Warfare & Defence

This volume of Political and Military Sociology focuses on the perceptions and identities of those serving in the military, using survey or intervi...

The War on Terror has remained an enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades. This short history positions the War on Terror ...

"Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it." –Lynn VincentThe New York Times bestse...

The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was ...

Impartiality is a guiding principle in United Nations peace operations that has helped legitimize multilateral intervention in dozens of armed conf...

Despite flourishing economic interactions and deepening interdependence, the current political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and China ...

This book explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC st...

Invitation to Peace Studies is the first textbook in the field to emphasize 21st-century research and controversies and to encourage the more frequ...

This book examines cyberspace superiority in nation-state conflict from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This volume analyses superi...

This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagas...

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative textbook, addressing a number of key issues in terrorism studies from both traditional and 'crit...

This book offers an analysis of the major sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggests principles and processes for building a peacemak...

Featuring more than twenty-five case studies of leaders throughout history, A Casebook of Transformational and Transactional Leadership supplements...

There have been many studies of the generals who commanded the Union's victorious Army of the Potomac, but none has considered the corps, division,...

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of warfare ethics in early China as well as its subsequent development. Chinese attitudes toward ...

This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes...

This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in Shakespeare’s Othello, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, and C...

This book is a comparative study which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations? Since 2003,...

This book examines whether partition is an effective means to resolve ethnic and sectarian civil wars. It argues that partition is unlikely to end ...

The fifteen new essays collected in this volume address questions concerning the ethics of self-defense, most centrally when and to what extent the...

This book examines how governments can weaken the regenerative capabilities of terrorist and insurgent groups.The exploration of this question take...

This book illustrates how Africa’s defence and security domains have been radically altered by drastic changes in world politics and local ramifica...

China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this, previous coverage portrays eve...

How do America’s democratic allies perceive and respond to a relative decline in US power and influence and the simultaneous rise of China? Using t...

Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of important security issues -- from combatting pi...

Most of what has been written about the recent history of Yugoslavia and the fierce wars that have plagued that country has been produced by journa...

Gaining a decisive technological edge is a never-ending pursuit for defense establishments and the countries they protect. Intensifying geo-strateg...

This book explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom.The last decade has witnessed astoni...

In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting wit...

One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what...

This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal globa...

The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to th...

A study of the little-known career of Germany's Panther, perhaps the greatest tank of World War II, in foreign hands both during and after the war....

This edited volume focuses on the use of ‘necessary condition counterfactuals’ in explaining two key events in twentieth century history, the origi...

Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nati...

Two centuries after Carl von Clausewitz wrote On War, it lines the shelves of military colleges around the world and even showed up in an Al Qaeda ...

This military history and biography charts the career of the Duke of Marlborough and his development into being one of Britain's most successful mi...

As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incre...

Global Responses to Maritime Violence is a full discussion of maritime security short of war that goes beyond the current literature in both scope ...

The New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable...

Europe’s borders have always been historically ambiguous and dynamic, whereby borders shift and change character and new borders replace older ones...

The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to th...

For many years religion has been the neglected component of international relations and yet in an age of globalization and terrorism, religious ide...

This book aims to outline and promote an ethnographic approach to evaluating international peacebuilding interventions in transitional states. Whil...