Warfare & Defence

Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the even...

The EU’s self promotion as a ‘conflict manager’ is embedded in a discourse about its ‘shared values’ and their foundation in a connection between s...

This book investigates US foreign policy and tests the hypothesis that transition-inspired democracy promotion will successfully establish liberal ...

This innovative new textbook seeks to provide undergraduate students of international relations with valuable and relevant historical context, brid...

Climate change has been a key factor in the rise and fall of societies and states from prehistory to the recent fighting in the Sudanese state of D...

Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultu...

Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the pr...

The author argues that since the Second World War Canada has assumed that potential threats will come from overseas rather than from within its bo...

Comprising essays by Peter Wallensteen, this book presents an overview of the thematic development of peace research, which has become one of the m...

Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, the Battle of Little Bighorn may be the best recognized violent conflict between the indigenous peoples of N...

The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has t...

This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century. T...

This volume examines the military strategy and issues that Egyptian war planners faced during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Of major interest is the ...

Each year, this annual gives readers an in-depth and up-to-date account of India’s external and internal threats in a deteriorating global security...

What are the independent variables that determine success in war? Drawing on 40 years of studying and teaching war, political scientist Christian P...

The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious ...

This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.There is a lively debate in contempor...

This edited volume explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States’ heg...

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Inteligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one ...

This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities r...

While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ ...

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focu...

This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerg...

While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ ...