Theory of warfare and military science

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

This book presents the current history of United States military strategy in Afghanistan as an example of dysfunctional policy discourse among the nation's elites.

This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).

This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror.

This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing.

This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War.

There could be no better homage to recently deceased sociologist Charles C.

This book describes the evolution of French defence policy since the end of the Cold War.

Transatlantic Relations Since 1945 offers a comprehensive account of transatlantic relations in the second half of the 20th century (extending to the present-day).

Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War, the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint.

This book examines security cooperation between Western states.

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.

This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.

The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings up to the end of the 1980s.

Internal security is often hailed as a rapidly expanding area of European integration, with a growing number of strategies, policies and framework agreements in recent years.

In war, do mass and materiel matter most?

Over recent decades, it has been widely recognised that terrorist attacks at sea could result in major casualties and cause significant disruptions to the free flow of international shipping.

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

This collection of essays considers the evolution of American institutions and processes for forming and implementing US national security policy, and offers diverse policy prescriptions for reform to confront an evolving and uncertain security environment.

Health Security Intelligence introduces readers to the world of health security, to threats like COVID-19, and to the many other incarnations of global health security threats and their implications for intelligence and national security.

This book, first published in 1988, analyses the interests and activities of the Soviet Union in the northern Atlantic.

Dieser Sammelband dokumentiert die Beiträge, die auf der Jahrestagung 2017 des Arbeitskreises Militär und Sozialwissenschaften (AMS) vorgestellt und im Anschluss an diese Jahrestagung für diesen Sammelbandes überarbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert wurden.

In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously considered the ethics of modern warfare, examining the moral issues that arise before, during, and after conflict.

In 2004 the Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - finalized their return to the West by joining NATO and the EU after definitively throwing off their 'captive nations' status by regaining independence in 1991.

Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.

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

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.

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.

This book offers a detailed investigation of naval diplomacy, past and present, and challenges the widely accepted Anglo-American school of sea power thought.

The relationship between intelligence organizations and the national security policymakers which they support has its ups and downs.

While espionage between states is a practice dating back centuries, the emergence of the internet revolutionised the types and scale of intelligence activities, creating drastic new challenges for the traditional legal frameworks governing them.

Addressing the problems surrounding cyber security and cyberspace, this book bridges the gap between the technical and political worlds to increase our understanding of this major security concern in our IT-dependent society, and the risks it presents.

Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have constituted a perennial feature of the security landscape.

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

This book examines Syrian displacement since the start of the 2011 conflict.

Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles - one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention.

This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.

This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence.

This book, first published in 1982, analyses the prospects of the Cold War superpowers arms race spilling into outer space.

This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption.

This book seeks to chart and evaluate the impact of social research on the military itself.

Will national independence bring to the peoples of South East Asia liberty and democracy?

Reflecting the profound changes in international society in the past decade and the challenges that all Powers' diplomacy and statecraft face, whether opposing or encouraging these changes, this fully revised and updated edition provides a unique multifaceted assessment by experts of the new international order.

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Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of 'threat', to a post-Cold War rationality of 'risk'.

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe.

The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations for national security operations.