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  • - A Sociological Perspective on Civil Wars and Conflict
    by Daniel Bultmann
    £38.49

    There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency. This book puts forth that the type of power being utilised depends on the habitus of the respective commander and, as a result, becomes socially differentiated.

  • by Howard M Hensel
    £123.99

    This book focuses on security dynamics in the contemporary Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. It highlights the development of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, the contemporary challenges and opportunities confronting the principal powers that are active in this important sub-region, and analyzes and evaluates their policy responses. The various perspectives of the chapters all suggest that the stability and security of the Gulf sub-region is now and will continue in the future to be of vital importance to the global community. The chapters that compose the volume are organized into three thematic sections. Part I, 'Security Challenges and Power Configurations in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula: The Historical Context', comprises three chapters. Part II, consisting of seven chapters, is entitled, 'Contemporary Security Challenges and Opportunities in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula.' Part III, 'Contemporary National Interests, Objectives, and Strategies of the Major Powers in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula', comprises five chapters. Finally, the volume ends with a concluding chapter.Unfortunately, the contemporary unstable, heterogeneous Gulf sub-region is fraught with extremely serious and often urgent challenges that threaten the sub-region's security. This volume helps to illuminate the nature of the sub-regional environment and the contemporary challenges and opportunities that confront the various powers that are active in the Gulf. It also contributes to a greater understanding of the interests, contemporary objectives, and strategies of those powers as they formulate and implement policies in response to the challenges and opportunities that they confront.This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, Middle Eastern politics and International Relations.

  • by MD, Italy) Romaniuk, USA) Grice, et al.
    £123.99

  • - From Decolonization to Recent Times
    by Kaushik (Jadavpur University, Norway) Roy, India and PRIO, et al.
    £41.99 - 141.99

  • by Robert Brannon
    £123.99

    Putin's style of leadership has transitioned into another era but there is much still inherited from the past. In the often anarchic environment of the 1990s, the nascent Russian Federation experienced misunderstandings and missteps in civil-military relations.

  • - A 24/7 Joint Effort for Stability
    by Myriame T.I.B. Bollen
    £45.49 - 123.99

    Addresses varying types of cooperation between the military and a range of civilian actors. This volume analyses civil-military cooperation in different settings such as during emergency relief operations (tsunami, earthquakes and refugee crises) and during stability and reconstruction operations such as peace support in Afghanistan and the Congo.

  • - Security and Defence Transformation
     
    £137.49

  • - An Inside Look at Brazil's Aerospace Strategies
     
    £137.49

    This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil¿s aerospace strategies.

  • - Outside Military Intervention in Civil Wars
    by Zachary C. Shirkey
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Building on his earlier volume, Is this a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join?, Zachary C. Shirkey looks at how the decision to join a civil war can be intuitively understood as follows.

  • - Wings for Peace
    by A. Walter Dorn
    £41.99 - 137.49

    Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. In rich detail this volume describes: aircraft transporting vital supplies to UN peacekeepers and massive amounts of humanitarian aid to war-affected populations.

  • - Lessons Learned from the Norwegian Model
    by Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv
    £132.99

    A novel examination of civil-military interaction in particular between militaries and humanitarian actors, in light of the so-called 'Norwegian model' that espouses a clear divide between political and humanitarian (or military and civilian - the model is in fact unclear) actors, while maintaining a tight coordination between them.

  • - Britain's Conflict with Indonesia
    by Christopher Tuck
    £132.99

    At the heart of this book is the problem of war termination. The British experience in Indonesia in the 1960s represents an illuminating case study of the difficulties associated with strategy and the successful termination of conflicts. The value of this book lies in two areas.

  • by Mr Jonathan Bailey & Richard Iron
    £137.49

    Based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning, this title embraces the UK's major operations since the end of the Cold War, focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • - Understanding Regional Security Dynamics
     
    £105.99

    This book examines the security dynamics of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific, concentrating upon an analysis and evaluation of the air power capabilities of the various powers active in the two regions.

  • - A Framework For Modern War
    by Colin M. Fleming
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Building on the existing corpus of scholarship, this is the first book to apply the Clausewitzian Trinity of 'passion, chance, and reason' to the experience of real war. It explores the depth and validity of the concept against the conflicts of former Yugoslavia - wars thought to epitomise a post-Clausewitzian age.

  • - Policy, Strategy and Operations
    by Warren Chin
    £132.99

    This book is an analysis of Britain's war against Al Qaeda and the phenomenon of international terrorism which marked a paradigm shift in the nature and conduct of war in the twenty-first century. At the heart of the book is an attempt to understand why Britain, which possessed a wealth of experience in the conduct of counterterrorism.

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