Warfare and defence

An illustrated account of the first jet-powered combat aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and its short but action-packed career during World War 2.

The first book to examine the Japanese and American tank forces in the Philippines campaigns, which saw the biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War.

This book offers an interdisciplinary insight into the key debates around information warfare in the digital age and argues that transnational cooperation can mitigate the threat.

This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the contested meaning, scope of application, value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

This book explores how information and communications technologies are adapted, governed, and reinterpreted in areas where the state has limited reach.

The 'Stan is a collection of short comics about America's longest war.

As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers.

In modern industrial societies, the demand for policing services frequently exceeds the current and foreseeable availability of public policing resources.

The Routledge History of the First World War is a work which, in a single volume, covers a range of major themes and issues relating to that conflict.

This book examines the nature, causes, and consequences of grand corruption, showing how it can be assessed, measured, and attacked from within and without.

The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014, Second Edition is a highly detailed and exhaustive history and analysis of terror groups that both formed the Iraq insurgency and led to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.

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A host of natural and man-made disasters have plagued the world in the twenty-first century, many with significant global impact.

The IISS Strategic Dossier Turbulence in the Eastern Mediterranean: Geopolitical, Security and Energy Dynamics surveys the geopolitical landscape, defence dynamics and energy prospects of the region that spans Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Turkiye.

Cities and Disasters presents interdisciplinary and multinational perspectives on emergency management policy, economic development, and the various factors that affect the recovery process after natural disasters strike urban areas.

After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'.

Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, these thirty-one linked short stories trace the interconnected lives of villagers tending to their everyday tasks, engaging in quotidian squabbles, and celebrating small joys against a breathtaking landscape.

An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944 45.

Bürokratie gilt als unverzichtbar für die Organisation moderner Staaten – doch ihre Komplexität und Starrheit behindern oft Fortschritt und Bürgernähe.

Professionalizing the Police is a timely reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda.

Das einundzwanzigste Jahrhundert ist Zeuge einer Militarisierung der Ästhetik, bei der Militäreinrichtungen die kreative Weltgestaltung der Kunst vereinnahmen und sie mit den zerstörerischen Kräften der Kriegsführung verschmelzen.

Once again nature's fury has taken a toll in pain, suffering, and lives lost.

This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context.

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region's sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters.

Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the United States (US) and its allies after World War II, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia.

The Indian National Army (INA) trials of 1945-46 have generally been given short shrift by historians in their cataloguing of the Indian freedom movement.

After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'.

Informed by senior policymakers with extensive expertise in defense policy, this book provides a comprehensive regional and functional perspective on US policy toward the People's Republic of China.

Putting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities - especially ethnic and racial minorities - are treated by the majority, Larry May's Ethnic Cleansing maintains that unjust ethnic cleansing is one of the greatest internal challenges to the modern institutions of pluralistic and multicultural states.

Following the passage of the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of the entry of many former communist states into both NATO and the EU in 2019, this book takes a comprehensive look at the changed security conditions of these new member states.

For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy.

For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy.

First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.

Breaking Al-Qaeda: Psychological and Operational Techniques, Second Edition explores the background and history of al-Qaeda, covers recent developments, and explains how, why, and where the al-Qaeda network is expanding.

War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 4 continues the coverage of the operational history of the Angolan Air Force and Air Defense Force (FAPA/DAA) as told by Angolan and Cuban sources, in the period 1985-1988.

War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 4 continues the coverage of the operational history of the Angolan Air Force and Air Defense Force (FAPA/DAA) as told by Angolan and Cuban sources, in the period 1985-1988.

After decades of uncontested dominance, the era of American hegemony is ending and a new multipolar world order is emerging in its place.

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This book considers whether the United States and the People's Republic of China have irreconcilable visions of world order.

A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War.

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war?

Every year, esteemed scholars and practitioners meet at the International Police Executive Symposium to discuss contemporary issues in policing and share ideas about effective strategies in their jurisdictions.

An introduction to Pakistan's ISI, which has been both an essential ally and problematic partner of the United StatesForged during the tumultuous aftermath of Partition in 1947, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) has grown to become the preeminent intelligence service in Pakistan.

Many facets of disasters generate interest among scholars and practitioners.

This innovative Routledge Handbook sheds light on the complex and transformative nature of Global China, prompting a re- evaluation of existing theories on global and regional dynamics.