Warfare and defence

This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads.

This edited volume provides scholars and practitioners with an in-depth examination of the role of civil-military cooperation in addressing hybrid threats.

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 edited volume starts with an account of the submarine in naval warfare and moves on to review the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia by considering their acquisition by the small and medium navies of the region.

This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences.

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that 'objects conform to our cognition' from the perspective of a Copernican world-view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant's because founded on the principle that our cognition conforms to objects.

The volume deals with the fundamentals of the contemporary relations between civic actors and state power structures.

This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations.

This book deals with the sudden demise of Islamists in Egypt and prospects for democratization.

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups.

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

This book covers various aspects of leadership in critical situations and under extreme conditions.

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 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 book offers a fresh perspective on the impact of the US intervention in Lebanon in 1982 and the decision-making drivers that led the Reagan Administration into the Lebanese Civil War.

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or "e;crisis"e; of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite.

This book provides a technical approach to a Business Resilience System with its Risk Atom and Processing Data Point based on fuzzy logic and cloud computation in real time.

This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations.

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

This book offers a systematic guide to the allocation of American taxpayer dollars used to provide for the common defense.

This book describes issues in modeling unconventional conflict and suggests a new way to do the modeling.

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

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

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 explores and problematises the war discourse regarding Egypt's victory in the 1973 War.

This book examines how the armed forces of the United States and Australia have responded to the threat posed by climate change to national security.

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs.

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

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 book comprises findings from the author's wide-ranging research since 1948 on the unresolved Arab/Israel protracted conflict.

This book offers an original and theoretically rich examination into the dynamics of alliances that great powers and weak states form to defeat threats, such as rebellion or insurgency, within the smaller state's borders.

This book provides readers a thorough understanding of the applicability of new-generation silicon-germanium (SiGe) electronic subsystems for electronic warfare and defensive countermeasures in military contexts.

This book analyses the role of the African Union and regional economic communities in contributing to peacebuilding in Africa.

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

"e;Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries.

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 investigates the modern privatisation of war.

This book accounts for transformations in the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)during fifteen years of operations (2001-2016), and argues that the EU evolved into a softer and more civilian security provider, rather than a military one.

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

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

This book explains why more Jewish people survived in some German-occupied countries compared to others during World War II.

Taking its departure in the concept of strategic culture, this book answers the question of why European countries decide either to participate or not in international military operations.

This book investigates the Israeli engagement with international law in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) between 1967 and 2009.

This is the first book to focus on the scope of social work practice within military settings from an international perspective, and therefore addresses what has been a significant gap in the literature.

This book begins with an account of the evolution of improvised explosive devices using a number of micro case studies to explore how and why actors have initiated IED campaigns; how new and old technologies and expertise have been exploited and how ethical barriers to IED development and deployment have been dealt with.

This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South.