Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns

The case studies of this volume examine how and when cultural factors affect the elaboration and implementation of arms control and security-building policies...

The case studies of this volume examine how and when cultural factors affect the elaboration and implementation of arms control and security-building policies...

The essays and topical cases in this book explore such issues as networks and networked thinking, information ownership, censorship, neutrality, cyberwars, humanitarian needs, terrorism, privacy and rebellion, giving a comprehensive overview of the core issues in the field, complemented by real worl..

How can the core transatlantic Allies make coalitions more effective? This work offers one of the most comprehensive independent assessments to date of the Kosovo campaign, and of the performance of the NATO allies. This is an important subject area in which there is a great deal of international in..

Dr. Larivé questions whether there is such a thing as a European defense and security policy. This book analyzes the integration process by clearly illustrating to the reader the two sides of the argument in order to understand the complexity of the problems in the different stages of the creation a..

Debating the End of Yugoslavia is less an attempt to re-write the dissolution of Yugoslavia, or to provide a different narrative, than to take stock and reflect on the scholarship to date. New sources and data offer fresh avenues of research avoiding the passion of the moment that often characterize..

Published in 1999. The Cold War has been used all too often to set the parameters of what is important to explain in international affairs in the post-war period. The essays contained in this book provide thought-provoking scholarship which helps us both to nuance our understanding of the Cold War a..

This collection of essays explores the changing face of militarism from the perspective of defence management experts...

Published in 1997, this book is an analysis of the reorientation of security policies and the accompanying restructuring of the armed forces in South Africa and the rest of Southern Africa...

This comprehensive volume discusses the various challenges of establishing and maintaining accountable and democratically controlled intelligence services, drawing both from states with well-established democratic systems and those emerging from authoritarian systems and in transition towards democr..

Presenting the developmental trends in privatization and internationalization of armed force, this volume analyzes the impact of these trends on the Nordic countries' defence and security sectors...

The Cold War has been succeeded by a new state of play.This new collection of papers rigorously examines the current place of nuclear and other forms of deterrence in international security relations...