Ending Terrorism

Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda

By Audrey Kurth Cronin

Like all other terrorist movements, al-Qaeda will end. While it has traits that exploit and reflect the current international context, it is not utterly without...

Published April 30th 2008 by Routledge.

Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups

By Margaret Gonzalez-Perez

This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era. Utilizing comparative research into 26 terrorist organizations world-wide, the...

Published April 29th 2008 by Routledge.

South Asia's Cold War

Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

By Rajesh M. Basrur

This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear...

Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Robert J. Bunker

The United States and her allies have found themselves plunged into ‘a war over [humanity’s] future social and political organization’ with criminal challengers to the...

Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence

The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise

By Dipak K. Gupta

This book explains the lifecycle of terrorist organizations from an innovative theoretical perspective, combining economics with social psychology. It provides a new approach to understanding...

Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge.

The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority

Edited by Bruce Cronin, Ian Hurd

Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the basic idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs. The...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Five Years After 9/11

Edited by Everette B. Penn

No event has shaped international events of recent years more than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Tragically, less than four years later, Hurricane...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

Data, Methods and Theory

Edited by Glenn Palmer

Investigation into the causes of international conflict has in many ways formed the central locus of the early work in the scientific investigation of world...

Published January 24th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Mark T. Berger, Douglas A. Borer

The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider...

Published January 24th 2008 by Routledge.

Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations

Edited by Andrew Alexandra, Deane-Peter Baker, Marina Caparini

Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that...

Published January 17th 2008 by Routledge.