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Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges ... and the Need for Change

Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, editors

Why, given the enormous resources spent by the US and Europe on security assistance to Arab countries, has it led to so little success? Can anything be done to change the disheartening status quo? Addressing these thorny questions, the authors of this state-of-the-art assessment evaluate the costs and benefits to the main providers and recipients of security assistance in the MENA region and    More >

Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges ... and the Need for Change

The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Conflict, and the International System

Mohammed Ayoob

This book explores the multifaceted security problems facing the Third World in the aftermath of the Cold War. Ayoob proposes that the major underlying cause of conflict and insecurity in the Third World is the early stage of state making at which postcolonial states find themselves. Drawing comparisons with the West European experience, he argues that this approach provides richer comparative    More >

The Third World Security Predicament:  State Making, Regional Conflict, and the International System

Assessing the War on Terror

Mohammed Ayoob and Etga Ugur, editors

Was the US-led war on terror, especially the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, a necessary response to the September 11 terrorist attacks? What did the two invasions accomplish? How have the fortunes of al-Qaeda and like-minded organizations been affected? The authors of this important contribution to ongoing debates address these questions as they assess the impact and implications of the war on    More >

Assessing the War on Terror

Coalition Politics and the Iraq War: Determinants of Choice

Daniel F. Baltrusaitis

Why do states join ad hoc military coalitions? What motivated South Korea to contribute significantly to the Iraq War "coalition of the willing," while such steadfast allies as Turkey and Germany resisted US pressure to become burden-sharing partners? Drawing on his extensive examination of South Korean, German, and Turkish politics in the approach to and during the Iraq War, Daniel    More >

Coalition Politics and the Iraq War: Determinants of Choice

Tech Cold War: The Geopolitics of Technology

Ansgar Baums and Nicholas Butts

TikTok, Huawei, semiconductors, AI … Technology has become a field of fierce geopolitical competition, especially between the United States and China. What drives this particular rivalry, and how are these two tech superpowers trying to curb each other's innovation systems? What roles do private companies play? As they delve into the complex dynamics of the US-China battle for    More >

Tech Cold War: The Geopolitics of Technology

The Police in War: Fighting Insurgency, Terrorism, and Violent Crime

David H. Bayley and Robert M. Perito

Frustrated efforts in both Iraq and Afghanistan give urgency to the question of how to craft effective, humane, and legitimate security institutions in conflict-ridden states—and whether legitimate policing can in fact be developed in the midst of insurgency and terrorism. David H. Bayley and Robert M. Perito confront these questions head on. Against the backdrop of failed US attempts to    More >

The Police in War: Fighting Insurgency, Terrorism, and Violent Crime

Transnational Organized Crime and International Security: Business as Usual?

Mats Berdal and Mónica Serrano, editors

Though the provision of illicit goods and services is far from being a new phenomenon, today's global economic environment has allowed transnational organized crime an unprecedented capacity to challenge states. The authors of this book examine the trends underlying the explosion of transnational organized crime and consider possible responses. Emphasizing the difficulties encountered by    More >

Transnational Organized Crime and International Security: Business as Usual?

War and Intervention: Issues for Contemporary Peace Operations

Michael V. Bhatia

War and Intervention explains how armed forces, aid agencies, and transitional adminsitrations in war-affected countries have adapted to the changing circumstances of modern war and conflict. It uses a broad range of cases to introduce the reader to the dynamics on the ground. Bhatia's analysis becomes all the more important at a time when the debate continues about the United States's    More >

War and Intervention: Issues for Contemporary Peace Operations

Critical Security Studies and World Politics

Ken Booth, editor

Realist assumptions of security studies increasingly have been challenged by an approach that places the human being, rather than the state, at the center of security concerns. This text is an indispensable statement of the ideas of this critical security project, written by some of its leading exponents.   The book is structured around three concepts—security, community, and    More >

Critical Security Studies and World Politics

Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict

Markus E. Bouillon, David M. Malone, and Ben Rowswell editors

Is an end to the violence in Iraq, and the establishment of an enduring peace within a unified state, a realistic goal? Addressing this question, the authors of Iraq Preventing a New Generation of Conflict consider the sources of conflict in the country and outline the requirements for a successful peacebuilding enterprise.    More >

Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict

Killing Civilians in Civil War: The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence

Jürgen Brandsch

Conventional wisdom tells us that targeting civilians in civil wars makes little sense as a combat strategy. Yet, the indiscriminate violence continues. Why? To tackle this vexing question, Jürgen Brandsch looks closely at the on-the-ground impact of indiscriminate violence—and what he finds shows that there often is, in fact, a method to the madness. Making the provocative argument    More >

Killing Civilians in Civil War: The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence

Mixed Motives, Uncertain Outcomes: Defense Conversion in China

Jorn Brömmelhörster and John Frankenstein, editors

Mixed Motives, Uncertain Outcomes looks critically at China's efforts to adapt its vast military- industrial complex to the service of its socialist market economy. The authors—all of whom have witnessed or participated first-hand in the country's defense conversion—offer political, macroeconomic, business, and military perspectives on this complex issue. The book places the    More >

Mixed Motives, Uncertain Outcomes: Defense Conversion in China

US Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq: Lessons and Legacies

Seyom Brown and Robert H. Scales, editors

How have the costs, both human and material, of US involvement in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq affected the country's will for conducting regime-change operations? What are the implications for issues of strategy? The authors of US Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq assess the impact of the two conflicts on US foreign policy, military planning, and capacities for counterinsurgency and    More >

US Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq: Lessons and Legacies

Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors Are Providing Public Services

Thomas C. Bruneau

Every year, the US Department of Defense allocates more than $400 billion to for-profit firms. Which raises the question: Where does the money go? Thomas Bruneau takes a deep dive into the murky waters of national defense outsourcing to answer that question. Moving beyond the issue of private military contractors, Bruneau investigates the scope, legality, and implications of the private    More >

Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors Are Providing Public Services

Civil-Military Relations: Control and Effectiveness Across Regimes

Thomas C. Bruneau and Aurel Croissant, editors

How does civilian control affect military effectiveness? Can a balance be achieved between the two? In-country experts address these questions through a set of rich comparative case studies. Covering the spectrum from democracies to authoritarian regimes, they explore the nexus of control and effectiveness to reveal its importance for national security and the legitimacy of both political order    More >

