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Book SynopsisSurvival, the IISSâs bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry argue that liberal internationalism is more appropriate to contemporary global realities than the Quincy-coalition restraint James Crabtree explains why the Westâs Build Back Better World partnership will be hard-pressed to compete with Chinaâs Belt and Road Initiative Joelien Pretorius and Tom Sauer contend that if states are serious about nuclear disarmament, they should ditch the NPT and join the Ban Treaty instead Sameer Lalwani and Tyler Sagerstrom analyse what the IndiaâRussia defence partnership means for US policy And eight more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.Editor: Dr Dana AllinMTrade Review‘In a world of complex security challenges the need for serious, thoughtful analysis is greater than ever. Survival’s combination of elegant writing and rigorous scholarship from the world’s top experts makes it essential reading for both practitioners and academics.’-- Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, War Studies King's College LondonTable of ContentsSurvival 63.4 (August–September 2021), pp. 1–236Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism, by Daniel Deudney and G. John IkenberryThe War on Terror Has Not Yet Failed: A Net Assessment After 20 Years, by Hal Brands and Michael O’HanlonTrump’s Russia Legacy and Biden’s Response, by Angela StentCompeting with the BRI: The West’s Uphill Task, by James CrabtreeEnabling US Security Cooperation, by Bilal Y. SaabNoteworthyDitch the NPT, by Joelien Pretorius and Tom SauerResponse: Keep the NPT, by Matthew HarriesManoeuvre Versus Attrition in US Military Operations, by Franz-Stefan GadyWhat the India–Russia Defence Partnership Means for US Policy, by Sameer Lalwani and Tyler SagerstromThe Iran Nuclear Deal and Sanctions Relief: Implications for US Policy, by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Mahsa RouhiThe US–Mexico Border: Asylum, Fear and Trump, by Russell CrandallBook ReviewsPolitics and International Relations, by Steven SimonAsia-Pacific, by Lanxin XiangRussia and Eurasia, by Angela StentAustralia’s ‘Drums of War’, by Greg Austin

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Book SynopsisThis book shows the contribution that empathy can and should make to the proper conduct of war. US Army doctrine identifies empathy as an essential trait in soldiers; despite this endorsement of senior leaders, empathy's role in the military profession remains obscure. The notion of soldiers empathetically considering others, especially enemies, strikes many as counter to the nature of soldiering. Additionally, confusion caused by differing definitions of empathy often leads to its complete dismissal. This work clarifies the concept by considering recent philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific research, and demonstrates the relevance of empathy to the tactical and strategic demands of war. Empathy amplifies soldiers' understanding of human actors in an operational environment, enables soldiers' critical and creative thinking, and improves their overall intentions, planning, and assessments of a war's progress. While empathy can make soldiers more susceptible

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Book SynopsisAt a time of great global uncertainty and instability, communities face fracturing from the increasing influence of extremist movements hostile to democratic and multicultural norms. Europe and the West have grown increasingly polarised in recent years, beset with financial crises, political instability, the rise of malicious actors and irregular violence, and new forms of media and social media. These factors have enabled the spread of new forms of extremism and suggest a growing need for a response sensitive to inequalities and divisions in wider society a task made even more urgent by the COVID- 19 pandemic.The Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience brings together research conducted throughout Europe and the world, to analyse various articulations of violent extremism and consider the impact that such groups and networks have had on the wellbeing of communities and societies. It examines different theories, factors, and national case studies of extTable of ContentsPart I: Core Issues on Violent Extremism and Resilience 1. Violent Extremism and Resilience in the 21st Century 2. Assessing our Understanding of (Violent) Extremism 3. Resilience to Violent Extremism at the Crossroads 4. European Trends in Polarisation and Resilience 5. Young People, Radicalisation, and Resilience 6. Online Extremism and Resilience Part II: Country Cases Western Europe 7. France 8. United Kingdom Northern Europe 9. The Netherlands 10. Norway Central and Eastern Europe 11. Germany 12. Hungary 13. Poland Southern Europe 14. Italy 15. Greece Australasia and North America 16. Australia 17. New Zealand 18. Canada 19. United States of America

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The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical questions surrounding the ethics of modern war, Helen Frowe presents contemporary just war theory in a stimulating and accessible way.This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with additional material covering belligerents' duties to refugees, the scope of jus ad bellum, indirect intervention and alternatives to intervention, and the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. The book also covers key topics, including: theories of self-defence and national defence jus ad bellum, jus in bello and jus post bellum the moral status of combatants humanitarian intervention weapons and technology the principle of non-combatant immunity the nature of terrorism and the moral status of terrorists.

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Book SynopsisDespite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War, a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge, this volume fills the gap in the market, including the work of both established and newly emerging scholars working on the First World War across the globe. The volume includes chapters that focus on the experience of belligerent and also neutral powers, thus providing a genuinely representative dimension to the subject.Table of ContentsList of illustrations List of contributors Foreword or series editor introduction Introduction: perspectives on communication and the study of the First World War 1 Writing a war of words: negotiating trench warfare in Andrew Clark’s ‘English Words in War-Time’ 2 British discourse, representations and conceptualisations of the Armenian genocide during the First World War 3 ‘Spreading fields of victory’?: the reporting of Gallipoli, Jutland and the Somme in The War Illustrated 4 Fake news or an education in war? Communicating war aims to the British public in its early phases: The Oxford Pamphlets 1914–1915 875 Desperately seeking the centre: critiques of U.S. propaganda posters during a ‘highbrow’ versus ‘lowbrow’ age 6 The future of Alsace: the French case to the Americans 7 Women’s war: engaging Canadian housewives in the food economy in 1914–1918 8 ‘Continuing the mission’: the First World War and the roots of Red Scare violence, 1919–1921 9 International propaganda in Spain during the First World War: state of the art and new contributions 10 Great expectations: the latency of the First World War in Republican Portugal, 1914–191611 The role of the Dundee press and public propaganda in shaping public opinion and home front support for the war effort in Scotland, 1914–1918 12 War-time and post-war medical communication: the role of the U.S. Army Medical Library Index

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Book SynopsisHumanitarians operate on the frontlines of today's armed conflicts, where they regularly negotiate to provide assistance and to protect vulnerable civilians. This book explores this unique and under-researched field of humanitarian negotiation. It details the challenges faced by humanitarians negotiating with armed groups in Yemen, Myanmar, and elsewhere, arguing that humanitarians typically negotiate from a position of weakness. It also explores some of the tactics and strategies they use to overcome this power asymmetry to reach more favorable agreements.The author applies these findings to broader negotiation scholarship and investigates the implications of this research for the field and practice of humanitarianism. This book also demonstrates how non-state actors both humanitarians and armed groups have become increasingly potent diplomatic actors. It challenges traditional state-centric approaches to diplomacy and argues that non-state actors constitute an increasinglTable of ContentsIntroduction: Negotiating on the Frontlines 1. The Negotiator’s Weak Hand 2. Yemen: The Houti Ascendance3. Myanmar: A Return to Arms in Kachinland 4. Overcoming Power Asymmetry 5. Advancing the Frontlines of Humanitarian Negotiation 6. Conclusion

