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  • European Security and Defence Policy

    An Implementation Perspective

    Security and defence is the area in which the EU has advanced most in recent years. A principal element of this process is the proliferating number of military and civilian crisis management missions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Clearly, Europe has come a long way since the disappointments and frustration in the 1990s, when, in light of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • India's National Security

    Annual Review 2015–16

    Edited by Satish Kumar ...
    The last two years have witnessed deterioration in the global security situation characterised by increasing tensions among major powers. The threat perceptions of the US, China and Russia vis-à-vis each other have sharpened. There is stiff competition among them to dominate the strategic space in different parts of the world. This has led them to formulate national security strategies which are ... Read more

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  • Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

    NATO and EU Options in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

    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 of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the past decade has been the extraordinary diffusion of war-making capabilities from the developed North to ... Read more

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  • Nuclear South Asia

    Keywords and Concepts

    This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons, and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states. This will serve as a useful reference especially as the nuclear issue continues to be an important domestic and international policy concern. ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Destroying Surplus Small Arms

    Inconspicuous Disarmament

    Edited by Aaron Karp ...
    Although it receives much less attention than better known disarmament processes, the destruction of small arms is reshaping the military arsenals of the world. Out of roughly 200 modern military small arms world-wide, about 500,000 are destroyed every year. The commitment of major governments and international organizations makes small arms destruction is a permanent addition to the global ... Read more

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  • Indian Power Projection

    Ambition, Arms and Influence

    Series series Whitehall Papers
    India is growing into one of Asia’s most important military powers. Its defence budget has more than doubled in the past decade, and it imports more arms than anyone else in the world. But India is still seen as a land power focused on long, disputed and militarised borders with Pakistan and China rather than the global military force it was in the first half of the twentieth century under British ... Read more

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  • The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism

    The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism, a new book from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, assesses the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to acquire and use nuclear weapons, to fabricate and and detonate crude nuclear explosives, to strike nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities, and to build and employ radiological weapons or "dirty bombs." ... Read more

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  • Cluster Munitions and International Law

    Disarmament With a Human Face?

    Series series Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflict
    This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use of cluster munitions under international humanitarian law, human rights law, and international ... Read more

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  • Superpower Rivalry and Conflict

    The Long Shadow of the Cold War on the 21st Century

    Edited by Chandra Chari ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent century in human history’, the 20th century – and in particular the period between the First World War and the collapse of the USSR – forms a coherent historical period which changed the entire face of human history within a few decades. This ... Read more

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  • An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    A 50-year retrospective

    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective.Despite the discoveries of recent research, there is still much more to be revealed about the handling of nuclear weapons before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC). Featuring contributions from a number of eminent international scholars of nuclear history, intelligence, ... Read more

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  • Emerging Transnational (In)security Governance

    A Statist-Transnationalist Approach

    Edited by Ersel Aydinli ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security cooperation experiences. The resulting chapters provide original theoretical perspectives on evolving international security cooperation practices.Beginning with the premise that ... Read more

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  • The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and India

    Edited by Rajiv Nayan ...
    The relationship of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with India has been an interesting subject in the field of security studies. The nuclearisation of India and its subsequent rise are further forcing the world to redefine its relationship with the treaty. However, the international response is quite mixed. The old mindset still thinks that India may join the treaty as a Non-Nuclear Weapon ... Read more

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  • Protracted Refugee Situations

    Domestic and International Security Implications

    Series series Adelphi series
    Protracted refugee populations not only constitute over 70% of the world's refugees but are also a principal source of many of the irregular movements of people around the world today. The long-term presence of refugee populations in much of the developing world has come to be seen by many host states in these regions as a source of insecurity.In response, host governments have enacted policies of ... Read more

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  • Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Origins of the Nuclear Order

    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This volume offers a critical historical assessment of the negotiation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and of the origins of the nonproliferation regime.The NPT has been signed by 190 states and was indefinitely extended in 1995, rendering it the most successful arms control treaty in history. Nevertheless, little is known about the motivations and strategic calculi ... Read more

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  • Somalia: State Collapse, Terrorism and Piracy

    Edited by Brian J. Hesse ...
    The situation in Somalia today embodies some of the most pressing issues in international relations. How should the international community deal with the collapsed state that is Somalia? From the presence of al-Qaeda operatives to pirates, to what extent is Somalia a threat to global peace and commerce? Which aspects of Somalia's economic, social and political landscape can be considered ... Read more

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  • South Asia's Cold War

    Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear rivals.Drawing on nuclear rivalries between similar pairs (United States-Soviet Union, United States-China, Soviet Union-China, and United States-North Korea), the work examines the rise, process and potential end of the cold war between ... Read more

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  • Iran's Nuclear Diplomacy

    Power politics and conflict resolution

    Series series Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
    This book examines the dynamics of relations and the substance of the negotiations between the international community and Iran over the latter's nuclear programme***.***Iran’s nuclear programme and the alleged threat to international peace and security remains one of the most important issues in the United States, as well as in European foreign affairs. In the US, Iran has dominated the political ... Read more

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  • Politico-Military Strategy of the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971

    This book critically examines the politico-military strategy of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. What began as a power struggle and cultural conflict between West and East Pakistan, later compelled India to intervene—an intervention that decisively shaped and influenced the geo-politics of the region and the global order.This volume is a systematic ... Read more

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  • Geo-economics and Geo-securities in the Indian Ocean Region

    Edited by Timothy Doyle ...
    There are important changes in regional and global demographics ahead of us. A profound rise in the number of citizens in the Indian Ocean Region in the next fifty years will have significant impacts on the state, on the nature and operation of markets and the neo-liberal framework they operate in, and raise new challenges for regional security. This book considers the insufficient dialogue ... Read more

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  • A New Trusteeship?

    The International Administration of War-torn Territories

    Series series Adelphi series
    This paper analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations of war-torn territories and discusses the key issues - strategic, political, and economic - that arise in the context of these experiences. It reflects on the policy implications of these experiences and recommends reforms or new approaches to international administration. ... Read more

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  • Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation

    by Wilfred Wan ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in Security and International Affairs Ser.
    The contemporary nuclear landscape is rife with challenges. Stagnated progress in disarmament, widespread modernization plans, and emergent proliferation pathways are contributing to the risk of catastrophe. Meanwhile, global nuclear order appears more precarious than ever.This book makes a case for a regional reorientation of the nuclear nonproliferation regime, arguing that a more specialized, ... Read more

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  • State Behavior and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

    Series Book 19 - Studies in Security and International Affairs Ser.
    This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime—even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation of agreements, initiatives, and norms that work in concert to regulate nuclear material and technology. ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Proliferation and the Psychology of Political Leadership

    Beliefs, Motivations and Perceptions

    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a novel approach to understanding the puzzle of nuclear proliferation by examining how leaders’ beliefs and perceptions about the international system influence states' decisions to acquire nuclear weapons.Today, there is a persisting dilemma over the spread of nuclear weapons for both practitioners and scholars of international affairs. Uncertainty remains whether determined ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Nuclear Designs

    Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms

    by Bruce Larkin ...
    Global politics has changed with unaccustomed swiftness since the end of the Cold War. Eastern Europe is free; the Soviet Union has broken up; China presses free market economic reform; and the United States and Russia have declared a joint commitment to end nuclear war. The force of these changes has created a new agenda for global politics and security policy. This does not mean that nuclear ... Read more

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