Civil-Military Relations: Control and Effectiveness Across Regimes

Pivotal Poland: Europe's Rising Power

Janusz Bugajski

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine precipitated a tectonic shift in European security dynamics, ending a relatively peaceful post–Cold War phase and moving the epicenter of European security eastward, to Poland. Janusz Bugajski explores the nature and context of Warsaw's determined efforts to shape NATO's eastern policy and to build a strong, modern military able to resist    More >

Pivotal Poland: Europe's Rising Power

The Polar Pivot: Great Power Competition in the Arctic and Antarctica

Ryan Patrick Burke

Once impassable and inhospitable, both the Arctic region and Antarctica are rapidly emerging as geopolitically strategic hot spots. As Ryan Burke writes in The Polar Pivot, the ice is melting and the tensions rising. In this new environment, what are the stakes? Why are Russia and China racing to increase their military capabilities and infrastructures in the polar regions? What is the United    More >

The Polar Pivot: Great Power Competition in the Arctic and Antarctica

People, States, and Fear, 2nd ed.: An Agenda for International Security in the Post-Cold War Era

Barry Buzan

The second edition of this widely acclaimed book has been fully revised and updated to include: emphasis on economic, societal, and environmental aspects of security completely rewritten chapters on threat, the international political system, and economic security a new chapter on regional security developments in security concepts during the 1980s expanded discussion of the theory of    More >

People, States, and Fear, 2nd ed.: An Agenda for International Security in the Post-Cold War Era

The Arms Dynamic in World Politics

Barry Buzan and Eric Herring

What is the relationship between the arms dynamic and world politics? How has that relationship changed? Considering the entire set of factors that influence the nature of armed forces, this comprehensive book puts these essential questions into historical and analytical perspective. Buzan and Herring focus on four themes. In Part 1 they discuss the ways in which the political and military    More >

The Arms Dynamic in World Politics

Security: A New Framework for Analysis

Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver, and Jaap de Wilde

Traditionalists in the field of security studies tend to restrict the subject to politico–military issues; while wideners want to extend it to the economic, societal, and environmental sectors. This book sets out a comprehensive statement of the new security studies, establishing the case for the broader agenda. The authors argue that security is a particular type of politics applicable to    More >

Security: A New Framework for Analysis

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2009

Center on International Cooperation

Unique in its breadth of coverage, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations—those launched by the UN, by regional organizations, by coalitions, and by individual nations—that is available. Features of the 2009 volume include:                      More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2009

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2006

Center on International Cooperation

The world now spends close to $5 billion annually on United Nations peace operations staffed by more than 80,000 military and civilian personnel, and commitments to comparable operations outside the UN command structure are on an even greater scale. The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations is the first comprehensive source of information on this crucial topic, designed for students, scholars,    More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2006

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2007

Center on International Cooperation

Unique in its breadth and depth of coverage, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations—those launched by the UN, by regional organizations, by coalitions, and by individual nations—that is available. Features of the 2007 volume include:   an introductory essay on the priorities and processes crucial to    More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2007

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2008

Center on International Cooperation

Unique in its breadth of coverage, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations—those launched by the UN, by regional organizations, by coalitions, and by individual nations—that is available. Features of the 2008 volume include: a summary analysis of the trends and developments in peace operations through 2007 a    More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2008

US Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity

Dean P. Chen

Why did the Truman administration reject a pragmatic approach to the Taiwan Strait conflict—recognizing Beijing and severing ties with Taipei—and instead choose the path of strategic ambiguity? Dean Chen sheds light on current US policy by exploring the thoughts and deliberations of President Truman and his top advisers, among them Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Livingston Merchant,    More >

US Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity

War Crimes: Confronting Atrocity in the Modern World

David Chuter

War crimes typically are discussed in sensational terms or in the dry language of international law. In contrast, David Chuter brings clarity to this complex subject, exploring why atrocities occur and what can be done to identify perpetrators and bring them to justice. Chuter confronts the real horror of the murder, rape, and torture that are subsumed under the dispassionate phrase "serious    More >

War Crimes: Confronting Atrocity in the Modern World

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2010

Center on International Cooperation

Unique in its breadth of coverage, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations—those launched by the UN, by regional organizations, by coalitions, and by individual nations—that is available. Features of the 2010 volume include:                      More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2010

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2013

Center on International Cooperation

The 2013 Annual Review of Global Peace Operations provides comprehensive information on all current military and—for the first time—civilian peace operations, more than 130 missions, launched by the United Nations, by regional organizations, and by coalitions. Unique in its breadth of coverage, it presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations available. Features    More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2013

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2011

Center on International Cooperation

Unique in its breadth of coverage, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations—those launched by the UN, by regional organizations, by coalitions, and by individual nations—that is available. Features of the 2011 volume include: • a thematic focus on current operations in periods of transition • a summary    More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2011

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2012

Center on International Cooperation

Unique in its breadth of coverage, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations—those launched by the UN, by regional organizations, and by coalitions—that is available. Features of the 2012 volume include: • a thematic focus on the role of peace operations in the extension of state authority • a summary    More >

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2012

War Games: US-Russian Relations and Nuclear Arms Control

Stephen J. Cimbala

Does it make sense for the United States to cooperate with Russia to resolve international security issues? Is it possible for the two countries to work together to reduce the dangers associated with nuclear weapons? Where does Vladimir Putin fit into the calculus? Engaging the debate on these contentious issues, Stephen Cimbala provides context for and policy-relevant analysis of current    More >

War Games:  US-Russian Relations and Nuclear Arms Control

Getting Nuclear Weapons Right: Managing Danger and Avoiding Disaster

Stephen J. Cimbala

Can we avoid nuclear war? Why are we more at risk today than at the end of the Cold War? Can the world powers work together to ensure international stability? Stephen Cimbala provides a comprehensive assessment of these complex issues, ranging from the prospects for nuclear abolition, to the management of nuclear crises, to the imperative need for nuclear arms control worldwide.    More >

Getting Nuclear Weapons Right: Managing Danger and Avoiding Disaster

The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu, and the Bomb

Yoel Cohen

In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at Israel's highly secret nuclear arms research center at Dimona, disclosed highly classified details about Israel's nuclear arms program to the London Sunday Times. As a result, Vanunu was kidnapped from London and taken back to Israel where, after a closed- door trial, he was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment for espionage and    More >

The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu, and the Bomb

Waging War Without Warriors? The Changing Culture of Military Conflict

Christopher Coker

In the past, posits Christopher Coker, wars were all-encompassing; they were a test not only of individual bravery, but of an entire community's will to survive. In the West today, in contrast, wars are tools of foreign policy, not intrinsic to the values of a society—they are instrumental rather than existential. The clash between these two "cultures of war" can be seen    More >