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This textbook introduces the reader to the field of military sociology through narrative reviews of selected key studies in the discipline.The book provides a guided introduction. In each chapter, the authors set the stage and then immerse the reader in Spotlights that is, descriptions of essential studies that inform the discipline of military sociology. The goal is to afford readers a ready pathway into how sociologists and social scientists have thought about topics in the study of the military and war.Topics covered in the book include: What is military sociology? What does it have to offer in understanding armed forces, wars, and societies? What basic tools are needed to ply sociological, or more broadly, social science perspectives for studying war and the military? What are the bio-social bases of war? What does the spectrum of such societally organized violence look like? How do societie

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Book SynopsisThis 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 sociotechnical divide wherein technical and social scholarship are seldomly brought into a conversation. This is the first volume to address these themes through a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary approach. With the intent of exploring the question what is at stake with the use of automation in international conflict in cyberspace through AI?', the chapters in the volume focus on three broad themes, namely: (1) technical and operational, (2) strategic and geopolitical and (3) normative and legal. These also constitute the three parts in which the chapters of this volume are organised, Trade Review"An impressive and much-needed cross-disciplinary assessment of the adoption of AI-enabled cyber capabilities, Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace offers an expertly edited, nuanced, and ultimately cautionary view on the rising intersections of AI and cyberspace. The volume brings technical and social science scholarship together into conversations over the potential and perils of AI as an object and subject for cyber threats, as a strategic asset to be acquired (and threatened) by great and middling powers alike, and as a technology whose development demands ethical and legal boundaries even as those boundaries may shift via iterations in AI’s deployment by states and other stakeholders. Simply put, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the securitization of information technologies in the digital age" Duncan B. Hollis, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law, Temple University Law School, United States"AI is set to become a constitutional component of economic, political, and military power. But in what ways? This timely book provides us with the necessary cross-disciplinary expertise to understand what is at stake when AI mingles with cyber conflict and how the international community should react to reduce the risks of the AI transformation."Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Deputy for Research and Teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) and Senior Lecturer for Security Politics at ETH Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of Contents1. Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace: Exploring Three Sets of Issues Part I: Technical and Operational Challenges 2. The Unknowable Conflict: Tracing AI, Recognition, and the Death of the (Human) Loop 3. Artificial Intelligence in Hybrid and Information Warfare: A Double-Edged Sword Part II: Strategic and Geopolitical Challenges 4. Algorithmic Power? The Role of Artificial Intelligence in European Strategic Autonomy 5. The Middleware Dilemma of Middle Powers: AI-Enabled Services as Sites of Cyber Conflict In Brazil, India, and Singapore 6. Artificial Intelligence and Military Superiority: How the ‘Cyber-AI Offensive-Defensive Arms Race’ Affects the US Vision of the Fully Integrated Battlefield Part III: Normative and Legal Challenges 7. Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence in the Defence Domain 8. Is Stuxnet the Next Skynet? Autonomous Cyber Capabilities as Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 9. Advanced Artificial Intelligence Techniques and the Principle of Non-Intervention in the Context of Electoral Interference: A Challenge to the "Demanding" Element of Coercion?

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Book SynopsisSurvival, the IISSâs bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Robert DalsjÃ, Michael Jonsson and Johan Norberg reconsider Russiaâs military capability given its recent battlefield performance in Ukraine William Alberque and Benjamin Schreer argue that Finland and Swedenâs NATO membership would, if managed judiciously, bolster deterrence and European security Chuck Freilich contends that encouraging diplomacy is the best of Israelâs limited options for postponing Iranâs nuclear-weapons programme Nicolas Lippolis and Harry Verhoeven assess that if a wave of African defaults materialises in the near future, it will be catalysed more by private-sector manoeuvring and intransigence than by Chinese scheming Dana H. Allin and Erik Jones argue tTrade Review‘In a world of complex security challenges the need for serious, thoughtful analysis is greater than ever. Survival’s combination of elegant writing and rigorous scholarship from the world’s top experts makes it essential reading for both practitioners and academics.’ Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, War Studies King's College London Table of ContentsSurvival 64.3 (June–July 2022), pp. 1–222 A Brutal Examination: Russian Military Capability in Light of the Ukraine War In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges Strategic Unpredictability: Assessing the Doctrine from Nixon to Putin NATO Membership NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations UK Defence Policy After Ukraine: Revisiting the Integrated Review The State of NATO: An American View Noteworthy Israel and the Iran Nuclear Deal: The Best of Bad Options How the al-Qaeda–Taliban Alliance Survived Politics by Default: China and the Global Governance of African Debt Culture and War Book Reviews Europe Latin America Environment and Resources Sleepwalking to Solidarity? Russia, Ukraine and the European Dream

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Book SynopsisSurvival, the IISSâs bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Alexander K. Bollfrass and Stephen Herzog argue that despite facing major challenges, the global nuclear order remains resilient Maria Shagina assesses Russiaâs status as an energy superpower, concluding that it has a bleak future in the long term Erik Jones argues that the war in Ukraine has disrupted the European Central Bankâs ability to operate by consensus Jeffrey E. Kline, James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz contend that the US Navy may struggle to adapt to the pace of technological, social and environmental change Ray Takeyh revisits the Iranian Revolution, finding that Jimmy Carter did not so much âloseâ Iran as misunderstand it And five more thought-provTrade Review‘In a world of complex security challenges the need for serious, thoughtful analysis is greater than ever. Survival’s combination of elegant writing and rigorous scholarship from the world’s top experts makes it essential reading for both practitioners and academics.’Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, War Studies King's College LondonTable of ContentsSurvival 64.4 (August–September 2022), pp. 1–184 The War in Ukraine and the Global Nuclear Order Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War What Putin Fights For Russia’s Arctic Designs and NATO Russia’s Demise as an Energy Superpower The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank Noteworthy The US Navy’s Generational Challenge The Coup that Wasn’t: Jimmy Carter and Iran Cold War Redux? Book Reviews Deterrence and Arms Control Asia-Pacific Russia and Eurasia The H-bomb in the Swamp: Taking Nuclear War Seriously Again

