Books in the Routledge Global Security Studies series

Considers the extent and nature of the global revival in the use of nuclear energy in the coming decades and its likely impact on global nuclear governance.

This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats.

Analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region - the Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and, India-Pakistan. This book is of interest to students of international conflict management, Asian politics, security studies and IR in general.

Analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security, particularly where energy resources have become the object of military competition. This volume examines the role of the United States as the chief guarantor of the global economy, and the challenge this poses for its exercise of military power.

Examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy.

This book outlines the construction, interpretations and understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early twenty-first century.

Iran's nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the forefront of international security concerns since 2000. This book argues that Iran's hostility with the United States remains the major causal factor for its proliferation activities.

Looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.

Adopting an analytical approach that seeks to incorporate theories of risk, global governance and security, this book intends to explore the overlapping multi-level and multi-lateral dynamics of the global security architecture which have remained neglected and unmapped thus far in the war on terror.

Simply defined, threat inflation is the effort by elites to create concern for a threat that goes beyond the scope and urgency that disinterested analysis would justify, such as in the build up to the Iraq war and over Iran's nuclear ambitions since mid-2007. This work addresses threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics.

Offers an examination of America's nuclear weapons policy since the end of the Cold War. Exploring nuclear forces structure, arms control, regional planning and the weapons production complex, this volume identifies sets of ideas about nuclear weapons and domestic political constraints on major shifts in policy.

Explores the relationship between the accelerating process of globalization and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which is seen as the pre-eminent threat to international security.

Offers a critical analysis of the practice of post-conflict security - promoting interventions since the Cold War, such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), and security-sector reform (SSR). This book issues a challenge to 'conventional' approaches to security promotion as conceived by military and peace-keeping forces.

Argues that Network Centric Warfare (NCW) influences how developed militaries operate in the same fashion that an operating system influences the development of computer software. This book examines the military power of the US; the influence of NCW on military thinking; and, the centrality of coalition operations in modern military endeavours.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis in International Relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. It also explores how various solutions were fashioned in the face of many predicaments, and why these solutions were deemed as effective or ineffective.

Explores the Fourth-Generation Warfare thesis in detail and its implications for security planning in the twenty-first century through a series of essays written by top international security scholars and military professionals.

Explores the Fourth-Generation Warfare thesis in detail and its implications for security planning in the twenty-first century through a series of essays written by top international security scholars and military professionals.

Nuclear weapons remain an essential part of the security policies of leading states. This volume assesses contemporary efforts to stem nuclear proliferation with a view to recommending better non-proliferation tools and strategies. It is of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, and international security in general.

This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War.

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa.

This book examines the strategic implications of Iran's nuclear programme, providing an inventory of the negotiations and a discussion of possible solutions to this pressing international security issue.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis in International Relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

This volume of essays provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward.

This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-cold war era (1991-2018).

Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as the common causes of war. This book explains why such power shifts lead to war breaking out in some cases, but not in others.