Waging War Without Warriors? The Changing Culture of Military Conflict

African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms

Katharina P. Coleman and Thomas K. Tieku, editors

What impact have African actors had on perceptions of and responses to current international security challenges? Are there international peace and security norms with African roots? How can actors that lack the power and financial resources of Western states help to shape prevailing conceptions of appropriate behavior in international politics? Addressing these questions, the authors of    More >

African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms

Waging War with Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages

Charles A. Dainoff, Robert M. Farley, and Geoffrey F. Williams

"The sinews of war," posited Cicero, "are infinite money." Can the same be said of security? Tackling this thought-provoking question, the authors of Waging War with Gold show how states across the centuries have weaponized the global finance domain—a constellation of economic, legal, and monetary relations—in order to exert influence and pursue national interests.    More >

Waging War with Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages

Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century

Jessica Davis

Terrorists need money ... to recruit and train people, to buy weapons, to maintain safe houses, to carry out attacks. Which raises the question: how do they procure and protect funds to finance their operations? In Illicit Money, Jessica Davis thoroughly answers that question. Davis explores the full spectrum of terrorist finance, drawing on extensive case studies to dissect how individuals,    More >

Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century

Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference

Bob de Graaff, editor

How are intelligence systems structured in countries across Asia and the Middle East—from Russia to India, from Turkey to China and Japan, from Kazakhstan to Saudi Arabia? In what ways did decolonization and the Cold War influence their organization? What is their mission, and to what extent do they come under public scrutiny? The authors of this comprehensive reference delve into these    More >

Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference

Guns and Butter: The Political Economy of International Security

Peter Dombrowski, editor

Reflecting the growing interest among scholars and practitioners in the relationship between security affairs and economics, this new volume explores the nature of that relationship in the first decade of the 21st century.   Among the issues addressed in the book are the impact of the events of September 11 and of the US response. The authors also consider whether the challenges of the    More >

Guns and Butter: The Political Economy of International Security

Iraq Disarmed: The Story Behind the Story of the Fall of Saddam

Rolf Ekéus

"The quest to disarm Iraq took place between two wars—one justified and right, the other a dreadful mistake, a violation of international law that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths."  With these unvarnished words, Rolf Ekéus begins his political-thrilleresque story of the disarmament of Iraq—and the machinations that ultimately led to the fall of Saddam    More >

Iraq Disarmed: The Story Behind the Story of the Fall of Saddam

The Sources of Military Change: Culture, Politics, Technology

Theo Farrell and Terry Terriff, editors

In varying circumstances, military organizations around the world are undergoing major restructuring. This book explores why, and how, militaries change. The authors focus on a complex of three influencing factors—cultural norms, politics, and new technology—offering a historical perspective of more than a century. Their analyses range from developing states to Russia, Britain, the    More >

The Sources of Military Change: Culture, Politics, Technology

The Norms of War: Cultural Beliefs and Modern Conflict

Theo Farrell

Although the horrors of war are manifest, academic debate is dominated by accounts that reinforce the concept of warfare as a rational project. Seeking to explain this paradox—to uncover the motivations at the core of warring communities—Theo Farrell explores the cultural forces that have shaped modern Western conflict.   Farrell finds that the norms of war—shared beliefs    More >

The Norms of War: Cultural Beliefs and Modern Conflict

The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences

Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnebusch, editors

While the war in Afghanistan saw most industrial countries back the US-led campaign, the subsequent war in Iraq profoundly divided international opinion—and likely represents a watershed in the post-Cold War international order. The Iraq War examines the full range of explanations of the conflict, as well as its significance for the Middle East, for key international relationships, and for    More >

The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences

Security Cooperation in Africa: A Reappraisal

Benedikt Franke

In the midst of the atrocities reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the seemingly constant strife in the Horn of Africa, and the ongoing violence in Darfur, how do we make sense of the simultaneous increase in interstate security cooperation in Africa? To what extent, and why, does this cooperation differ from previous initiatives? In what direction is it heading? Benedikt Franke assesses    More >

Security Cooperation in Africa: A Reappraisal

Nontraditional Security Challenges in Southeast Asia: The Transnational Dimension

Amy L. Freedman and Ann Marie Murphy

With the countries of Southeast Asia increasingly challenged by a plethora of nontraditional security issues—climate change, food and water security, infectious diseases, and migration key among them—a number of important questions have emerged: What national and regional efforts are being made to address these issues? Why have some approaches proven more successful than others? How do    More >

Nontraditional Security Challenges in Southeast Asia: The Transnational Dimension

Info Ops: From World War I to the Twitter Era

Ofer Fridman, Vitaly Kabernik, and Francesca Granelli, editors

Since antiquity, information has been used in conflict—to deceive, to demoralize, to sow fear among enemy troops. Not until the twentieth century, though, did information operations become so central to war. In Info Ops, the authors assess the evolving role and increasing relevance of information operations from the leaflet bombardments of World War I to the present digital age.    More >

Info Ops: From World War I to the Twitter Era

Hybrid Conflicts and Information Warfare: New Labels, Old Politics

Ofer Fridman, Vitaly Kabernik, James C. Pearce, editors

What is hybrid warfare?  And what role does information play in today's conflicts? In the context of the technological/information revolution of the last two decades—which has greatly amplified the danger posed by nonmilitary means of political struggle—Hybrid Conflicts and Information Warfare addresses these questions from the perspectives of both Western and Russian    More >

Hybrid Conflicts and Information Warfare: New Labels, Old Politics

Europe's New Security Challenges

Heinz Gärtner, Adrian Hyde-Price, and Erich Reiter, editors

A central point of controversy among both academics and policymakers is the nature and significance of security in the post–Cold War world. Engaging that discussion, this original collection explores the new security challenges facing Europe. The authors assess the relevance and usefulness of various actors and various approaches for tackling those security challenges. Seeking to avoid    More >

Europe's New Security Challenges

Ethical Espionage: Ethics and the Intelligence Cycle

Jan Goldman

Can spying ever be ethical? What role do ethics play in intelligence missions shrouded in secrecy? Can the end justify the means? Jan Goldman confronts these thorny questions as he charts the pitfalls and tensions inherent in each step of the intelligence cycle—from planning and collection to analysis and dissemination. Illustrated with numerous scenarios and case studies, this    More >