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. The book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses and consequences of conflict.The volume provides students with a strong grounding in the contribution of war to the development of the modern world, from the pre-industrial era to the age of international terrorism and smart weapons.  Covering all the major wars of the past two centuries, the third edition has been revised and updated and now includes: new introductory essays at the start of each section to help students recognize historical turning points and strategic themes;  revised and updated material on the post-Cold War period, accommodating new developments and contemporary perspectives; new material on non-Western views on strategy, especially Sun Tzu; a new chapter on The age Trade Review'Since it was first published in 2007 War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History has been a classic and distinctive text in the Strategic Studies literature. Professor Gray, one of the great strategic thinkers of his day, argued that strategic history indicated that the future of warfare was likely to be very much like the past and that the general theory of strategy was unchanging. He also argued that great power rivalry was likely to re-emerge in the future. Following his premature death, Professor Wirtz has done a great service to students and practitioners of strategy by bringing Gray’s analysis up to date in this new edition showing how important Gray’s insights and analysis are to the understanding of the contemporary war in Ukraine and the growing geopolitical tensions in relations between the West and the developing ‘unlimited’ strategic alliance between Russia and China. Professor Wirtz is to be congratulated. This is a great testimony to the enduring value of the writings of Colin S. Gray.' Emeritus Professor John Baylis, FLSW, FRHist.S, FAcSS, USA Praise for previous editions: 'The author’s discussions and clarity of thought and expression make this work ideal as a textbook for introducing civilian students and prospective military officers of the various military academies to the subject.' Parameters Table of ContentsIntroduction: Strategic History PART I: THEORY OF WAR 1. Themes and Contexts of Strategic History 2. Carl Von Clausewitz and The Theory of War PART II: THE FRENCH AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS 3. From Limited War to National War: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Way of War 4. The Nineteenth Century, I: A Strategic View 5. The Nineteenth Century, II: Technology, Warfare and International Order PART III: WORLD WAR I AND THE TWENTY-YEAR ARMISTICE 6. World War I, I: Controversies 7. World War I, II: Modern Warfare 8. The Twenty-Year Armistice, 1919-39 9. The Mechanization of War PART IV: WORLD WAR II 10. World War II in Europe, I: The Structure and Course of Total War 11. World War II in Europe, II: Understanding the War 12. World War II in Asia-Pacific, I: Japan and the Politics of Empire 13. World War II in Asia-Pacific, II: Strategy and Warfare PART V: THE COLD WAR 14. The Cold War, I: Politics and Ideology 15. The Cold War, II: The Nuclear Revolution PART VI: OUR CONTEMPORARY AGE 16. War and Peace After the Cold War: An Interwar Decade 17. 9/11 and the Age of Terror 18. The Age of Acceleration and the Rise of Great Power Competition Conclusion: War, Peace and International Order

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Book SynopsisSoviet-East European Relations as a Problem for the West (1987) analyses the evolution of Eastern Europe both internally and in its relationship with the Soviet Union, the development of relations between the two superpowers, and the equilibrium between the two security systems. It examines how these changes have altered Western policy options, how internal Western frictions, arising from differing interpretations of these developments, can best be managed, and the most appropriate future policies both to achieve Western goals and to benefit Eastern Europe.

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book's logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics of empathy/othering and inclusiviTable of ContentsChapter One: Introduction: Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict Colin Flint and Kara E. DempseyChapter Two: Geography and War, Geographers and Peace: Expanding Research and Political Agendas Virginie MamadouhChapter Three: Geographies of Peace Nerve V. Macaspac and Adam MooreChapter Four: Spatializing Peace and Peacebuilding: Where is Knowledge About Peace and Peacebuilding Produced?Annika BjörkdahlChapter Five: Navigating the Ambiguous Geographies of War and Peace James A. TynerChapter Six: Forging Shared Spaces for Building Peace Kara E. DempseyChapter Seven: The Violence of Development and the Prospects for Peace Colin FlintChapter Eight: Postcolonial Conflict in Southeast Asia: Rethinking the Shatterbelt with Colonial Rupture in Asia’s Cold War Christian Lentz and Scott KirschChapter Nine: Feminist Geopolitics and Empathetic Encounters with the Unseen: Reconsidering Black Hawk Down 20 Years Later Orhon Myadar and Tony ColellaChapter Ten: The Spatialities of Nonviolent Peace Activism in the Midst of War: From Colombia to UkraineSara KoopmanChapter Eleven: Peacework: Everyday Negative Peace Across South Asian BorderscapesMd Azmeary FerdoushChapter Twelve: Hybrid Networks: Technology, Geopolitics and Ontology in Digital Warfare Ian SlesingerChapter Thirteen: Geographies of Environmental Peace and Conflict Shannon O’LearChapter Fourteen: Conflict and Cooperation: The Adverse Effects of Climate ChangeAndrew Linke and Clionadh Raleigh Chapter Fifteen: Placing Peace: The Pedagogies of Positive Peace and Environmental JusticeMark Ortiz, María Belén Noroña, Lorraine Dowler, and Joshua Inwood

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the responsibility of judges of domestic courts following unconstitutional usurpation of power of government (coups d'état). It explores judges' liability for failing to discharge their judicial duty independently and impartially, and the criminality of usurpers and their accomplices and collaborators for their violation of fundamental rights and freedoms or commission of crimes of international concern. Written by a highly regarded non-Western author, the book is coherent and meticulously researched, covering an approach to coups in an insightful and fascinating fashion. It includes a sophisticated and thorough analysis of the relevant comparative jurisprudence of domestic and international courts, with concrete examples of the best practices among decisions of domestic courts in countries that have experienced coups d'état. With an increasing global interest in the phenomenon of coups, democratic backsliding and the place and role of Trade Review"Judicial Responsibility and Coups d'État is the definitive study of a crucial issue faced by many courts around the world: how to grapple with unconstitutional changes in government. Written with great analytic clarity, the book ranges across a wide array of legal issues and regional contexts. Highly recommended!".Tom Ginsburg, Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, & Professor of Political Science, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Legal bases to assess the legality of unconstitutional usurpation of power; 3. Permissible parameters for judges in post-coup suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms; 4. Availability or non-availability of defences for judges in relation to judicial responsibility post-coups; 5. Amnesties, pardons, immunities and other restrictions on the prosecution of usurpers of power and their accomplices or collaborators; 6. International or extra-territorial criminal prosecution of coups-related crimes of international concern; 7. Epilogue; Index;

