Warfare & Defence

This book investigates, and explains, the extent to which different liberal democracies have resorted to the use of force since the 9/11 terrorist ...

Increasingly, ethnic and religious variables are taken into account to explain conflict and relations between nations. However, ethnic and religiou...

This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within mil...

This is the first detailed scholarly study of conscription in the years immediately following the Second World War, when for the first time in Brit...

On January 30, 1918, Lothar Witzke, the most dangerous German agent in the western hemisphere had reached his destination. His mission: to destroy ...

This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that deca...

In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Mil...

First published in 1992. The changing strategic environment of the 1990s has been characterised by events such as the Middle-East conflagration and...

Presenting the views of leading experts on strategic considerations in Eurasia, this volume shows that the 11 September attacks and subsequent deve...

The author argues that a part of the history of nation building in Iraq through addressing its political characters, different communities, agreeme...

In 1999, after 24-years of violent military occupation by Indonesian forces, the small country of Timor-Leste became host to one of the largest UN ...

This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict and violence and...

Harald Hoiback's study focuses upon two events - the 1918 Allied meeting at Doullens when the Allies ceded control to an officer, and the Norwegian...

This critical examination of the final Soviet strategic offensive operation during World War II seeks to chip away at two generally inaccurate pict...

This book engages in a constructive, practical debate on the nature and effects of uncertainty in global politics. International contributors explo...

This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian ‘enemy alien’ internment in Britain, the internment of British civil...

This book analyzes how the Iraqi city of Fallujah became registered as a setting for military heroics in American memory.In 2004, the U.S. military...

The American Civil War (1861-65) was the bloodiest war of the nineteenth century and its impact continues to be felt today. It, and its origins hav...

This book reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume ...

This book develops a novel approach to peace and conflict studies, through an original application of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida to the post...

Featuring 19 individual country profiles, this volume seeks to shed light on the key political and security factors, and geo-political trends in th...

Constructive Conflicts explains how large-scale conflicts—such as clashes between different ideological, religious, ethnic, and racial groups; civi...

Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since then, however, th...

This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.While existing theorie...

This book examines the Vogeler/Sanders espionage case that ruptured ties between the US and UK and Hungary in 1949, and analyses this as an example...

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry’s historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, soc...

This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citiz...

Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic. With the proliferation of service member programs and benefits, and the spotlight on them, ...

Focussing on one of the most fascinating episodes in military history, this book tells the story of the 1836 campaign in Texas, including the epic ...

Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively offers diverse perspectives on how large-scale conflicts can be conducted with more positive benefi...

This book analyses Japan’s security policy after the Cold War and engages with the question of whether, since the Cold War ended, Japan has again b...

The book focuses on the main security threats, defence industry, arms trade, defence policies and military capabilities related issues in the Asia-...

On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine...

This book makes an original contribution to our knowledge of the world’s major defence industries. Experts from a wide range of different countries...

A fascinating encyclopedic survey of the Spanish-Cuban/American War, the Philippine War, and the small wars between 1899 and the end of the occupat...

This book, first published in 1997, examines the forced merger between national security interests and environmental policy makers arising from the...

Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively offers diverse perspectives on how large-scale conflicts can be conducted with more positive benefi...

Uzbekistan more than any other country in the area is likely to play a critical role in shaping Central Asia's future. Situated at the heart of the...

This work explains how wars are most likely to escalate when the effects of warfare are limited. The author demonstrates that total wars during the...

The U.S. military economy incorporates hundreds of American communities. This is the first book to connect our national security apparatus to the l...

This book rethinks the body in global politics and the particular roles bodies play in our international system, foregrounding processes and practi...

The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take. This book sets out to explain wh...

This original and fresh book explores Okinawa’s makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacif...

This collection of papers rigorously examines the current place of deterrence in international security relations, delivering the best of contempor...

For students of Strategic Studies in small countries with limited financial, human and military resources, the available literature on Strategic St...

Previously published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics, this volume analyzes various dimensions of the internationalized state-building process i...

This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. Instead of weig...

The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures explores the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to dev...