Ethical Espionage: Ethics and the Intelligence Cycle

Military Reform and Militarism in Russia

Aleksandr Golts, translated by Maia Kipp

Aleksandr Golts traces the evolution of the Russian military, from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the incursions in eastern Ukraine in 2014–2017. Golts also sheds light on the reemergence of militarism in the Putin era, exploring its origins and making sense of the acceptance of the phenomenon by so much of Russian society.    More >

Military Reform and Militarism in Russia

Seeking Security and Development: The Impact of Military Spending and ArmsTransfers

Norman A. Graham, editor

Do military expenditures retard economic growth and development, enhance the development process, or neither? How effective are military and military-dominated regimes in promoting economic development? What is the impact of military expenditures and arms acquisitions on conflict patterns? Exploring the causal links between military expenditures and economic development in the Third World, the    More >

Seeking Security and Development: The Impact of Military Spending and ArmsTransfers

Nixon’s FBI: Hoover, Watergate, and a Bureau in Crisis

Melissa Graves

Polly Corrigan Book Prize Finalist! In 1974, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace. In 2020, Donald Trump was impeached. Both were investigated by the FBI, an agency under their control. How is it that the bureau is responsible for investigating the president it serves? How can it do so effectively? Nixon's FBI confronts these questions. Melissa Graves draws on groundbreaking research and    More >

Nixon’s FBI: Hoover, Watergate, and a Bureau in Crisis

The Second Nuclear Age

Colin S. Gray

Colin Gray returns nuclear weapons to the center stage of international politics. Taking issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control, and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Gray argues that the risk posed by WMD is ever more serious. Policy that ignores the present nuclear age, he cautions, is policy that    More >

The Second Nuclear Age

When Religion Kills: How Extremists Justify Violence Through Faith

Phil Gurski

Christian fundamentalists. Hindu nationalists. Islamic jihadists. Buddhist militants. Jewish extremists. Members of these and other religious groups have committed horrific acts of terrorist violence in recent decades. How is this possible? How do individuals use their religious beliefs to justify such actions? How do they manipulate the language and symbols of their faith to motivate others to    More >

When Religion Kills: How Extremists Justify Violence Through Faith

Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I

James H. Hallas, editor

This multi-layered history of World War I’s doughboys recapitulates the enthusiasm of scores of soldiers as they trained for war, voyaged to France, and finally, faced the harsh reality of combat on the Western Front. Drawing on journals, diaries, personal narratives, and unit histories, Hallas relates the story of men in combat—the men behind the rifles. He has crafted a vivid    More >

Doughboy War:  The American Expeditionary Force in World War I

The US Navy and the National Security Establishment: A Critical Assessment

John T. Hanley, Jr.

The US Navy is the most formidable naval force in the world—yet, it seems ill-suited to face today's challenges, especially the rise of China's maritime power. What explains this paradox? Looking for answers, John Hanley explores how the navy has negotiated its place in the broad national security establishment, especially in the decades since World War II. Hanley is particularly    More >

The US Navy and the National Security Establishment: A Critical Assessment

Democracy and War: The End of an Illusion?

Errol A. Henderson

Errol Henderson critically examines what has been called the closest thing to an empirical law in world politics, the concept of the democratic peace.   Henderson tests two versions of the democratic peace proposition (DPP)—that democracies rarely if ever fight one another, and that democracies are more peaceful in general than nondemocracies—using exactly the same data and    More >

Democracy and War: The End of an Illusion?

China’s Strategy in the Gulf: Navigating Conflicts and Rivalries

Benjamin Houghton

China's foreign and security policy in the Gulf region has been characterized by the cultivation of strong positive relationships with all of the Gulf states, irrespective of their domestic politics and the ubiquitous rivalries between neighbors. Has this "hedging strategy" proven fruitful? Or has it had negative consequences? Addressing this issue, Benjamin Houghton explores the    More >

China’s Strategy in the Gulf: Navigating Conflicts and Rivalries

Black Sea Battleground: The Road to Ukraine

Glen E. Howard, editor

Black Sea Battleground identifies and analyzes the key elements of a comprehensive US strategy for dealing with the cauldron of geopolitical and military competition in the Black Sea region.    More >

Black Sea Battleground: The Road to Ukraine

The Growing Importance of Belarus on NATO’s Eastern Flank

Glen E. Howard and Matthew Czekaj, editors

The widely misunderstood country of Belarus, squeezed both literally and geopolitically between Russia and the West, was typically overlooked by post–Cold War military planners—until Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Now, with Russia's latest offensive in Ukraine, Belarus's geostrategic importance to NATO and the surrounding region is more in the spotlight than    More >

The Growing Importance of Belarus on NATO’s Eastern Flank

Russia’s Military Strategy and Doctrine

Glen E. Howard and Matthew Czekaj, editors

How does Russia fight wars? How are its experiences with modern conflicts shaping the evolution of its military strategy, capabilities, and doctrine? Addressing these questions, the contributors to Russia's Military Strategy and Doctrine consider strategic-level issues ranging from hybrid warfare, to the role of nuclear weapons, to cyber and electromagnetic warfare, to Moscow's posture in    More >

Russia’s Military Strategy and Doctrine

The Irrational Terrorist and Other Persistent Terrorism Myths

Darren Hudson, Arie Perliger, Riley Post, and Zachary Hohman

Opinion surveys show that what the public assumes it knows about terrorism is at best a badly distorted view. Recalling the "Flat Earth" phenomenon, early misconceptions have become solidified, despite new evidence refuting them. The authors of The Irrational Terrorist discredit these popular myths and misconceptions, providing an accessible overview of the realities of terrorism and    More >

The Irrational Terrorist and Other Persistent Terrorism Myths

The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries

Amira Jadoon with Andrew Mines

The deadly attack on Kabul's airport in August 2021 shocked the world and brought concentrated attention to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISK). New questions quickly arose: How did this ISIS affiliate become such a force in Afghanistan and Pakistan? And why is it now a lethal threat to the Taliban? Addressing these questions, Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines draw on original data and newly    More >

The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries

Transforming Defense Capabilities: New Approaches for International Security

Scott Jasper, editor

In the face of today's security challenges, there is widespread recognition of the need to think and act in new ways to ensure both national and collective security interests. Transforming Defense Capabilities succinctly describes what transformation means in this context, why it is essential, and how to translate innovative concepts into relevant, feasible, and useful practice. The authors    More >

