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  • Nordic Societal Security

    Convergence and Divergence

    Series series Routledge New Security Studies
    This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of ‘societal security’, and its broadly equivalent concepts, in Sweden, Norway, ... Read more

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  • Diagrams of Targeted Justice

    This short ebook presents the diagrams and flyers that have been made available through TargetedJustice.comTargeted is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to exposing and ending the CIA's illegal torture program of U.S. civilians - through public awareness, education, and legal actions. We only advocate for non-violent solutions.We are the internet's most popular website for Targeted ... Read more

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  • Romans at War

    Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic

    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    This volume addresses the fundamental importance of the army, warfare, and military service to the development of both the Roman Republic and wider Italic society in the second half of the first millennium BC.It brings together emerging and established scholars in the area of Roman military studies to engage with subjects such as the relationship between warfare and economic and demographic ... Read more

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  • Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe

    Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness

    This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what ... Read more

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  • The Russia-Ukraine War

    Towards Resilient Fighting Power

    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to assess the operational performance of both sides during the first year of the full-scale invasion.The Russian war in Ukraine began in 2014 and continued for eight years, before the full-scale invasion of 24 February 2022. It is not a new war, but the intensity of the warfighting ... Read more

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  • Russia’s Cultural Statecraft

    This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension.Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a ... Read more

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  • Securitization Outside the West

    West African Security Reconceptualised

    Series series Routledge New Security Studies
    This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West, with a focus on Africa.The aim of the volume is to develop an original analytical framework to explain the securitization-neo-patrimonialism dynamics in West Africa, drawing upon insights from securitization theory, sociology and psychology. Among critical voices, securitization has become the gold standard for analysing emerging ... Read more

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  • Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace

    Series series Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
    This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace.Over the past three decades, cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However, scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in cyberspace has been produced along somewhat rigid disciplinary boundaries and an even more rigid ... Read more

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  • Criminal Futures

    Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work

    Series series Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
    This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how ... Read more

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  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • Violence in Extreme Conditions

    Ethical Challenges in Military Practice

    As an organization operating under extreme conditions, the military is often confronted with destructive behavior from individuals, organizations, and societies. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, this open access book reflects on confrontations with violence under extreme conditions and the various challenges that arise.By examining real first-hand accounts of soldiers’ deployments ... Read more

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  • Security, Loyalty, and Science

    Series series Cornell Studies in Civil Liberties
    Both sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national security and its effect upon scientific progress.The costs and advantages of secrecy in certain areas of science and the conflict between national safety and individual rights in the administration of our federal loyalty program are presented; all the arguments are objectively weighed. The ... Read more

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  • International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management

    Challenges of Cooperation and Coordination

    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This volume aims to provide a detailed explanation of the effects of cooperation and coordination on international multiparty mediation in conflicts.Contemporary scholarship stresses that the crucial ingredients for a successful multiparty mediation are ‘consistency in interests’ and ‘cooperation and coordination’ between mediators. This book seeks to supplement that understanding by investigating ... Read more

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  • Oslo Manual on Select Topics of the Law of Armed Conflict

    Rules and Commentary

    This new open access book provides a valuable restatement of the current law of armed conflict regarding hostilities in a diverse range of contexts: outer space, cyber operations, remote and autonomous weapons, undersea systems and devices, submarine cables, civilians participating in unmanned operations, military objectives by nature, civilian airliners, destruction of property, surrender, search ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions

    Theory and Applications

    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operating in contemporary liberal democracies.Intelligence collection by agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and Mossad involves practices that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of ordinary morality – practices such as lying, spying, manipulation, and covert action. However, in the defence of national security, ... Read more

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  • Procurement and Politics

    Strategies of Defence Acquisition in Canada and Australia

    This open access book compares the experiences of large-scale military procurement in Canada and Australia. Focusing on the recent frigate and jet-fighter programmes, it demonstrates how delays suffered in delivering weapons systems and platforms in these countries have been caused by misalignments between the strategic requirements set out by the armed forces and government defence policies. By ... Read more

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  • Friendship Across the Seas

    The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

    by Naoyuki Agawa ...
    This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the individuals who helped build it. Former enemies who fought fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War, the two navies came to respect each other in action. Soon ... Read more

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  • Museums for Peace

    In Search of History, Memory, and Change

    Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the inspiring as well as conflicting representations and purposes of diverse museums for peace around the world.Coming from various cultural and professional backgrounds, the authors explore “what are museums for peace and what do they mean?” Some chapters introduce alternative histories of peace, conflict, and memorialization. ... Read more

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  • Conflict-Sensitive Conservation

    Lessons from the Global Environment Facility

    This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.Seeking to better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and outcomes of environmental projects, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office and the Environmental Law Institute undertook ... Read more

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  • Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda

    Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators

    by Sara E. Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Gender and Security
    This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims or perpetrated crimes against humanity. This book explores and analyzes the role played by women who ... Read more

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  • Secrecy and Methods in Security Research

    A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork

    This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy.How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, when they encounter confidential material, closed-off quarters or bureaucratic rebuffs? This is a particular challenge for researchers in the security field, which is by nature secretive and difficult ... Read more

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  • Russia–EU Relations and the Common Neighborhood

    Coercion vs. Authority

    Series series Post-Soviet Politics
    Examining Russia–EU relations in terms of the forms and types of power tools they use, this book argues that the deteriorating relations between Russia and the EU lie in the deep differences in their preferences for the international status quo. These different approaches, combined with economic interdependence and geographic proximity, means both parties experience significant difficulties in ... Read more

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  • Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique

    Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging

    by Jonna Katto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
    This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation.Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through a study of the ... Read more

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  • Trust and Terror

    Social Capital and the Use of Terrorism as a Tool of Resistance

    Series series Conceptualising Comparative Politics
    Why do some individuals choose to protest political grievances via non-violent means, while others take up arms? What role does whom we trust play in how we collectively act?This book explores these questions by delving into the relationship between interpersonal trust and the nature of the political movements that individuals choose to join. Utilizing the examples of the Arab Spring uprisings in ... Read more

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