International Law and the Use of Armed Force

Joel Westra

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• Since the UN Charter came into effect in 1945, there have been numerous incidents in which one or more of the five major powers (at least arguably) vi... Lees meer

Controlling the Weapons of War

Brian Rappert

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. ... Lees meer

Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War

Reuben E Brigety

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• A new investigation into how the advent of precision-guided munitions affects the likelihood of US policy makers to use force. As such, this is an inq... Lees meer

Kennedy, Johnson and NATO

Andrew Priest

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international s... Lees meer

Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice

Iosif Kovras

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation. Lees meer

Reconciliation after War

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconci... Lees meer

The NATO Intervention in Libya

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book explores 'lessons learned' from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO's intervention i... Lees meer

Women, Peace and Security

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender eq... Lees meer

Media Strategy and Military Operations in the 21st Century

Michal Shavit

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (... Lees meer

Explaining War and Peace

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This edited volume focuses on the use of 'necessary condition counterfactuals' in explaining two key events in twentieth century history, the origins ... Lees meer

Private Security Contractors and New Wars

Kateri Carmola

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulati... Lees meer

The Political Road to War with Iraq

Nick Ritchie, Paul Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This volume explores in close detail the events and factors leading up to the second Gulf War in 2003 and considers whether war with Iraq was inevitab... Lees meer

Multipolarity in the 21st Century

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline an... Lees meer

Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Iva Vukusic

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, nature, and function of Serbian paramilitary units during the violent break... Lees meer

Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security

Lionel Ponsard

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political cultu... Lees meer

Justice, Intervention, and Force in International Relations

Kimberly A Hudson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book analyses the problems of current just war theory, and offers a more stable justificatory framework for non-intervention in international rel... Lees meer

The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing

Stephen J Cimbala, Peter Forster

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in w... Lees meer

Aggression, Crime and International Security

Page Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book examines the concept of aggression in international relations, and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security o... Lees meer

Reconstructing Afghanistan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Te... Lees meer

Ethics and the Laws of War

Antony Lamb

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. ... Lees meer

Women, Peace and Security

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender eq... Lees meer

War as Risk Management

Yee-Kuang Heng

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response. It ad... Lees meer

Europeanization of National Security Identity

Pernille Rieker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• This new book tackles two key questions: 1) How is the EU functioning as a security actor? 2) How and to what extent is the EU affecting national secu... Lees meer

Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations

James V Arbuckle

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Security Studies
• A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and pro... Lees meer