This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding…

This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq.

The preference for…

This book explores the paradox of the ‘security dilemma’ in International Relations, as applied to the post-9/11 context of homeland security.

The book's central argument can…

It has become generally accepted wisdom that democracies do not go to war against each other. However, there are significant differences between democratic states in…

This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and…

This volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to cyberconflict and its implications for global security and politics.

Taking a multidimensional approach to current debates…

This new volume provides the first thorough examination of the involvement of peace enforcement soldiers in the detention of indicted war criminals.

The book firstly…

This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific region.

The work is structured into three…

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…

Focusing on East Asia, this book sets out a framework for analyzing infectious disease threats in security terms. It covers the security significance of naturally…