Bøger i Routledge Global Security Studies serien

Offers an examination of America's nuclear weapons policy since the end of the Cold War. Exploring nuclear forces structure, arms control, regional planning and the weapons production complex, this volume identifies sets of ideas about nuclear weapons and domestic political constraints on major shifts in policy.

Argues that Network Centric Warfare (NCW) influences how developed militaries operate in the same fashion that an operating system influences the development of computer software. This book examines the military power of the US; the influence of NCW on military thinking; and, the centrality of coalition operations in modern military endeavours.

This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-cold war era (1991-2018).

This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-cold war era (1991-2018).

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book sheds light on the new power politics and argues that the changing structural aspects of the international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of state practice.

This volume assesses the challenges of eliminating highly enriched uranium from the world and exmaines the prospects of this material being used by terrorist groups in weapons.

This volume of essays provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward.

This volume of essays provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward.

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book sheds light on the new power politics and argues that the changing structural aspects of the international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of state practice.

This book offers critical perspectives on the pressing issue of global nuclear-weapons abolition ('The Global Zero') from some of the leading scholars and experts in the field.

This edited volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies.

This book offers critical perspectives on the pressing issue of global nuclear-weapons abolition ('The Global Zero') from some of the leading scholars and experts in the field.

This book tackles key contemporary European security issues from a variety of different theoretical standpoints, in an attempt to uncover the drivers of foreign policy and defence integration in the EU.

This edited volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies.

This volume examines the various mechanisms for regional pacification and conflict resolution by comparing the cases of Europe and the Middle East.

This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of the Cold War, focusing on military transformation.

This volume examines the various mechanisms for regional pacification and conflict resolution by comparing the cases of Europe and the Middle East.

Written by a group of leading experts, this book offers a historically informed and comprehensive study of the geopolitics and security challenges of the Arctic.

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis in International Relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

This volume assesses the challenges of eliminating highly enriched uranium from the world and exmaines the prospects of this material being used by terrorist groups in weapons.

Simply defined, threat inflation is the effort by elites to create concern for a threat that goes beyond the scope and urgency that disinterested analysis would justify, such as in the build up to the Iraq war and over Iran's nuclear ambitions since mid-2007. This work addresses threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics.

This edited volume analyses the impact of technology transfer regulations on the effectiveness of international efforts to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

This volume evaluates the impact of coercive arms control efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the twenty-first century.

This book examines the strategic implications of Iran's nuclear programme, providing an inventory of the negotiations and a discussion of possible solutions to this pressing international security issue.