Book Series in Military, Strategic and Security Studies
Routledge Global Security Studies
New & Published Titles:
US Strategy in Africa
AFRICOM, Terrorism and Security Challenges
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…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48510-4 (Routledge)
Great Powers and Strategic Stability in the 21st Century
Competing Visions of World Order
This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power -…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56054-2 (Routledge)
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Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Responding to the Challenge
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…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57065-7 (Routledge)
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Iran and Nuclear Weapons
Protracted Conflict and Proliferation
This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation.
Iran’s nuclear…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45307-3 (Routledge)
Political Economy and Grand Strategy
A Neoclassical Realist View
This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49367-3 (Routledge)
Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century
The New Disorder
This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.
Nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55228-8 (Routledge)
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Nuclear Proliferation and International Security
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has long been key in non-proliferation and disarmament activities. The Treaty is the major international legal obstacle for states seeking nuclear…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54515-0 (Routledge)
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American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear
Threat Inflation since 9/11
This edited volume addresses the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. The Bush administration's aggressive campaign to build public support…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77769-8 (Routledge)
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Risk, Global Governance and Security
The Other War on Terror
This book applies risk society theory to the 'War on Terror', steering the discussion away from the militaristic discourse of the Bush era towards an…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47196-1 (Routledge)
Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict
Debating Fourth-Generation Warfare
This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77837-4 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
International Arms Trade: Regimes, Norms and Moral Progress
By Denise Garcia
To be published December 31st 2010
Nuclear Energy, Security and Global Governance: Taming the Atomic Phoenix
By Trevor Findlay
To be published October 31st 2010
Detecting Nuclear Weapons: The IAEA and the Politics of Proliferation
By Chen Kane
To be published October 30th 2010
The Politics of Nuclear Cooperation: A Diversionary Peace Theory of Non-Proliferation
By Sung-Ju Cho
To be published September 30th 2010
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Taking the NPT Seriously
By Sverre Lodgaard
To be published September 30th 2010
Regional Powers and Security Orders: A Theoretical Framework
By Derrick Frazier, Robert Stewart-Ingersoll
To be published September 30th 2010
Nuclear Proliferation and International Order: Challenges to the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Edited by Olav Njølstad
To be published July 28th 2010
International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific: Patterns, Consequences and Management
By Jacob Bercovitch, Mikio Oishi
To be published June 23rd 2010
The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security and Identity
By Veronica M. Kitchen
To be published May 13th 2010
