Military & Strategic Studies

This Adelphi Paper argues that, instead of an imperious strategy focusing on counter-proliferation and the treat of preventive war, the recovery of order must entail the pursuit of international legitimacy as well as efficacy and it will require all states to accept restraint and to honour their mut..

This book examines the use of concepts – specifically ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) – in US foreign policy and national security discourse...

This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East...

This Adelphi examines the myriad challenges America must confront if it is to uphold and spread its values...

This book details the frenzied rise and fall of a handful of Cossack junior officers led by Captain Grigori Semionov, who established themselves as warlords in Siberia during Russia's violent revolutionary upheaval of 1918-1921...

This book explores women’s activities in militant insurgencies and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars and how that challenges or endorses gender norms...

Drawing on research carried out on the ground in Yemen, this Adelphi examines the shadowy structures that govern political life and sustain a network of social elites predisposed against any far-reaching systemic reform..