Theory of warfare and military science

Saudi Arabia (1986) is a major study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia following its establishment as a leading world exporter of oil.

First published in 1988, this historical and quantitative analysis of war defines systemic world wars as conflicts of wide scope and intensity, which leave profound historical legacies in their wake.

This book, first published in 1986, analyses a number of emerging, enduring and neglected issues that affected European security and the stability of the Atlantic Alliance at the end of the Cold War.

This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare.

This book, first published in 1973, analyses the European Community in a global perspective.

The Russia Scare assesses the scope, character and extent of Russian interference in the affairs of liberal democratic states.

This book examines the dynamics of intelligence practices in the Scandinavian culture of high social cohesion and high trust.

Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts.

Will tensions and disputes among states sharing international water courses and lakes turn into active conflicts?

How do America's democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China?

This accessible textbook uses key documents embedded in a clear narrative to chart the post-Cold War rise and decline of transatlantic relations.

This book, first published in 1969, casts a critical eye over the problem of insurgency.

This volume documents the drafting, negotiation and signature of the treaty that has been the cornerstone of European defence for the past sixty-five years: the North Atlantic Treaty signed in April 1949.

This book questions the conventional wisdom about one of the most controversial episodes in the Cold War, and tells the story of the CIA's backing of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

This is the first book to apply the Clausewitzian Trinity of 'passion, chance, and reason' to the experience of real war.

Originally published in 1985, this book explores the nuclear confrontation between East and West in Europe: where we stand, how we got there and what the future may hold.

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, first published in 1985, examines the whole problem of peacemaking in the Arab-Israel conflict.

This interdisciplinary Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the complex security phenomenon of disinformation and offers a toolkit to counter such tactics.

The defence of the Gulf has been a vital strategic concern for close on 100 years.

This unique book captures state of the art thinking and methodologies designed to advance intelligence education to produce a capable and qualified intelligence workforce.

Soviet Foreign Policy Today (1991) is the culmination of almost 30 years of observations of Soviet foreign and domestic politics, written at the time of Gorbachev's great changes.

Iran is the only Middle Eastern state to have preserved its national identity through the upheavals of Arab, Turkish and Mongol invasions.

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

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea.

Taiwan's position looks increasingly precarious, and tensions threaten to grow into a major strategic crisis.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear.

For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they do fight.

This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state's response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947.

This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of British military experiences in the post-war era and endeavours to unpack their performance.

This book offers a strategic analysis of one of the most outstanding military careers in history, identifying the most pertinent strategic lessons from the campaigns of Alexander the Great.

There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets.

Twentieth Century Guerrilla Movements in Latin America: A Primary Source History collects political writings on human rights, social injustice, class struggle, anti-imperialism, national liberation, and many other topics penned by urban and rural guerrilla movements.

Since the end of the Cold War China and Japan have faced each other as powers of relatively equal strength for the first time in their long history.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

Examining Russian military intelligence in the war with Japan of 1904-05, this book, based on newly-accessible documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic archives, gives an overview of the origins, structure and performance of Russian military intelligence in the Far East at the turn of the twentieth century, investigating developments in strategic and tactical military espionage, as well as combat renaissance.

Isaiah Berlin's liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes.

Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and terrorism to urban and rural planning, international aid provision and the prevention of and responses to natural and man-made disasters.

Originally published in 1987, The Logic of Nuclear Terror presented a much-needed critical review of the premises, concepts, and policy prescriptions of deterrence theories and doctrines at the time.

This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire.

This book explores China's approach to the nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea.

Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare.

This book, first published in 1984, examines France's independent nuclear weapons programme of the 1980s alongside the French peace movement, which was almost totally absent - in contrast to the peace protests of the US and the rest of Europe.

This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.

Chinese Martial Code provides clear, easy-to-follow translations of three of the most respected Chinese works of military strategyIt features a masterful translation of The Art of War of Sun Tzuthe most respected of all works of military strategyas well as the less famous but equally wise The Precepts of War by Sima Rangju and Wu Zi On the Art of War.

This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia.

The United Nations in the 21st Century, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the UN.

Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania.

This book analyses China's multidimensional rise in the context of the international political economy, drawing on Susan Strange's concept of "e;structural power.

The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow.