Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security.Andrew Priest closely examines this key re
This book examines how and to what extent academic research in politics and international studies has had 'impact' ― in doing so, it also considers what might characterise ‘world leading’ research imp
This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society and technology, as well as the military.
This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative ‘poles’ of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.Written by emerging scholars and e
The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice. This book critically examines the role
This book explores the intended and unintended impact international criminal justice has on the legitimacy of Quasi-State Entities. ‘Quasi-state entity’ is a novel concept introduced to distinguish ac
This book examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings.It uses the methodology of Peter Singer to question whether the Obama administration’s defence of its us
This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Force (IDF).Since the beginning of the 21st century the ID
This volume seeks to understand the central role of governments in intra-state conflicts.The book explores how the government in any society plays two pivotal roles: as a deterrent against those who w
This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars.The United Stat
This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive s
This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The book has three main
This book investigates why some societies defer the solution of transitional justice issues, such as the disappeared/missing, even after successful democratic consolidation. It also explains why the s
"This book explores 'lessons learned' from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO's intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikel
This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising
This volume examines the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was created under Chapter VII of t
The Vietnam War has generated significant diplomatic and cultural influences on US foreign policy. This book explores the construction and interaction of US collective memory with the politics of US i
This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era.After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa.Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic
This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security.Drawing on constructivist theory, the framework of the book focuses on the meeting - or 'interface' - of actors, a situa
By examining Russia’s military, economic, political, and diplomatic policies towards the former Soviet states since 1991, this book assesses whether Russian leaders have been able to discard the count
Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few
Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of
