Responding to the Challenge

Edited by Ian Bellany

There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by David Chandler

Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of...

Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge.

US Efforts to Secure the Information Age

By Myriam Dunn Cavelty

This book explores the political process behind the construction of cyber-threats as one of the quintessential security threats of modern times in the US.

Myriam Dunn...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Peter Lavoy

The intensification of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises has created new fears that deteriorating security conditions in the Middle East, Northeast Asia, and...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

Declining States and International Conflict

By Dong Sun Lee

Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as among the most common causes...

Published November 15th 2007 by Routledge.

Rebuilding Fragile States

Edited by Derick W. Brinkerhoff

Foreword Frederick D. Barton Preface Derick W. Brinkerhoff 1. Governance Challenges in Fragile States: Re-Establishing Security, Rebuilding Effectiveness, and Reconstituting Legitimacy Derick W. Brinkerhoff Part...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

Security and the War on Terror

Edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies, Richard Devetak

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point in international politics, representing a new type of threat that could not easily be...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

China's War on Terrorism

Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security

By Martin I. Wayne

China’s war on terror is among its most prominent and least understood of campaigns. With links to the global jihad, an indigenous insurgency threatens the...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

NATO and EU Options in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

By Thanos P. Dokos

As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

Critical Infrastructure, Risk and (In)Security

By Myriam Anna Dunn, Kristian Søby Kristensen

This edited volume uses a ‘constructivist/reflexive’ approach to address critical infrastructure protection (CIP), a central political practice associated with national security.

The politics of CIP, and...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.