Books in the Routledge Global Security Studies series

Offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order.

Examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.

Examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century. This book is suitable for students of nuclear proliferation, international security, war and conflict studies and IR in general.

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.

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

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.