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As the ‘War on Terror’ evolves into the ‘Long War’ against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United...

This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature...

To think about genocide and terrorism is to accept an invitation from hell. In fact, hell may be too benign a term since it makes a kind of sense o...

This book explores the idea of a ‘revolution in military affairs’ (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examin...

This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conf...

This volume shows us that in order to deal with today’s Fourth Generation asymmetric warfare by terrorist groups using conventional arms and weapon...

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from th...

The Politics of Cyberconflict focuses on the implications that the phenomenon of cyberconflict (conflict in computer mediated enivironments and the...

This volume re-examines the evidence surrounding the rise and fall of peacekeeping policy during the first Clinton Administration. Specifically, it...

The dissolution of Yugoslavia and the tragic wars that followed continue to engage scholars throughout the region and the world. Ever since the fal...

From the depths of the Cold War to the War on Terror, The Routledge Companion to Military Conflict since 1945 is an in-depth and comprehensive refe...

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region present...

This new study shows how the American-led ‘war on terror’ has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system ...

In Descent Into Chaos: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Threat to Global Security Ahmed Rashid explores the most volatile and dangerous region in the ...

In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he le...

This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conf...

An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows ...

The establishment of the Third Republic in France in the 1870s swept the nobility from power and established republican government supported by the...

This volume shows us that in order to deal with today’s Fourth Generation asymmetric warfare by terrorist groups using conventional arms and weapon...

This new volume explores the history of an important, but neglected sector of the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 in the context of its portray...

Based on wide-ranging, original research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political ...

Americans of the early Republic valued the art of eloquence, upholding the ideal that an impassioned, intelligent, and moral speaker will provide e...

This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond stat...

This new study shows how the American-led ‘war on terror’ has brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system ...

One of the most important results of the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had kept the common peo...

The war on terror has been raging for many years now, and subsequently there is a growing body of literature examining the development, motivation ...

Key events in Asia’s recent history have included the end of the Cold War, the Asian Economic Crisis and the ‘war on terror’. This is a critical as...

This is an investigation of the role of the modern soldier/diplomat and the nature of military negotiation, in comparison with negotiation in other...

In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atroci...

In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atroci...

In what ways is the meaning and practice of politics changing? Why might so many people feel dissatisfied and disaffected with electoral politics? ...

When America's corporate leaders need reliable information and expertise about dealing with threats to personnel both here and abroad, they turn to...

From the depths of the Cold War to the War on Terror, The Routledge Companion to Military Conflict since 1945 is an in-depth and comprehensive refe...

MI5’s dramatic interception of secret signals to Moscow from a hidden base in Wimbledon uncovered the true extent of Soviet espionage in Britain. I...