Theory of warfare and military science

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

At the time of America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, the term "e;neoconservative"e; was enjoying wide currency.

This book offers a timely and concise academic and historical background to the concept and practice of neutrality, a relatively new phenomenon in foreign and security policy.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the questions of European security that lie at the heart of the confrontation between the superpowers.

This book examines the effect of economic power on a state's strategic autonomy.

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.

Gaining a decisive technological edge is a never-ending pursuit for defense establishments and the countries they protect.

Contemporary European Security explores the complex European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject.

This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon.

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

Demonstrates how some military presence on campus can contribute to the diversity of ideas and the education of all students.

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil's aerospace strategies.

Originally published in 1977, the purpose of this book was to analyse the relationship between the security of two states mutually undergoing strategic disarmament at the time and the need for safeguarding their security by means of a verification system.

This volume attempts to critically analyze Chaim Kaufman's ideas from various methodological perspectives, with the view of further understanding how stable states may arise after violent ethnic conflict and to generate important debate in the area.

The Adversaries (1981) examines the post-war world that both the US and the Soviet Union tried to mould in their own images.

This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War.

This book analyzes the concept of military necessity and just war thinking and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders.

This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU's efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions.

This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period.

The Soviet Union in World Politics, first published in 1980, looks at the change in direction of Soviet foreign policy away from world revolution in the 1970s.

This book, first published in 1989, analyses the effect that interdependence has had on the defence industrial base, concentrating upon those defence industries situated at the hi-tech end, and paying particular attention to the procurement decisions that affect the production of sophisticated military aircraft.

No matter if youre being followed or stalked or need to get away as soon as possible, being able to disappear without a trace is something that you will need to know.

Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy?

This book aims at gauging whether the nature of US foreign policy decision-making has changed after the Cold War as radically as a large body of literature seems to suggest, and develops a new framework to interpret presidential decision-making in foreign policy.

This book examines how violent non-state actors (VNSAs) emulate and develop military special operation capabilities.

This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962.

This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the post-Cold War perspective.

This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare.

This book provides an institutional costs framework for intelligence and security communities to examine the factors that can encourage or obstruct cooperation.

This book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia's geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as 'hybrid war' but 'political war.

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

From De Gaulle onwards, France's strategic independence has been predicated on self-sufficiency in modern weapons.

The Gulf War inflicted dramatic environmental damage upon the fragile desert and shore environments of Kuwait and north eastern Saudi Arabia.

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless.

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

The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria.

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This book examines the negotiations between the USA and the USSR on the limitation of strategic arms during the Cold War, from 1969 to 1979.

Gas pipelines constitute an important, yet unexplored, aspect of strategic geography.

This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War.

Provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law.

This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa's intelligence organizations and structures.

This new Handbook provides readers with the tools to understand the evolution of transatlantic security from the Cold War era to the early 21st century.

Die Welt steht am Beginn eines neuen Zeitalters der Kriegsführung.

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

The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century.

This book offers a new analytical framework for studying nuclear command and control (C2), based on a comparative study of four nuclear weapons states (NWS).

Secrecy and the Media is the first book to examine the development of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication of British national security secrets.

This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the 'non-military' aspects of British special operations in the Second World War.

This book provides a critical overview of the occurrence of war in the international system by examining the concept from multiple perspectives and theoretical backgrounds.