Theory of warfare and military science

Despite recent attempts by scholars to examine the absolute prohibition of threats of force under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, threats remain a largely un-chartered area in international law when compared with actual uses of force.

This book examines Winston Churchill's role in the creation and development of the Anglo-American special relationship.

As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alternative through the Chinese dream of a harmonious world.

This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars.

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

This book examines how governments can weaken the regenerative capabilities of terrorist and insurgent groups.

This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam.

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

This book analyses how and to what extent ex-communist states have adjusted their defence strategies since joining the EU and NATO, and how differences and similarities between their strategies can be explained.

Security concerns have mushroomed.

Secrecy is a prevalent feature of politics within and among liberal democratic states, as well as in the relations between states and international organisations.

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

This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the 'Baltic question', which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previously received little attention.

In May 2013, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea (Asia 5) were given status as permanent observers in the Arctic Council.

This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises.

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the polarization of popular opinion over NATO defence policies during the latter years of the Cold War.

The book probes the lesser-known history of the Great Wars in the India-Myanmar borderland from the perspective of the indigenous people of the area.

An “impressively comprehensive” study of the Nazi military and its culpability in war crimes by “one of the foremost historians of World War II” (Stephen G.

This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent.

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

This volume re-examines the evidence surrounding the rise and fall of peacekeeping policy during the first Clinton Administration.

The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years.

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.

Scholars and policy makers have traditionally viewed portions of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific as separate and discrete political, economic, and military regions.

This pioneering book, now thoroughly updated to incorporate important research, explains the causes of war through a sustained combination of theoretical insights and detailed case studies.

The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to conditions across the Taiwan Strait.

A new look at how Britain's defence establishment learned to engage Japan's armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.

This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence.

Containing essays by leading Cold War scholars, such as Wilfried Loth, Geir Lundestad and Seppo Hentila, this volume offers a broad-ranging examination of the history of detente in the Cold War.

This book contributes to our understanding and appreciation of the contemporary relevance of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by analyzing and assessing the foundational norms, principles, and provisions contained within these bodies.

This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.

The book aims to provide the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory.

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

This book proposes a novel theoretical framework of "e;interactive arming"e; in order to explain armament dynamics in contemporary Asia.

This book contributes to our understanding and appreciation of the contemporary relevance of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by analyzing and assessing the foundational norms, principles, and provisions contained within these bodies.

This edited volume rethinks the relationship between power and law in the age of China's rise by examining recent developments in the South China Sea (SCS).

Learning War examines the U.

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 analyses how banks implement counter-terrorist financing measures and experiment with technologies to assess risks and make security decisions.

This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues.

The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records.

Over 2600 years ago the Parian poet Archilochus wrote "e;we chased seven and killed them.

The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges.

This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea.

A provocative new history of counterinsurgency with major implications for the history and theory of war, politics, and social science.

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 considers China's recent engagement in the Middle East, to what extent its approach has fundamentally changed, and how this role change has been received by regional and other actors.

This book examines the strategic and economic logic behind the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Regional Cooperation.

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).

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.