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Book SynopsisThis edited book analyzes Kosovo's foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries.After the 1999 liberation from Serbia, Kosovo built close relations with various countries that supported it in the process of reconstruction, economic stabilization, institution-building, and state-building. From 1999 to 2008, many of these states were politically and operationally engaged in Kosovo under the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Since its independence in 2008, the Republic of Kosovo has adopted a foreign policy in accordance with its values and strategic interests, a foreign policy that aims to strengthen Kosovo's security and foster its socio-economic prosperity in collaboration with primarily Western countries. In this volume, each chapter is dedicated to Kosovo's bilateral relations with a selected state with which it has establisheTrade Review 'This book is very timely and offers a much-needed analysis of Kosovo’s foreign policy and its diplomatic relationships with key strategic allies and partners. Outstanding scholars, as well as experienced diplomats and practitioners, provide their insightful examinations of the foreign policy and bilateral relations of Kosovo. This edited volume is also a valuable contribution to the understanding of international relations, diplomacy, and the foreign policy of small states. It serves as an excellent resource for academics, foreign policy decision-makers, diplomats, scholars, students, and a broad audience in general. We are delighted to highly recommend this book to all readers who seek an in depth understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and foreign policy perspectives of a new, young European country.'Arben Hajrullahu and Bekim Baliqi, Department of Political Science, University of Prishtina, Kosovo'This timely volume brings interesting new insights into how the young state of Kosovo has managed to establish relations with a wide range of countries and developed a distinct foreign policy profile. This study is not only attractive for scholars and students with an interest in Kosovo but also for those who want to better understand foreign policy strategies of small states.'Sophie Vanhoonacker, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands'Kosovo’s Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations shows how a recently independent state whose statehood is contested in some quarters has nonetheless managed to establish itself as a diplomatic actor with its own foreign policy. This timely and interesting volume combines insights and experiences from both academics and practitioners on Kosovar strategies in the field and the obstacles that had to be dealt with.'Thomas Conzelmann, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands'Everything you need to know and more about Kosovo’s place on the global stage appears in this rich edited book. Liridon Lika and his contributors have done an excellent job in analysing Kosovo both as a subject and actor of international relations, in its pre-and-post independence period. The contributions provide a comprehensive and multidimensional analysis of the bilateral relations forged by Kosovo both with traditional powers and with new States, such as those emerging from the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The book provides very useful knowledge for anyone wishing to understand how diplomacy helps shape the trajectory of a new State and its preferences in international affairs. The book also makes a genuine academic contribution, filling a void on a topic that is at present poorly researched. It is a meaningful collaborative project combining stimulating academic contributions from the Balkans, Europe, and the United States.' Sebastian Santander, Director of the Center for International Relations Studies (CEFIR) and Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Liège, BelgiumTable of Contents1. Introduction: Mapping Out Kosovo’s Foreign Relations 2. The Dynamics of US–Kosovo Relations: An Investigation of Key Factors 3. Kosovo and Albania, a Special Relationship: Retrospectives and Challenges Toward the Future 4. Bilateral Relations between Kosovo and Austria: An Unknown Friendship 5. Kosovo and Belgium: Dynamics and Factors of a Solid Relationship 6. Kosovo–Croatia Bilateral Relations: A Rapport Beyond Statehood 7. Kosovo and France Bilateral Relations: Between Change and Continuity 8. Kosovo–Germany Relations: Germany’s Role in Strengthening Kosovo’s Statehood 9. Kosovo and Montenegro: A Relationship Based on Euro–Atlantic Perspective 10. Bilateral Relations between Kosovo and North Macedonia: Condemned to Cooperate? 11. Kosovo and Sweden: A Relationship Based on Values and Principles 12. Kosovo’s Bilateral Relations with Turkey: Between Cooperation and Mistrust 13. Bilateral Relations between Kosovo and the United Kingdom: A British Perspective 14. Conclusion: Assessment and Outlook of the Kosovo’s Foreign Policy and Bilateral Relations

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership.It aims to provide a guide for the future by shining a light on what worked and what failed in the civil-military relationships that steered great powers during the last era of rapid global change. While future civil-military relationships will have to adapt to the current global environment, the past remains, as always, a prelude. Thus, crucial concepts that underpin all such relationships are eternal and are waiting to be drawn out by historians trained to examine and present them to those who can put them to immediate good use. This volume demonstrates the relevance of history in every chapter, as readers will see parallels to today's problems throughout every case study. The world is entering an age of great challenges, many of which require nations particularly the most powerful to establish civil-military reTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Lincoln, Grant, and the Secrets of Their Success 3. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee 4. Clemenceau and Foch: How Not to Share an Armrest 5. Lloyd George, Haig and the Supreme Command, 1917-1918 6. Imperial Germany’s Supreme Command during the First World War 7. Stalin and the Stavka: Formulating Soviet Strategy during the Great Patriotic War 8. The German High Command 9. Roosevelt and Marshall: The Road to Overlord 10. Couldn’t Winston Trust His Generals? 11. Truman and MacArthur: Rendezvous with History 12. Mao and His Generals: The War to Resist America and Aid Korea Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe IISS Strategic Dossier China's Belt and Road Initiative provides a geopolitical and geo-economic assessment of President Xi Jinping's flagship foreign-policy initiative. The dossier explores the Belt and Road Initiative's role in China's domestic industrial strategy and in the country's growing influence around the world. It studies how Beijing's ambitions, management and financing of the initiative have evolved since its launch in 2013. In addition, the volume reflects on the future of China's initiative following the COVID-19 pandemic.The dossier is organised around a region by region assessment of what Beijing has sought to achieve in different countries and how the Belt and Road Initiative has played out over time. The volume examines recipient countries' responses to the Belt and Road Initiative and how these have affected it. It also looks at responses from other global and regional powers to China's economic activities around the world and offers thoughts onTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Strategy: China’s Evolving Ambitions 2. Management: From Disorder to Direction 3. Financing: State Capitalism Overseas 4. Regions: Introduction and Comparison Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive study of defence offsets and its economic, security, political and theoretical implications.Originating in the second half of the 19th century, defence offsets - additional economic, industrial and technological benefits to states for buying foreign weapons - have since been a key feature of the global arms trade and defence industry. And yet, offsets are an under-researched and under-theorised phenomenon. This book fills this gap in the literature by offering the first general theory of defence offsets, as well as the first systematic analysis of the offset phenomenon. By building on the insights of scholars of defence economics and drawing from the International Relations liberal paradigm, as well as reviving and adapting Robert Putnam's two-level game framework, the book proposes a liberal-rationalist theory of defence offsets. It then proves the worth of such a theory through Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of fifty-four figTrade Review'Jonata Anicetti’s treatment of defence offset is both novel and refreshing. A liberalist-rationalist theoretical framework is employed to critically evaluate the conceptual, historical and contemporary application of offset. In particular, the author examines the offset performance of fighter aircraft programmes by reference to Brazilian, Indian and South Korean case studies, and poses questions as to why offset was sought, why the respective offset packages proved so materially different and why the goal of ‘strategic partnership’ was not a generic outcome. The book represents a huge contribution to knowledge and is a must-read by all scholars of defence-related technology management.'Ron Matthews, Chair, Defence and Security Capability at Rabdan Academy, Abu Dhabi, and Visiting Professor in Defence Economics at Cranfield University at the UK Defence Academy, UK'Jonata Anicetti's defence offset study is very timely and reflects a need to better understand this persistent and demand driven practice in defence procurement. His deep analysis of the significant Korean, Indian and Brazilian defence acquisition programs, together with a survey of the breadth of offset transactions in aerospace, present for the first time a holistic analysis in his liberalist-rationalist approach. The importance of the work is as much in the powerful policy options it shows are clearly available to governments, as in the new directions in defence and industrial policy research opened by these thorough and well researched papers.'Rodrik Cave, Publisher, Countertrade & Offset (CTO), London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Everything You Need to Know About Defence Offsets: Ontology, History, Politics, and Trends 2. Toward a Liberal-Rationalist Theory of Defence Offsets 3. Performing QCA Analysis on 54 FGA Transfers 4. Brazil’s FX(2) Fighter Aircraft Competition 5. India’s MMRCA Tender: The ‘Mother of All Defence Deals’ 6. South Korea’s F-X3 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisConflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies.Designed as a resource guide, this general volume introduces the multiple roles cultural heritage plays through the conflict cycle from its onset, subsequent escalation and through to resolution and recovery. In its broadest sense, it questions what role cultural heritage plays within conflict, how cultural heritage is used in the construction and justification of conflict narratives, how are these narratives framed and often manipulated to support particular perspectives, and how we can develop better understandings of cultural heritage and work towards the better protection of cultural heritage resources during conflict. It moves beyond the protection paradigm and recognises that cultural heTable of Contents1.Introduction, 2. Cultural Heritage and the Causes of Violent Conflict Causes, 3.Heritage and Ethnic/ Identity Conflicts, 4. Heritage and Nation Building, 5. Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict, 6. Cultural Heritage, Peacemaking and Post-Conflict Societies, 7. Cultural Heritage and Peace, 8. Heritage and Conflict Memory, 9. Comparative practice and Environmental Peacebuilding, 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book on the economics of defence industry assesses a series of historical and contemporary case studies that consistently demonstrate the need for governments to recognise, and thereafter factor, the financial needs of a narrow industrial sector that is capital intensive, technologically advanced and that requires a highly skilled labour force.Since the end of the cold war, Western governments have systematically reduced financial support to their domestic defence industry and have seemingly ignored planning and funding industrial mobilisation. In all cases, government policy has been to encourage industries to consolidate capacity to become financially viable in a sector that has seen diminished demand. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused Western governments to reassess their previous assumptions. Efforts to increase industrial capacity have been met with the iron laws of economics whereby businesses need to show return on investments. The chapters in this vTable of ContentsIntroduction—The economics of defense industry: contemporary prospects and challenges Part 1: Historical perspectives 1. Defence procurement in perspective: what the history of the aircraft industry can tell us about UK defence procurement 2. Why the Turkish defense industry between 1919 and 1950 failed? 3. The Czech defence and security industry: taking the pulse to an ailing man 4. Defence industry in Iran - between needs and real capabilities 5. The decline of South Africa’s defence industry 6. The Greek defence industry: from crisis to equilibrium 7. Addressing the “headwinds” faced by the European arms industry Part 2: Defence industrial policies and practices 8. Success and failures of the Gripen offsets in the Visegrad Group countries 9. Clustering in defence-related procurement: the case of a Belgian naval construction cluster 10. Make or buy? Explaining diverging frigate procurement approaches in Denmark and Norway 11. The challenges in buyer-supplier relationship for technological absorption capability in international defence acquisition: the case of Southeast Asia Conclusion: Economics of Defense Industry