Transforming Defense Capabilities: New Approaches for International Security

The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States

Brian L. Job, editor

Positing an "insecurity dilemma," in which national security, defined as regime security by state authorities, becomes pitted against the incompatible demands of ethnic, social, and religious forces, this book addresses the problems and prospects for security in the Third World in the 1990s. The authors advance four lines of argument: First, there is a need to rethink the traditional    More >

The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States

Prohibiting Chemical and Biological Weapons: Multilateral Regimes and Their Evolution

Alexander Kelle

Whether in the arsenals of states or of terrorist groups, chemical and biological weapons (CBW) are increasingly seen as one of the major threats to global security. Alexander Kelle provides a comprehensive assessment of the multilateral prohibition regimes that have been established to confront the risks posed by CBW in the context of rapid scientific and technological advances.    More >

Prohibiting Chemical and Biological Weapons: Multilateral Regimes and Their Evolution

Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation

Thomas Kent

Energizing the debate on how best to expose and deal with Russian propaganda and disinformation, Thomas Kent goes beyond suggesting simple defensive measures. Kent not only calls for more government and private aid to expose Russian operations, but also describes how new, aggressive messaging campaigns against Russian disinformation could be run, the ethical questions involved, and the pros and    More >

Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation

North American Regional Security: A Trilateral Framework?

Richard J. Kilroy, Jr., Abelardo Rodríguez Sumano, and Todd S. Hataley

Has the emergence of new transnational threats—terrorism, drug cartels, natural disasters—affected the dynamics of security relations among Canada, Mexico, and the United States? What is the likely future of these relations in a highly securitized world? Richard Kilroy, Abelardo Rodríguez Sumano, and Todd Hataley trace the evolution of security relations in North America from    More >

North American Regional Security: A Trilateral Framework?

Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East

Marcus D. King

Drought, lack of access, poor quality … water supplies are in jeopardy across Africa and the Middle East. These same areas are rife with conflicts involving Islamic extremist groups. Marcus King explores linkages between water stress and violent conflict by looking closely at how ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al-Shabaab in Somalia have weaponized water in the pursuit of    More >

Weaponizing Water: Water Stress and Islamic Extremist Violence in Africa and the Middle East

The Morality of War: A Reader

David Kinsella and Craig L. Carr, editors

When and why is war justified? How, morally speaking, should wars be fought? The Morality of War confronts these challenging questions, surveying the fundamental principles and themes of the just war tradition through the words of the philosophers, jurists, and warriors who have shaped it. The collection begins with the foundational works of just war theory, as well as those of two competing    More >

The Morality of War: A Reader

The Lone Wolves’ Legion: Terrorism, Colonialism, and Capital

Peter Knoope

The threat of terrorism has increased significantly in recent years, in every region, with the number of victims of terrorist attacks also increasing. Are we indeed under siege, as many political leaders would have us believe? Addressing this question, Peter Knoope draws on a broad range of cultures and traditions—and on a lifetime of experience—to present a deeply personal    More >

The Lone Wolves’ Legion: Terrorism, Colonialism, and Capital

Mobilizing Force: Linking Security Threats, Militarization, and Civilian Control

David Kuehn and Yagil Levy, editors

What leads a democratic government to use military force to counter a domestic or external threat? How does it legitimize this mobilization to its citizenry? And what is the significance for civilian control of the military? The authors of Mobilizing Force draw on case studies from around the world to systematically examine these critical questions, exploring the interrelationships among    More >

Mobilizing Force: Linking Security Threats, Militarization, and Civilian Control

Arms Control and Cooperative Security

Jeffrey A. Larsen and James J. Wirtz, editors

Reflecting the ongoing debate about the value of traditional arms control in today’s security environment, Arms Control and Cooperative Security thoroughly covers this complex topic. The authors critically review the historical record, highlight recent changes in the security arena, and consider the likelihood of new arms control agreements. Throughout, the discussion is presented in the    More >

Arms Control and Cooperative Security

Arms Control: Cooperative Security in a Changing Environment

Jeffrey A. Larsen, editor

More than a decade after the end of the Cold War, the need to control the spread of arms remains clear, while the usefulness of traditional paradigms is increasingly called into question. The authors of Arms Control thoroughly review this complex topic, exploring differing approaches to arms control, successes and failures thus far, and the likelihood of future agreements. Ranging from the U.S.    More >

Arms Control: Cooperative Security in a Changing Environment

Arms Control at a Crossroads: Renewal or Demise?

Jeffrey A. Larsen and Shane Smith, editors

Is there a role for traditional arms control in today’s increasingly complex security environment? What new concepts and mechanisms are needed to make it valuable as a tool for managing competition and conflict amid the rise of new strategic domains and the spread of new technologies and weapons? Addressing these critical questions, the authors of Arms Control at a Crossroads review the    More >

Arms Control at a Crossroads: Renewal or Demise?

AI and Early Warning Systems: Technology Innovation for National Security

Robert Mandel

From the September 11 attacks to the coronavirus pandemic, recent deficiencies in early warning systems have been jolting, reflecting startling failures of intelligence and security decisionmaking. Can technological innovation remedy the flaws in threat detection? If so, how? Robert Mandel argues that the answer lies in a hybrid system—"human-in-the-loop" artificial    More >

AI and Early Warning Systems: Technology Innovation for National Security

Security, Strategy and the Quest for Bloodless War

Robert Mandel

In recent decades, government and military officials alike have pushed increasingly in the direction of "bloodless wars," where confrontations are undertaken—and ultimately won—with minimum loss of human life. Robert Mandel provides the first comprehensive analysis of this trend.   After exploring the moral, legal, military, and political bases of the desire to    More >

Security, Strategy and the Quest for Bloodless War

Armies Without States: The Privatization of Security

Robert Mandel

What does the increasing use of private security forces mean for governments? For individuals? Armies Without States offers a comprehensive analysis of the varieties, causes, and consequences of this growing phenomenon.   Ranging from the international to the subnational level and from the use of mercenaries by private parties to the government outsourcing of military operations, Mandel    More >

Armies Without States: The Privatization of Security

The Meaning of Military Victory

Robert Mandel

How has the concept of victory evolved as the nature of conflict itself has changed across time, circumstance, and culture? And to what end? Robert Mandel addresses these questions, consider¬ing the meanings, misperceptions, and challenges associated with military victory in the context of the nontraditional wars of recent decades.   Without an understanding of precisely what victory    More >

