Warfare and defence

From pirates to smugglers, migrants to hackers, from stolen fish to smuggled drugs, the sea is becoming a place of increasing importance on the global agenda as criminals use it as a theatre to conduct their crimes unfettered.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates and issues in Canadian defence policy studies.

This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance.

In response to pirate attacks in the Western Indian Ocean, countries worldwide have increasingly authorized the deployment of armed guards from private military and security companies (PMSCs) on merchant ships.

This book assesses the Sino-Japanese strategic competition in the context of the South China Sea (SCS) territorial disputes.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2015.

This book conceptualizes Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) as part of a global cosmopolitan agenda, drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas, and argues that R2P is reflective of a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection.

This book sets out to explain the variation in nations' reactions to their defeats in war.

This book explores China's significant economic and security interests in the Middle East and South Asia.

In this thoroughly revised edition of his bestselling 1999 volume Why Peacekeeping Fails, Dennis Jett explains why peacekeepers today are dying in record numbers while engaged in operations that either are bound to fail or make little contribution to peace.

This textbook examines the economic problems of military organizations from an institutional perspective.

This book is about the strategic relevance of quantum technologies.

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

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

This book builds on the six years of hands-on experience that the author had while working in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

This book provides an understanding of Russia's geopolitical strategic interests as well as a larger picture of its political realities.

What are the causes of war?

NATO is facing a unique crisis questioning its existence and future.

Drawing from military geography's spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia.

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

This book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference on the post-Holocaust period, including 'displaced persons', reception and resettlement, exiles and refugees, trials and justice, reparation and restitution, and memory and testimony.

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 addresses a wide range of contemporary operational maritime law issues across the spectrum of operations.

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.

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.

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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.