Warfare and defence

This book addresses ways that governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders can utilize data to uncover illicit trade in materials and equipment that could be used to support chemical, biological, nuclear, and advanced conventional weapons systems.

This book explores the EU's approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder.

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.

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

This book examines how historical military influences can become embedded and used by the state to control citizens' behaviour, termed the militarisation of behaviours.

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

This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction.

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 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.

Looking at a variety of armament sectors, the book examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts the fields of armament and arms control, how existing arms control measures will be affected by AI, and what new approaches based on AI have been or are currently developed.

This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it.

This volume takes readers beneath the surface of the South China Sea by exploring critical but under-researched issues related to the maritime territorial disputes.

This book explores types of disruptions in defence and security, ways to assess disruptions triggered by technological advancements or the lack of legal frameworks; the consequent delays or disruptions to making decisions, creative idea generation and finally the innovative pathways to counter such disruptions.

This edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, philologists, medievalists and early modernists, cryptologists, and education reformers.

This book examines the recent changes in strategic stability, caused by the collapse of the international security architecture.

This book examines the development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy from the first proposal in 1946 to the start-up of the last core improvement for the first submarine reactor power plant PWR 1 in December 1974.

Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign in North Africa and Sicily in World War II.

The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare.

Impending technological advances will widen an adversary's attack plane over the next decade.

This book examines the geostrategic alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean and MENA regions.

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 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.

The intense debate over US targeted drone strikes outside war zones has been limited by the failure to review and assess a considerable body of quantitative research and qualitative material on the impacts of such strikes on terrorist groups and civilians.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of Ukraine's nuclear history, beginning from its experiences within the Russian Empire in the early 20th century, through the Soviet period, to the emergence of Ukraine as an independent state that inherited the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal.

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

This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II.

This book is a collection of essays that explore commonalities and contrasts between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health.

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 explores the factors that account for military neutrality as a security strategy for small states.

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

This book focuses on the connection between Brazil and Antarctica, two regions that can be seen as distant and contrasting, but are physically, culturally and politically associated.