Books in the Routledge Global Security Studies series

This book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation.

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book critically assesses the suggestion that strengthening existing international prohibitions against state-level acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction could safeguard against the possibility of their use by terrorists targeting civilians.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.