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Book SynopsisSurvival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Hans Binnendijk and David C. Gompert assess that Sino-US talks on nuclear stability should start with a nuclear no-first-use declaration Irene Mia argues that fiscal constraints might prevent new leftist governments in Latin America from implementing their policy pledges Agnieszka Gehringer makes the case that the EU will benefit in the longer term from reducing its economic dependency on China Jean-Yves Haine observes that the Ukraine crisis may be more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis insofar as Vladimir Putin considers Ukraine strategically crucial to Russia Cesare Merlini believes that the legacies of Henry Kissinger and Jean Monnet may help us to Trade Review‘In a world of complex security challenges the need for serious, thoughtful analysis is greater than ever. Survival’s combination of elegant writing and rigorous scholarship from the world’s top experts makes it essential reading for both practitioners and academics.’ Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, War Studies King's College London Table of ContentsSurvival 65.1 (February–March 2023), pp. 1–184 Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Kore Can the Left Deliver Change in Latin America? The Crowded Red Sea Noteworthy Europe’s Fragile Unity Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency Kindred Crises? Cuba 1962, Ukraine 2022 The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs Gambling the World: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited Book Reviews Russia and Eurasia Africa Asia-Pacific The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders

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Book SynopsisThe Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is published and launched at the Dialogue and the issues analysed within its covers are central to discussions at the event. Since February 2022, the war in Ukraine has provided a bleak backdrop for discussions about international security. While the war has affected many aspects of security and defence in the Asia-Pacific, the region also has its own dynamics, and important security-related developments have occurred there since the invasion. Among these, China's ever-growing power and increasingly assertive posture remain the leading long-term challenges for the region. This tenth edition of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment contains an introduction and six chapters, authored by IISS expertTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: War in Ukraine and the Asia-Pacific Balance of PowerChapter 2: Strained US–China Relations and the Growing Threat to TaiwanChapter 3: Asia-Pacific Naval and Maritime Capabilities: the New Operational DynamicsChapter 4: China’s Belt and Road Initiative a Decade onChapter 5: Japan Steps Up: Security and Defence Policy Under KishidaChapter 6: Conflict in Myanmar and the International ResponseIndex

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Responding to the unprecedented violence of our times, and the corresponding interest in nonviolent solutions, this book takes up the heart of pacifism: its critique of what pacifists have termed the war system.Pacifism as War Abolitionism provides an account of the war system that draws on contemporary sociology, history, and political philosophy. The core of its critique of that system is that war begets war, and hence war will not be endedor even constrainedby finding more principled ways to fight war, as many imagine. War can only be ended by ending the war system, which can only be done nonviolently. This has been the message of pacifism''s great voices like Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dorothy Day. It is the principal message of this book.Key Features Draws extensively on the sociological and historical research on war to expand the usual philosophical discussion beyond hypothetical accounts Exp

