Warfare and defence

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of preconditions and processes of interorganizational cooperation among IGOs in peace operations and how these collaborative efforts account for the success and failure of such missions.

This book addresses the pertinent issues that will need to be considered by those interested in physical security problems of the future.

Following up on Donna Starr-Deelen's previous book Presidential Policies on Terrorism: From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama (Palgrave, 2014), this book compares and contrasts the approach of the Obama administration with the Trump administration regarding national security and counter-terrorism.

This book is about the future of nuclear weapons, geopolitics, and strategy.

This book explores the attitudes of the Spanish army officer corps towards the evolution of warfare during the early decades of the twentieth century, and their influence on the armies of the Spanish Civil War.

This book analyses the emergence of the Indian Ocean as security complex and a strategic space of central importance and also looks at its prospective future.

This book studies systemic vulnerabilities and their impact on states and individual survival.

This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in security cooperation in Africa.

In this book, the author deals with the mathematical modelling, nonlinear control and performance evaluation of a conceptual anti-aircraft gun based mobile air defence system engaging an attacking three-dimensional aerial target.

This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians' engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts.

This book explores the concept of 'resilience' in the context of militaries and militarization.

This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions.

This book identifies contemporary military coalition defections, builds a theoretical framework for understanding why coalition defection occurs and assesses its utility for both the scholarly and policy practitioner communities.

By challenging more common analyses that point to the existence of a "e;post-conflict scenario"e; in Colombia and those that resist the narrative of "e;success"e;, both of which operate within the logic of presence/absence of violence, this book proposes instead that we think of "e;post-conflict"e; in terms of the transformation of the rules on the use of violence.

This volume is a collection of contributions by world-leading experts in the nuclear field who participated in the educational activities of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO).

Albania's democratic transition - one of the longest and most arduous of post-communist Europe - has failed to produce consolidated institutions.

This book identifies and explains the functional and ideational boundaries regarding what states and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) both do and possess regarding land power, sea power, and air power.

This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution's first decade.

This book analyzes U.

This book sheds light on various ethical challenges military and humanitarian health care personnel (HCP) face while working in adverse conditions.

This fully updated third-edition of Contemporary Peacemaking is a state of the art overview of peacemaking in relation to contemporary civil wars.

This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac.

This volume examines Lebanon's post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations.

This book presents advanced technologies used in practice to enable early recognition and tracking of various threats to national security.

This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred.

This volume explores the interpersonal, organizational, and technological enablers and barriers to information and intelligence sharing in multinational and multiagency military, humanitarian, and counterterrorism operations.

This book focuses on current key issues of international security from an actor-centered approach.

The substantially revised third edition of The Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date.

This book breaks down the outcomes of stabilization operations including those related to establishing or enhancing safety and security, institutions of governance, rule of law, social well-being, economic development, access to education and health care, infrastructure development, reducing corruption and all the associated elements for shoring up fragile communities.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

This book explores the impact and efficiency of Western intervention in African civil wars.

This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal.

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

This book addresses the under-researched discourse of the evolution of Chinese nuclear posture, and in particular, explains the absence from this evolution of a coherent and well-defined operational doctrine.

This book analyses whether European leaders are able to deal with the 'hard power' problems of military provocation, mass migration, and terrorism.

This book explores the Falklands War from an Argentinian perspective, taking into consideration three aspects.

This book explores how human factors, in particular the contested notion of trust, influence the conduct and practice of arms control verification.

The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention.

As with 'appeasement', myths and legends have proliferated about the origins of the Cold War.

This edited volume reviews the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia against the backdrop of growing tensions over the South China Sea and increasing competition between the United States and China in the region.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women.

This book seeks to answer the "e;why"e; and "e;how"e; questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey's Kurds, in Turkey.

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation's largest audiences.

This book tells the story of the United States' relationship with the Taliban from the start of the Taliban movement until its retreat from Kabul in the face of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor.

Krieg, grundsätzlich verstanden als organisierte Gewaltanwendung zwischen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen oder Staaten, ist eine Erscheinung der Konfliktaustragung, die seit Jahrtausenden einen festen Bestandteil der menschlichen Geschichte bildet.

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This new work examines how the European states, the United Kingdom and the United States will approach the defence and Security of Europe in the medium and long-term.