The Meaning of Military Victory

Special Operations: Out of the Shadows

Christopher Marsh, James D. Kiras, and Patricia J. Blocksome, editors

Why have special operations forces become a key strategic tool in the conduct of modern warfare? How do these specially trained and equipped elite units function? What types of missions do they conduct?  Special Operations: Out of the Shadows addresses these questions and more in a comprehensive survey of special ops, encompassing cutting-edge research, current debates, and critical case    More >

Special Operations: Out of the Shadows

The Conduct of Intelligence in Democracies: Processes, Practices, Cultures

Florina Cristiana Matei and Carolyn Halladay, editors

What are the role and place of secret services and covert operations in democratic settings? How do states balance the need for both secrecy and openness? What are the challenges to creating effective intelligence practices? Focusing on these crucial questions, the authors of The Conduct of Intelligence in Democracies examine the purposes and processes of intelligence communities in today's    More >

The Conduct of Intelligence in Democracies: Processes, Practices, Cultures

Old and New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War

Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha

War is changing. The cybersphere, civil society, outer space ... all are emerging as domains in which battles are fought. What drives this shift? How is it affecting the character and conduct of war? What are the implications for military strategy? As they address these fundamental questions, Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha show how today's civil society, technology, and military    More >

Old and New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War

Enlarging NATO: The National Debates

Gale A. Mattox and Arthur R. Rachwald, editors

Thoroughly examining the deliberations over NATO enlargement in twelve countries—five current members of the alliance; three invited to join in the first round of enlargement; two seeking membership; and Russia and Ukraine, both involved with nato, but unlikely to join—the authors shed light on the political motives leading to each country's position. Their comparative analysis    More >

Enlarging NATO: The National Debates

US Missile Defense Strategy: Engaging the Debate

Michael Mayer

Why has the United States continued to develop ballistic missile defenses in an era of irregular warfare and asymmetric terrorist threats? How does missile defense contribute to US global strategy? Can the BMD system achieve the goals that lay behind its creation? Michael Mayer addresses these questions in his balanced approach to the contentious debate over the strategic value of missile    More >

US Missile Defense Strategy: Engaging the Debate

Russia’s Path to the High-Tech Battlespace

Roger N. McDermott

Roger McDermott traces the origins and trajectory of Moscow's modernization of its armed forces to exploit technology and adopt new approaches to warfare. Drawing extensively on primary sources, McDermott explores the role of Russian military thought in the modernization process, changes in military decisionmaking, developments stemming from Russian military operations in Syria, and other    More >

Russia’s Path to the High-Tech Battlespace

Spectator-Sport War: The West and Contemporary Conflict

Colin McInnes

Following a century dominated by global conflict—and despite the unchanging nature of the human suffering it causes—the nature of war itself, argues Colin McInnes, has been transformed for the West. Spectator-Sport War considers the key developments that have led to this metamorphosis, ranging from new geopolitical relationships to new technological advances. McInnes shows that,    More >

Spectator-Sport War: The West and Contemporary Conflict

EU Security Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters

Michael Merlingen

What is the European Union's security and defense policy (CSDP)? How does it work? Does it make a difference in international security affairs? How do other global actors react to Europe’s new assertiveness? And how do theories of international relations account for the trajectory of EU integration in the high politics of national security? In this comprehensive survey and analysis,    More >

EU Security Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters

Common Security and Nonoffensive Defense: A Neorealist Perspective

Bjorn

Bjorn Møller explores the implications of switching to a new type of defense structure, nonoffensive defense (NOD), that would maintain an undiminished—or even improved—capability for defense while possessing no offensive capabilities. The advantages of such a switch, he posits, would be enhanced possibilities for arms control and disarmament, increased crisis stability, and the    More >

Common Security and Nonoffensive Defense: A Neorealist Perspective

Terrorism, Security, and Human Rights: Harnessing the Rule of Law

Mahmood Monshipouri

Scholars and policymakers disagree on the most effective way to counter transnational terrorism, generating debate on a range of questions: Do military interventions increase or decrease the recruitment capability of transnational terrorists? Should we privilege diplomacy over military force in the campaign against terror? Can counterterrorist measures be applied without violating human rights?    More >

Terrorism, Security, and Human Rights: Harnessing the Rule of Law

The Problem of Force: Grappling with the Global Battlefield

Simon W. Murden

Why, despite indisputably superior military might, have the US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq been so fraught with setbacks? Does it make sense in today’s security environment to use military force to achieve strategic objectives? How does the contemporary battlefield function? Addressing these questions, Simon Murden explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to    More >

The Problem of Force:  Grappling with the Global Battlefield

The Weapons State: Proliferation and the Framing of Security

David Mutimer

The proliferation of all kinds of weapons (nuclear, chemical, biological, and even conventional) is emerging as a focal point for international security. This book shows how both the language used to talk about weapons proliferation and the practices adopted to respond to it serve to define the problem in ways that promote policy responses doomed to failure. Examining the metaphors that have been    More >

The Weapons State: Proliferation and the Framing of Security

Baltic Security Strategy Report: What the Baltics Can Offer for a Stronger Alliance

Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns, editors

This in-depth security review of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania assesses current challenges pertaining to defense and deterrence, societal security and resilience, economic security, and cybersecurity. The authors also explore potential avenues for subregional cooperation, offering detailed recommendations on how best to proceed with a more coherent, goal-oriented, and efficient cooperation    More >

Baltic Security Strategy Report: What the Baltics Can Offer for a Stronger Alliance

Baltic Sea Security: Regional and Sectoral Perspectives

Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns, editors

Baltic Sea Security offers a multifaceted discussion of the complex security issues affecting the Baltic region—with important implications for the cohesion of the wider transatlantic alliance. Regional and international experts provide in-depth analysis of the current levels of defense and security cooperation among the Western countries in the Baltic basin, focusing on military    More >

Baltic Sea Security: Regional and Sectoral Perspectives

Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to China’s Presence in the Baltic Sea Region

Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns, editors

China's growing presence in the strategically important Nordic-Baltic region has implications not only for the region itself, but also for general transatlantic relations. Within that context, the authors of Between Brussels and Beijing present in-depth country studies that highlight current challenges and point to opportunities for improved regional and transatlantic security.    More >

Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to China’s Presence in the Baltic Sea Region

From Nuclear Weapons to Global Security: 75 Years of Research and Development at Sandia National Laboratories

Justin Quinn Olmstead and Leland Johnson

Sandia National Laboratories is one of the primary providers of the science, technology, and engineering capabilities needed to ensure both US and global security. Its mandate has moved far beyond its original weapons-centered mission—the development of nuclear weapons—and now encompasses complex economic, energy, environmental, and nonproliferation issues. From Nuclear Weapons to    More >

From Nuclear Weapons to Global Security: 75 Years of Research and Development at Sandia National Laboratories

Policing and Politics in Nigeria: A Comprehensive History

Akali Omeni

Close to the center of politics since the nineteenth century, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has grown to become the country’s main security agency. Akali Omeni traces the checkered record of the NPF, dissecting the intricacies of its evolution, structures, and missions—and showing how colonial- and military-era traditions continue to underpin its uneasy relationship with the general    More >

Policing and Politics in Nigeria: A Comprehensive History

The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development?