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Book SynopsisAs Sino-US relations have deteriorated, concerns have grown in Washington over its ability to defeat China in a major conflict. A conflict between such peer competitors would likely become a protracted war of attrition drawing on all dimensions of national power, but this reality has yet to receive a sufficient degree of analytical attention.In this Adelphi book, Iskander Rehman provides a historically informed and empirically grounded study of protracted great-power war, its core drivers and characteristics, and an examination of the elements that have most often determined a competitor's long-term strategic performance. Final victory in a protracted conflict, this book argues, rests on a combination of three core factors: a state's military effectiveness and adaptability, its socio-economic power and resiliency, and the soundness of its alliance management and grand strategy. A detailed analysis of the contemporary Sino-US rivalry assesses how both parties might fareTrade Review‘Iskander Rehman brings fresh insights into what the Eisenhower administration called ‘broken-back warfare’ – combat that is expansive in scale, scope and duration, with cycles of escalation. This excellent study examines both US and Chinese military writings in the context of broader military history. It is reminiscent of George H. Quester’s Deterrence Before Hiroshima in prompting reconsideration of comfortably situated concepts.’Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; former Deputy Director of Policy Planning, US Department of State ‘Would a US–China war be a sudden catastrophe or a long struggle? In this timely book, Iskander Rehman draws on a wealth of historical insights to trace the overlooked contours of long war as the norm for great-power conflict. He makes a powerful if disturbing case for Washington and its allies to prepare for protracted warfare in the Indo-Pacific. Such preparation itself could enhance deterrence if, as Rehman persuasively argues, China’s resilience is less than meets the commissar’s eye.’Professor Rory Medcalf, Head of the Australian National University National Security College; author of Indo-Pacific Empire (2020) ‘Despite the fact that it would be enormously destructive, a future war between the United States and China could drag on for months, even years. What mix of organisational, industrial and societal factors would be most important to achieving victory in such a struggle? Iskander Rehman’s important new study offers a provocative, persuasive and, in certain respects, troubling answer to this question, drawing on a deep knowledge of history, as well as an incisive, wide-ranging analysis of the two competitors.’Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsCHAPTER ONE: Planning for protraction CHAPTER TWO: Great-power success in protracted warfare: key drivers and core components CHAPTER THREE: China, the US and protracted war: a comparative evaluation CHAPTER FOUR: Conclusion NOTES INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe Armed Conflict Survey 2023 provides an exhaustive review of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of active armed conflicts globally in the period from 1 May 202230 June 2023. The review is complemented by a strategic analysis of regional and global drivers and conflict outlooks, providing unique insights into the geopolitical and geo-economic threads linking conflicts regionally and globally, as well as into emerging flashpoints and political risks to monitor. This edition's regional-focused approach also includes Regional Spotlight chapters on selected key conflict trends of regional and global importance. Reflecting the growing significance of geopolitical factors in shaping current conflict trends across the world, The Armed Conflict Survey 2023 features the third edition of the IISS Armed Conflict Global Relevance Indicator, which compares the global relevance of armed conflicts in terms of their geopolitical impact, as well as their human impaTable of Contentsa) Editor’s Introduction b) Notes on Methodology c) Regional Sections 1. Americas 1.1 Mexico 1.2 Colombia 1.3 Brazil 1.4 Haiti 1.5 El Salvador 1.6 Honduras 2. Europe and Eurasia 2.1 Russia-Ukraine 2.2 Nagorno-Karabakh 3. Middle East and North Africa 3.1 Syria 3.2 Iraq 3.3 Israel–Palestinian Territories 3.4 Yemen 3.5 Libya 3.6 Egypt 3.7 Turkiye 4. Sub-Saharan Africa 4.1 Mali 4.2 Burkina Faso 4.3 Niger 4.4 Nigeria 4.5 Cameroon 4.6 Chad 4.7 Central African Republic 4.8 South Sudan 4.9 Ethiopia 4.10 Somalia 4.11 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4.12 Rwanda 4.13 Uganda 4.14 Mozambique 4.15 Sudan 5. Asia 5.1 Afghanistan 5.2 Pakistan 5.3 Kashmir 5.4 Myanmar 5.4 India 5.5 Thailand 5.6 Philippines d) Data Appendix e) Index

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Book SynopsisCombining the insights of a seasoned practitioner with the academic rigor of a meticulous policy and risk analyst, del Castillo discusses the major obstacles to peacebuilding that need to be removed before war-torn countries can move towards peace, stability, and prosperity. As Secretary-General António Guterres assumes leadership in January 2017, a top priority must be to address the bleak peacebuilding record where over half of the countries under UN watch relapse back into conflict within a decade.While policy debate and the academic literature have focused on the security, political, and social aspects of the war-to-peace transition, this book focuses on the economic transitionthat is, economic reconstruction or the political economy of peacewhich, in the author's view, is the much-neglected aspect of peacebuilding. The book argues that rebuilding war-torn states effectively has acquired a new sense of urgency since extremist groups increasingly recruit people by pTrade Review"Graciana del Castillo's books have demonstrated that peace is far too difficult to leave to the generals, diplomats, peacekeepers, lawyers and political scientists. She shows that sustainable peace without economic transformation is close to impossible. This volume advances that important body of work, drawing crucial distinctions among the phases of economic transformation and proposing novel solutions to the persistent failure of the international community to play its proper role in the design and implementation of the political economy of peace." - Michael Doyle, University Professor, Columbia University and author of "The Question of Intervention" (Yale, 2015)"Peacebuilding is much lionized, but rarely lives up to expectations. This is doubly puzzling as the UN has been engaged in peacebuilding for several decades. This excellent, admirably compact volume explains the need for active UN peacebuilding and the multiple challenges it faces. Graciana del Castillo is an economically literate, politically acute analyst committed above all to positive results on the ground. She is uniquely qualified to decode the objectives and challenges involved having been a lead actor in peacebuilding." - Dr. David M. Malone, Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations"Accessible and unencumbered by jargon, Obstacles to Peacebuilding is an authoritative, hard-hitting and unvarnished assessment of the UN’s underwhelming record when it comes to helping countries recover from war and protracted conflict. It is an excellent and timely study, covering a broad canvas of cases and pregnant with policy implications. Of interest to practitioners, scholars and students alike, this is a contribution to the literature that deserves a very wide readership." - Mats Berdal, Professor of Security and Development, King’s College London and author of "Building Peace After War" (Routledge, 2009)"Much has been learned about building peace, stability and prosperity in countries undergoing security and political reform, national reconciliation, and economic reconstruction. With her critical eye, Graciana del Castillo pulls it all together in this tightly written, insightful and compelling book." - Ambassador Enrique ter Horst, former SRSG in El Salvador and Haiti and Assistant Secretary-General in the Office of the Director-General for Development and International Economic CooperationTable of ContentsForeword by Alvaro de SotoIntroduction 1 Peacebuilding: Conceptual Framework—From An Agenda for Peace and its Supplement to An Agenda for Development 2 Economic reconstruction amid the multidisciplinary transition to peace3 The economics of war, the economics of conflict resolution, the economics of peace, the economics of development4 Economic reconstruction vs development: Evolving conceptual views5 Peacebuilding at the UN—From conceptualization to operationalization6 The peacebuilding record, lessons, and challenges7 Specific economic issues affecting peacebuilding in selected countries8 Policymaking premises for effective economic reconstruction9 Moving forward: Thinking outside the box

