Warfare and defence

In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam.

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of his ten-volume published writings.

A study of the effectiveness of summitry as a means of diplomacy.

Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.

General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack.

Calls to Arms: Presidential Speeches, Messages, and Declarations of War is a collection of presidential messages and speeches that called America to war from John Adams and the Quasi-War with France to George W.

On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russias clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germanys Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war.

Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIAs role in and final departure from that conflict.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin.

Finalist, Templer MedalIn the spring of 1944, on the eastern front of India near the Burmese border, the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Army suffered the worst defeat in its history at the hands of Lieutenant General William Slims British XIV Army, most of whose units were drawn from the little-esteemed Indian Army.

For the city's first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC's symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders.

By the end of the Civil War, fatalities from that conflict had far exceeded previous American experience, devastating families and communities alike.

The little-known history of black soldiers and defense workers in the First World War, and what happened afterward: "e;Highly recommended.

This book explores how military memoirs come to be written and published.

This book considers the increasing trend towards a 'culture of control' in democratic countries.

The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC.

This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide.

This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts.

International criminal law has developed extraordinarily quickly over the last decade, with the creation of ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court.

This is the first book to address in depth the interplay between radicalisation and political violence in Europe, as well as the effectiveness of counter-measures.

The World Turns to War weaves stories of combat veterans into an event-by-event history of the war.

Starting with the background of Japan’s rise to military prominence and the Asian country’s aggressive behavior against its neighbors, this graphic history covers all the significant events leading up to that fateful aerial attack on December 7, 1941.

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day.

This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago.

This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve.

Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response.

This book provides a rigorous critical analysis of how the US military operates in Iraq, exploring the spatial practices of violence.

This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'.

US Policy Towards Cuba is a comprehensive examination of U.

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

This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century.

Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in 21st century, together with Russia's relations with its former Soviet neighbours - but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia's increasingly fractious relations with those institutions.

This book argues that terrorism in the modern world has occurred in four "e;waves"e; of forty years each.

This edited volume sets out to explore the paradox that the European Union (EU) produces policies with strategic qualities, but lacks the institutions and concepts to engage in strategic reasoning and action proper.

This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, and shows how two enmities - Sino-Indian and Indo-Pakistani - and one friendship - Sino-Pakistani - defined the distribution of power and the patterns of relationships in a major centre of gravity of international conflict and international change.

The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat.

Conformity is a common coping strategy for dealing with stresses in political situations, as well a strategy for dealing with the lack of agreed foundations.

This book analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region (the Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and India-Pakistan), and aims to identify the mechanisms used to manage these conflicts.

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding interventions.

This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field.

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

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 edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and practice in dealing with the issue of "e;security"e; broadly conceived.

The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated.

Despite the increasing frequency of truth commissions, there has been little agreement as to their long-term impact on a state's political and social development.

This book recounts France's responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995.

This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence.

This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare since the birth of the international system?