Jessica Piombo, editor

Recent US security policy toward Africa has adopted a multidimensional approach—including the use of military assets to promote economic development and good governance—that has raised questions and generated considerable debate. Can actors like the US military develop appropriate methods to address both US and African interests? What blend of civilian and military programs are most    More >

The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development?

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: A Comprehensive Introduction to Actors and Actions

Henry Prunckun and Troy Whitford

What is terrorism? How do terrorists operate—what are their means, targets, and motivations? How can governments prevent terrorist attacks from happening? Henry Prunckun and Troy Whitford address these questions in their systematic, comprehensive exploration of terrorism and counterterrorism. Notably, this authoritative text: • Explains complex issues in an objective, accessible    More >

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: A Comprehensive Introduction to Actors and Actions

Arms Control Without Negotiation: From the Cold War to the New World Order

Bennett Ramberg, editor

Beginning with Mikhail Gorbachev's December 1988 announcement that Moscow intended to unilaterally reduce its conventional armed forces, the spotlight on arms control has turned away from negotiated treaties toward unilateral reductions, and there have been a number of reciprocal reductions not subject to negotiation. While these initiatives appear novel, this book demonstrates that they are    More >

Arms Control Without Negotiation: From the Cold War to the New World Order

The Political Life of Mary Kaldor: Ideas and Action in International Relations

Melinda Rankin

Although more than a little controversial, Mary Kaldor's academic work and ideas have both stimulated and influenced debate in the Pentagon, the United Nations, the European Union, NATO, and beyond. How did this come about? And how did Kaldor reach the conclusions outlined in her seminal books? Melinda Rankin traces the evolution of Kaldor's work, revealing how her thinking developed    More >

The Political Life of Mary Kaldor: Ideas and Action in International Relations

Female Militants in South Asia: Fighters and Facilitators

Ayesha Ray

Though often portrayed as lacking agency, women in South Asia, in considerable numbers, participate actively in the insurgencies that plague the region—taking up arms alongside men or facilitating recruitment and operations. What compels them to do so? And what roles do they play? Ayesha Ray answers these question by exploring women’s involvement in violent revolutionary and Islamist    More >

Female Militants in South Asia: Fighters and Facilitators

Counterintelligence Analysis at Its Core: Assessing and Preventing Foreign Espionage

Kevin P. Riehle

What is the core purpose of counterintelligence? What does it involve? To answer these questions, Kevin Riehle explains in detail how counterintelligence analysis supports the mission of thwarting adversaries—how a foreign entity's intelligence cycle can be exploited, disrupted, or manipulated—in order to gain decision advantage. Case studies of operations involving the Soviet    More >

Counterintelligence Analysis at Its Core: Assessing and Preventing Foreign Espionage

Warfare in the Robotics Age

Ash Rossiter and Peter Layton

From artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles to human augmentation … robots are increasingly being used by the military. For what operational purposes? How will this reshape the conduct of war? What are the strategies and capabilities being developed by China, Russia, the US, and other nations, and with what impact on international relations? To address these complex questions,    More >

Warfare  in the Robotics Age

Rebuilding Arab Defense: US Security Cooperation in the Middle East

Bilal Y. Saab

After decades of US military assistance in the Middle East—providing expensive weapons systems and conducting military exercises—why are the military capabilities of US allies in the region still lacking? Why does it matter? And what can be done to remedy the status quo? Bilal Saab addresses these vexing questions through a set of in-depth case studies. Identifying the pitfalls of    More >

Rebuilding Arab Defense: US Security Cooperation in the Middle East

US-China Nuclear Relations: The Impact of Strategic Triangles

David Santoro, editor

Though China remains a relatively weak nuclear power, it has in recent years become central to US strategic policymaking. What explains this shift? How is the US-China strategic nuclear relationship evolving? What role do other states play in shaping it?   To address these questions, the authors of US-China Nuclear Relations examine a series of strategic triangles involving China, the US,    More >

US-China Nuclear Relations: The Impact of Strategic Triangles

NATO and the Middle East: In Search of a Strategy

Rolf Schwarz

Over the course of more than seven decades, NATO has sought, but not settled on, an effective strategy for interacting with its neighbors in the Middle East and North Africa. Rolf Schwarz traces the evolution of NATO's engagement with its neighboring region—including the launching of the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative—and assesses its potential for    More >

NATO and the Middle East: In Search of a Strategy

International Security: An Analytical Survey

Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan provides a masterly survey of the varied positions that scholars have adopted in interpreting "security"—one of the most contested terms in international relations—and proposes a synthesis that both widens and deepens our understanding of the concept. Sheehan first outlines the classical realist approach of Morgenthau and Carr and the ideas of their    More >

International Security: An Analytical Survey

Hedging the China Threat: US-Taiwan Security Relations Since 1949

Shao-cheng Sun

The United States has never formally recognized Taiwan as a sovereign state, yet it has provided the country with security assistance since the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) government there in 1949. What accounts for this equivocal stance? And how is the US leveraging Taiwan against China? To unpack this complex triangular relationship, Shao-cheng Sun explores the history of US    More >

Hedging the China Threat: US-Taiwan Security Relations Since 1949

Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine: Security Strategies for the Nordic-Baltic Five

Otto Tabuns and Olevs Nikers

In the context of Russia's war against Ukraine, the authors present crucial strategies for improving security in five NATO eastern flank states: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden. They also offer recommendations for NATO countries overall with regard to defending against future Russian aggression.    More >

Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine: Security Strategies for the Nordic-Baltic Five

Security in South America: The Role of States and Regional Organizations

Rodrigo Tavares

What types of threats and conflicts affect the countries of South America? What roles can and should states and regional organizations play in maintaining both traditional and human security in the region? Ranging from armed conflicts, terrorism, and the arms trade to political crises, drug trafficking, and environmental concerns, Rodrigo Tavares provides a comprehensive discussion of the issues    More >