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies provides a detailed exploration of security dynamics in the three distinct subregions that comprise Asia, and also bridges the study of these regions by exploring the geopolitical links between each of them.The Handbook is divided into four geographical parts:Part I: Northeast AsiaPart II: South AsiaPart III: Southeast AsiaPart IV: Cross-regional IssuesThis fully revised and updated second edition addresses the significant developments which have taken place in Asia since the first edition appeared in 2009. It examines these developments at both regional and national levels, including the conflict surrounding the South China Sea, the long-standing Sino-Indian border dispute, and Pakistan's investment in tactical nuclear weapons, amongst many others.This book will be of great interest to students of Asian politics, security studies, war and conflict studies, foreTable of ContentsIntroduction, Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell and Joseph Chinyong Liow PART I: Northeast Asia 1. Whither China’s 21st Century Trajectory?, Andrew Scobell 2. Sino-Japanese Rivalry and Its Consequences for Asia, Sheila A. Smith 3. North Korea’s Nuclear Weaponization Program: Background, Context, and Trends for the Future, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr 4. False Alarm: Xinjiang and China’s National Security, Yitzhak Shichor 5. Origins, Intentions, and Security Implications of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, Jeffrey Reeves 6. The Dynamics of Russo-Chinese Relations, Stephen Blank 7. Taiwan’s Traditional Security Challenge as a Contested State, Ming-chin Monique Chu 8. China’s Maritime Ambitions, Andrew S. Erickson PART II: South Asia 9. The Evolution of India’s Nuclear Weapons Program, Dinshaw Mistry 10. Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Laying the Groundwork for Impunity, C. Christine Fair 11. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia, Shivaji Mukherjee 12. India and Pakistan: Persistent Rivalry, Rajesh Basrur 13. China and India: The Evolution of a Compound Rivalry, Manjeet S. Pardesi 14. Civil-Military Relations in South Asia, Aqil Shah 15. Human Security in India, Swarna Rajagopalan 16. India and Its Great Power Aspirations, William R. Thompson PART III: Southeast Asia 17. ASEAN Centrality Tested, Mely Caballero-Anthony 18. Genealogy of Conflict: The Roots, Evolution and Trajectory of the South China Sea Disputes, Richard Javad Heydarian 19. Indonesia as a Regional Power: A Pan-Indo-Pacific Worldview, Vibhanshu Shekhar 20. Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Indonesia, Susan Sim 21. United States’ Pivot and Southeast Asia, Daniel Wei Boon Chua 22. Democratization in Southeast Asia: Social, Institutional and Security Considerations, Michael Vatikiotis 23. Assessing Peace Processes in Southeast Asia, S.P. Harish 24. Foreign Policy and Political Changes in Post-Junta Myanmar, Renard Egreteau PART IV: Cross-Regional Issues 25. The Future of Great Power Rivalry in the Indian Ocean, Iskander Rehman 26. Asian Regionalisms, David Capie 27. Anatomy of a Rivalry: China and Japan in Southeast Asia, Hoo Tiang Boon 28. The Future of Alliances in Asia, Andrew O’Neil 29. The United States and Asia: Following Through on the Pivot, Robert Sutter

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Book SynopsisLarge-scale investments in fragile states in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security.International policy responds with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, with poor and often perverse results. Caught up in old ways of thinking about conflict and fragility, and an age-old fight over whether multinational corporations are good or bad for peaceful development, it leaves business-related conflicts in fragile states to multiply and fester.Surveying a new strategic landscape of business and conflict, Brian Ganson and Achim Wennmann conclude that neither company shareholders nor advocates for peaceful development need, or should, accept the growing cost of business-related conflict in fragile states. Drawing on decades of experience from mainstream conflict prevention and violence reduction efforts, as well as promising company practice, they showTable of ContentsIntroduction: New lenses on business and conflict in fragile states1. Predatory companies in fragile states2. Business and peaceful development in fragile states3. The changing landscape of business and conflict in fragile states4. The limits of state-building 5. Responses to conflict that workConclusion: The case for pragmatic solutions

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Book SynopsisThis work explains and critically examines the main theoretical aspects of operational warfare at sea. It utilizes diverse examples from naval history, ranging from the ancient era to the present day, to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of the key components of operational warfare at sea today. Specifically, it explains the military/naval objectives, levels of war, types of major naval/joint operations and maritime campaigns, and their main elements. In contrast to many works, this book focuses on the role of the naval operational commanders in command and control and decision-making. It also describes in great detail the main elements of naval operational leadership and operational thinking, which are illustrated by examples of successful warfighting admirals. This new edition has been completely revised and updated, with three new chapters, and analyses in even more detail the planning and execution of major naval/joint operations and maritime campaigns.<Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction 2. The Objectives3. Methods4. Elements 5. Operational Command and Control6. Operational Decision-Making7. Operational Design8. Operational Idea9. Operational Support10. Operational Planning11. Preparations and Execution12. Operational Leadership 13. Operational Thinking

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the question of how to deter a non-state terrorist actor.Can terrorism be deterred? This book argues that current research is unable to find strong cases of deterrence success, because it uses a flawed research design which does not capture the longitudinal dynamics of the process. So far, the focus of inquiry has been on the tactical elements of a state's counterterrorism strategy, instead of the non-state actor's grand strategies. By studying the campaigns of Hezbollah, the Palestinians, the Irish Republican Army, Chechens, the Kurdistan Workers'' Party, and Al-Qaeda/Taliban and ISIS over time, we can see that deterrence strategies that target the cost-benefit calculus of terrorist organizations lead to wars of attrition which is the non-state organization's strategy for victory. To escape the attrition trap, the state must undermine the attrition strategy of terrorist organizations by using offensive campaigns that become critical educational moments. TTable of ContentsIntroduction, Elli Lieberman 1. Theoretical Models of Deterring Terrorism, Elli Lieberman 2. Israel-Hezbollah: From ‘Rules of the Game’ to Deterrence Stability, Daniel Sobelman 3. Israel-PLO: From National Liberation to Deterrence Stability, Or Honig and Ido Yahel 4. Britain-PIRA: From National Liberation to Diplomacy and Peace, Rory Finegan 5. Russia-Chechnya: From National Liberation to Deterrence Stability, Tracey German 6. Reaching a Balance of Resolve: The Enduring Conflict between Turkey and the PKK, Metin Gurcan and Mustafa Cosar Unal 7. Israel-Hamas: From National Liberation to Partial Deterrence Stability, Joshua Arsenault and Or Honig 8. United States-Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS: The Failure to Defeat Jihadist Terror, Arie Perliger and Matthew Sweeney Conclusion, Elli Lieberman

