Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan

Violence and Transformation in the Karachi Conflict

By Nichola Khan

Synthesizing political, anthropological and psychological perspectives, this book addresses the everyday causes and appeal of long-term involvement in extreme political violence in urban Pakistan. Taking...

March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55490-9 (Routledge)

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Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts

Challenging the Weberian State

Edited by Keith Krause

Armed groups operating beyond the state have become the most important actors in most contemporary wars and violent conflicts, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Colombia...

March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-57457-0 (Routledge)

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Soft Power and US Foreign Policy

Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by Inderjeet Parmar, Michael Cox

The rise of widespread negative attitudes towards US foreign policy, especially due to the war of aggression against Iraq and the subsequent military occupation of...

March 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49204-1 (Routledge)

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Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction

Case Studies from Lebanon in the Aftermath of the 2006 War

Edited by Howayda Al-Harithy

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process...

March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-57105-0 (Routledge)

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Continuity, Change and Crisis in Contemporary Ireland

Edited by Brian Girvin, Gary Murphy

The focus of this book is to analyse from a number of perspectives the politics of change in Ireland north and south since 1969. The...

February 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56573-8 (Routledge)

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International Conflict Mediation

New Approaches and Findings

Edited by Jacob Bercovitch, Scott Sigmund Gartner

This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines...

February 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57648-2 (Routledge)

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India’s National Security

Annual Review 2009

Edited by Satish Kumar

Each year, this annual gives readers an in-depth and up-to-date account of India’s external and internal threats in a deteriorating global security environment. It shows...

February 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-57141-8 (Routledge India)

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India's Nuclear Debate

Exceptionalism and the Bomb

By Priyanjali Malik

Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from supporting...

February 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56312-3 (Routledge India)

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US Strategy in Africa

AFRICOM, Terrorism and Security Challenges

Edited by David J. Francis

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

No single issue or event in the recent...

February 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48510-4 (Routledge)

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Security, Risk and the Biometric State

Governing Borders and Bodies

By Benjamin Muller

This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life.

In the wake of the...

February 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48440-4 (Routledge)

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