Security in South America: The Role of States and Regional Organizations

The FBI Abroad: Bridging the Gap Between Domestic and Foreign Intelligence

Darren E. Tromblay

How is it that the FBI, a domestic intelligence agency, operates beyond the US borders? What role does the bureau play in emerging democracies? In what ways does it contribute to US diplomacy and global security? Darren Tromblay tackles these intriguing questions to assess the FBI's presence abroad, revealing the inextricable nature of domestic and foreign intelligence activities.    More >

The FBI Abroad: Bridging the Gap Between Domestic and Foreign Intelligence

Securing the Private Sector: Protecting US Industry in Pursuit of National Security

Darren E. Tromblay

As a provider of vital infrastructure and technology, the private sector has become an essential contributor to US national security—and the target of hackers and terrorists. Darren Tromblay traces the evolution of an often fraught public-private partnership to explore how the complex web of intelligence agencies has struggled to protect critical economic and industrial interests.    More >

Securing the Private Sector: Protecting US Industry in Pursuit of National Security

Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11

Darren E. Tromblay

Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose? What have been the results of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and a reorganized FBI? Have they helped to reduce blind spots and redundancies in resources and responsibilities ... and to    More >

Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11

Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban Warfare

Louise A. Tumchewics, editor

"Avoid cities or die within" has been the prevailing attitude in the military when it comes to waging war in urban areas. So why do armies continue to fight there? What tactical advantages do they seek? What pitfalls do they face, and how can they achieve success? The authors of Small Armies, Big Cities tackle these strategic questions, drawing on a range of cases to explore how    More >

Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban Warfare

Cyber Intelligence: Actors, Policies, and Practices

Constance S. Uthoff

US national security compromised by Wikileaks. Towns held hostage by ransomware. Corporate websites hacked. Cyber espionage and cybercrimes are increasing in both frequency and sophistication—requiring the collection of actionable intelligence in order to combat them. Constance Uthoff provides a comprehensive overview of cyber intelligence, explaining what it is, why it is needed, who is    More >

Cyber Intelligence: Actors, Policies, and Practices

Ending the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest

Frank N. von Hippel

Frank N. von Hippel shares his remarkable journey as a key figure in the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, illuminating the far-reaching consequences of nuclear accidents and the devastating impact of "limited" nuclear war. Speaking out about the dangers of nuclear power, leading the opposition against nuclear breeder reactors, meeting with Soviet leaders and colleagues    More >

Ending the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest

Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat

Andreas Wenger and Reto Wollenmann, editors

Especially since the anthrax attacks of 2001, the issue of bioterrorism has been controversial: Are governments underestimating the potential hazard of biological toxins, as some claim, or is the danger in fact exaggerated? What are the policy options for dealing with such a complex threat? The authors of this book offer a reasoned assessment of the issues at the core of the    More >

Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat

Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis

Sandra Whitworth

Sandra Whitworth looks behind the rhetoric to investigate from a feminist perspective some of the realities of military intervention under the UN flag. Whitworth contends that there is a fundamental contradiction between portrayals of peacekeeping as altruistic and benign and the militarized masculinity that underpins the group identity of soldiers. Examining evidence from Cambodia and Somalia,    More >

Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis

Security in Asia Pacific: The Dynamics of Alignment

Thomas S. Wilkins

The complex security dynamics of the pivotal Asia Pacific region, involving disparate and contentious power blocs, clearly have implications far beyond the region itself. Thomas Wilkins sheds new light on those dynamics, providing a rich framework for better understanding the nature of security alignments in Asia Pacific, as well as a reexamination of the dominant forces at play: the US alliance    More >

Security in Asia Pacific: The Dynamics of Alignment

US National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 6th ed.

John Allen Williams, Stephen J. Cimbala, and Sam C. Sarkesian

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! The main focus of US national security policy has shifted dramatically since the years of the Obama administration, moving away from nation building and counterinsurgency efforts and toward preparing for traditional state-on-state conflict with powerful peers. The sixth edition of US National Security reflects that change. It also addresses such current issues    More >

US National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 6th ed.

Strategic Thinking: An Introduction and Farewell

Philip Windsor, edited by Mats Berdal and Spyros Economides

In this, his final book, Philip Windsor explores the emergence, meaning, and significance of the Cold War mentality. Tracing the evolution of strategic thinking from its origins in medieval Europe to the demise of the Cold War, he considers the peculiar character and autonomy that strategy acquired in the nuclear age. Windsor is concerned with changes in our understanding of war and    More >

Strategic Thinking: An Introduction and Farewell

Unmasking Boko Haram: Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria

Jacob Zenn

The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 drew the world's attention to the previously little-known extremist group Boko Haram. Numerous questions followed, among them: Where did Boko Haram come from? What explains the rise of this militant Islamic group and its increasingly violent actions? What is its relationship to the Islamic State? Jacob Zenn    More >

Unmasking Boko Haram: Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria

Biological Warfare: Modern Offense and Defense

Raymond A. Zilinskas, editor

Recent revelations about Iraqi and Soviet/Russian biological weapons programs and highly publicized events such as the deployment of anthrax and botulinum by the Aum Shinrikyo sect in Japan have made clear the necessity for addressing the issues of biological warfare and defense. In a comprehensive analysis of this imminent threat to global security, fourteen internationally recognized authorities    More >

Biological Warfare: Modern Offense and Defense

Biosecurity in Putin’s Russia

Raymond A. Zilinskas and Philippe Mauger

In March 2012, at a meeting convened by the recently reelected Russian president Vladimir Putin, Minister of Defense Serdyukov informed Mr. Putin that a plan was being prepared for "the development of weapons based on new physical principles: radiation, geophysical wave, genetic, psychophysical, etc." Subsequently, in response to concerns expressed both in Russia and abroad, the Russian    More >

Biosecurity in Putin’s Russia

How States Fight Terrorism: Policy Dynamics in the West

Doron Zimmermann and Andreas Wenger, editors

As national governments struggle to cope with the complex threat of mass-casualty terrorist attacks, there is an ongoing debate about the best approaches to counterterrorism policy. The authors of How States Fight Terrorism explore the dynamics of counterterrorism policy development in Europe and North America. A series of case studies examine security concerns, political debates and policy    More >

How States Fight Terrorism: Policy Dynamics in the West