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Book SynopsisWho's Afraid of ISIS? eschews familiar debates about the status of ISIS as an existential threat to the West, with the aim of submitting those types of arguments to a reasoned examination of the political place of anxiety itself. This collection concerns itself with the doxologies that attend such arguments, or with that which, as Bourdieu wrote, goes without saying becomes it comes without saying and so become the unexamined points of departure for contentions about ISIS that may, for that very reason, hold entire life worlds together. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies on Security.Table of Contents1 ‘Who’s Afraid of ISIS?’ Security doxa and the doxa of insecurity Daniel Bertrand Monk 2. Towards a doxology of war Daniel Bertrand Monk 3. Instilling judgement: counter-narratives of humour, fact and logic Hedvig Ördén 4. Fear in the crowd or fear of the crowd? The dystopian politics of fear in international relations Eric Van Rythoven 5. ‘Who’s Not Afraid of ISIS?’ M. L. deRaismes Combes 6. Imag(in)ing the severed head: ISIS beheadings and the absent spectacle Jessica Auchter 7. Forgetting ISIS: enmity, drive and repetition in security discourse Charlotte Heath-Kelly 8. Security games: the coded logics of the playable war on ISIS Laini Kavaloski 9. Evil™ — Islamic State, conflict-capitalism, and the Geopolitical Uncanny Amanda E. Rogers 10. Threat inflation as political melodrama: ISIS and the politics of late modern fear Daniel J. Levine

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Book SynopsisDisorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country.This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international security has deteriorated. This negative-sum scenario resulted from years of zero-sum behaviour on the part of Russia and the West in post-Soviet Eurasia, which the authors rigorously analyse. The rivalry was manageable in the early period after the Cold War, only to become entrenched and bitter a decade later. The upshot has been systematic losses for Russia, the West and the countries caught in between.All the governments involved must recognise that long-standing policies aimed at achieving one-sided advantage have reached a dead end, Charap and Colton argue, and commit to finding mutually acceptable alternativeTrade Review‘Everyone Loses expertly captures the origins and tragic consequences of the Ukraine crisis. Charap and Colton have produced a balanced, highly readable volume arguing that all sides have miscalculated. They off er constructive ideas for how relations can be improved. As tensions are now running dangerously high, that makes their book required reading for policy communities on both sides of the Atlantic.’ Igor Ivanov, President, Russian International Aff airs Council, and former Foreign Minister of Russia‘Charap and Colton provide a timely, thoughtful and insightful account of a complicated region during a complicated historical period. A must-read for anyone looking to navigate disorder in Eurasia and the very real risks it poses to international peace and security.’ William J. Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former US Deputy Secretary of State‘Understanding the Ukraine crisis is no easy task. This book deftly traces the regional and global roots of this major challenge to the post-Cold War order. It offers valuable recommendations on the steps needed to stabilise both Ukraine and the region as a whole.’ Javier Solana, former Secretary-General of NATO, and former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy‘Historically informed and analytically penetrating, this account of the crisis in Ukraine and other “in-between” areas should be at the top of the reading lists for scholars, policymakers and members of the interested public. What is revealed could be called a comedy of errors if the results were not so tragic. And if leaders in Russia and the West are to cope with the confl ict they have created, they should start by reading this study.’ Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University'This is a balanced and very readable book that also contains helpful maps and chronology. Given these qualities, as well as the book’s scope and skilled review of various economic and security issues in Eurasia, the volume would serve as an ideal text for graduate and upper division undergraduate courses on international politics of central and eastern Europe and Eurasia.' Andrei P. Tsygankov, San Francisco State University, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Cold Peace2. Contestation Entrenched3. Breaking Point 4. The Negative-Sum Game and How to Move Past It

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Book SynopsisArt Therapy with Military Veterans: Trauma and the Image provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying art therapy with former and serving armed forces personnel who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This book brings together experienced contributors in one volume to provide the range of information essential to those seeking to understand the complexities of working in this context.In recent years, art therapy has received increasing attention as a promising treatment for veterans with PTSD. This cutting-edge book provides vital background information on PTSD, military culture and mental health provision, and an effective art therapy working model. The text explores creative partnerships with other disciplines, in different settings, and includes first-hand accounts from veterans about the role art therapy has played in their recovery. This accessible book is a timely response to growing recognition of the value of art therapy wiTable of ContentsPart 1: Art therapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder1. The development and practice of art therapy with military veteransJanice Lobban2. An Army Reservist’s storyClement Boland3. The biological basis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and recoveryKathy KravitsPart 2: The British Forces4. Mental health treatment for serving UK military personnelProfessor Jamie Hacker Hughes5. Military culture effects on mental health and help-seekingDr Walter Busuttil6. Coming homeRobert Bieber, Michael Sterba and Christine SterbaPart 3: Current approaches to art therapy with veterans in the UK7. An adaptive art therapy model for working with traumatised veteransJanice Lobban, Kirsty Mackay, Mark Redgrave, Sandya Rajagopal8. In two mindsJanice Lobban9. Trauma and dissociation – an insider’s viewRichard Kidgell10. Bypassing the sentinelJanice Lobban11. Research and evaluationAlison Smith and Janice LobbanPart 3: Taking a wider perspective12. Cultural collaborationsJanice Lobban and Liz Ellis13. Art in action – the Combat Art ProjectJon England, Tim Martin and Stuart Rosamond14. Reclaiming life through artDavid Murtagh and Janice LobbanIndex

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Book SynopsisThis new Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and debates on terrorism and counterterrorism, as well as providing a benchmark for future research.The attacks of 9/11 and the global war on terror' and its various legacies have dominated international politics in the opening decades of the 21st century. In response to the dramatic rise of terrorism, within the public eye and the academic world, the need for an accessible and comprehensive overview of these controversial issues remains profound. The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism and Counterterrorism seeks to fulfil this need. The volume is divided into two key parts: Part I: Terrorism: This section provides an overview of terrorism, covering the history of terrorism, its causes and characteristics, major tactics and strategies, major trends and critical contemporary issues such as radicalisation and cyber-terrorism. It concludes with a series of detailed case stTable of Contents1. The Study of Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Andrew Silke PART I: Terrorism 2. Defining Terrorism, Anthony Richards 3. Conceptualising and Measuring Terrorism, Gary LaFree 4. A History of Terrorism, Leonard Weinberg 5. Root Causes of Terrorism, Tore Bjørgo and Andrew Silke 6. State Terrorism, Andrew Silke 7. Nationalist and Separatist Terrorism, James Forest 8. Left-wing Terrorism, Leena Malkki 9. Right-wing Terrorism, George Michael 10. Lone-actor Terrorism, Noemie Bouhana, Stefan Malthaner, Bart Schuurman, Lasse Lindekilde, Amy Thornton and Paul Gill 11. Terrorist Psychology and Radicalisation, Zoey Reeve 12. Children as Agents of Terrorism and Political Conflict, