Books in the Contemporary Security Studies series

Offers a different look at European Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) and their implications for transatlantic co-operation in future operations. This book shows how, with the removal of the risks of Soviet invasion, European defence planners must now modify their strategies and capabilities to address new threats, both at home and overseas.

Explores various biohealth and biosecurity threats, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. This book covers bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, pandemic disease preparedness and remediation, and environmental issues.

Highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centred national security favoured by Washington, showing how the national security state remains largely intact. This work is intended for students of strategic studies, security studies and international relations.

Useful for those wishing to understand the Iraq war from a many perspectives, this book contains analysis of the Iraq War from several different academic, as well as military perspectives. Its emphasis is on the links between US foreign policy, US strategy and the US conduct of war.

This is an effort to explain the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with German, French, and other West European attitudes.

Drawing upon research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a practical predictive perspective, this book delivers a fresh contribution to terrorism studies. It shows us that while predicting terrorism is a highly speculative business, there are ways of identifying certain long-term causes.

Presents, tests, and analyzes what has come to be known as the territorial explanation of war.

Examines the international political order in the post-Cold War era, arguing that this order has become progressively more punitive. This title argues for the necessary presence of justice, authority and agency if punishment is to function effectively. It also explores intervention, sanctions, counter-terrorism policy, and war crimes tribunals.

For so-long the cornerstone of the transatlantic partnership, the evolution of NATO has profound implications for the co-operative or competitive nature of transatlantic relations and regional and global security governance. This title provides an overview of the evolution of NATO, alliances and global security governance in the 21st century.

This book explores the idea of a 'revolution in military affairs' (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states.

"This book is the first to explore comprehensively the rise of UK private military companies on the international stage."--Jacket.

Asserts that bad offences and defences have been endemic to the US policy approach, leading US policy makers to pursue policies that require them to do everything without adequate concern for resource trade-offs, and unintended consequences. This book is suitable for students of US foreign policy, national and international security, and others.

Focuses on the use of 'necessary condition counterfactuals' in explaining two key events in twentieth century history, the start of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. Containing essays by leading figures in the field, this book analyzes the causal logics of necessary and sufficient conditions.

As 'War on Terror' evolves into 'Long War' against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring security of United States and its allies. This book argues that post-Cold War security paradigm is fundamentally unsustainable. It also includes essays on the need for a conception of global security rooted in justice and emancipation.

Offers an examination of the evolution of Russian-NATO relations since the Cold War. This book shows to what extent cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic entities: NATO and Russia.

Provides a reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations. This book examines this key relationship by focusing on the Nassau agreement of December 1962. It places Nassau in its context and shows how multi-level collaboration continued between the US and UK in NATO despite tensions over American involvement in Southeast Asia and Britain's role.

Challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants' involvement in ethno-national conflicts. Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been depicted.

This book tells the story of NATO's secret anti-communist stay-behind armies that had been set up by the CIA and MI6 after World War II in all countries of Western Europe and in some countries became tragically linked to right-wing terrorism.

This book is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and explore whether it is waxing or waning.

Analyses the complexities of the political, economic and cultural relationship that exists between America and Europe in its historical and contemporary context. This book also assesses the long-term consequences of the divisions that have occurred as a result of neo-conservative influences on American foreign policy.

Includes essays which offer a series of perspectives on connections and parallels between the Vietnam War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This work examines the impact of the Vietnam analogy on the War in Iraq, assessing the military tactical lessons learned from the Vietnam War, exploring the influence and persistence of its legacy in US politics.

US missile defence policy plays a crucial part on the international scene and is typically studied from US perspectives. This book is different. It delivers sharp analyses of regional and national variations and integrates them with US viewpoints. This book shows that the global ramifications of US missile defence policy are contingent upon distinct regional and national variations.

We are living amidst the fallout of the most controversial conflict of our times. This book is a tough examination of how and why it was fought and of its continuing effects. This major new work contains analysis of the Iraq War from several different academic, as well as military perspectives. Its emphasis is on the links between US foreign policy, US strategy and the US conduct of war and it also covers Iraqi grand strategies, the consequences of the War for transatlantic relations, and includes a chapter on the International Law dimension. In scrutinzing the war and the behaviour of its main parties, the editors draw upon international relations, political science, strategic thought and military theory, plus international law and media studies. For those wishing to understand the Iraq war from a very wide range of rigorous perspectives, this is a must-read.