuba acted as an extension of Soviet foreign policy or surrogate of the USSR in the Third World.

Terrorism cannot be treated as a monolithic threat.

Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective.

This book outlines the construction, interpretations and understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early twenty-first century.

An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and activists concerned about current attacks on abortion rights, this book offers an unmatched account of the emergence, consolidation, and consequences of the antiabortion movement's paternalistic abortion regret narrative.

Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft.

This book is about the challenges that emerge for organizations from an ever faster changing world.

This book explores the transformation of Europe''s military forces as they prepare for global intervention missions.

Geo-economic strategy - deploying economic instruments to secure foreign-policy aims and to project power - has long been a key element of statecraft.

This book provides a multinational history of German reunification based on empirical work by leading scholars.

Ten new essays critique the practice armed humanitarian intervention, and the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine that advocates its use under certain circumstances.

Governing Europe's Marine Environment is a coherent up-to-date multidisciplinary analysis of current approaches and challenges to the sustainable governance of Europe's marine environment.

A new investigation into how the advent of precision-guided munitions affects the likelihood of US policy makers to use force.

On today's complex, fragmented, fast-moving battlefield, where combatants adapt constantly to exploit one-another's weaknesses, there is a demonstrable requirement for military commanders to devolve a high level of autonomy of decision-making and action to leaders on the ground.

Ideological debate is one component of the intellectual background to Soviet policy-making.

This book examines Israel's civil-military relations (CMR) in order to explore alternatives to orthodox Western models of security sector reform (SSR) in post-conflict societies.

The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works.

Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists is a deliberately compact work aimed at both current and aspiring strategists, especially those who concern themselves with strategy at sea, and at those who work for or alongside them.

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s.

In managing national security, how Realist is India in terms of cultivating and using power and especially military power?

This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science.

India, one of the largest importers of oil in the world, has been diversifying its energy resource options and moving towards greater energy security.

This book, first published in 1990, is an incisive examination of NATO's strategy for the defence of the central front - the concern that has lain at the heart of NATO since its formation.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how climate change is impacting conflicts, contention, and competition in the world.

This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution.