Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

In the past decade, heroes and villains spawned from the pages of comic books have upended popular culture and revolutionised the entertainment ind...

_The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture_ questions bordering as an organizing principle of culture, conflict, and pol...

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in t...

This edited book provides an insight into the new approaches, challenges and opportunities that characterise open source intelligence (OSINT) at th...

Written from a global perspective, The Institutions of Human Rights examines international human rights institutions and procedures, as well as wei...

How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed o...

By shifting American security policy away from maximizing military power for the United States and toward maximizing human security for all, policy...

Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to ...

The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards i...

Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to ...

In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical si...

This handbook explores those occasions when the police are faced with a public, national, or international crisis and are expected to continue to s...

There are no winners in war, only losers. We have so far avoided a third world war, but across the globe regional conflicts flare up in a seemingly...

How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed o...

What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the conseq...

Even though Sri Lanka's protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri L...

A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily TelegraphWhy has warfare always been part of the...

Settler Military Politics provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between settler colonialism and militarisation drawing from the Aus...

This volume examines the progress made by the Chinese military (the Peoples Liberation Army, PLA) as it strives to meet its commander-in-chiefs dir...

This book is about oil and gas dynamics in the worlds newest petro-powers-in-the-making, and the attempts to balance this against the impact of cli...

This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the Middle East. Arguing that a ...

Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.S. military's effor...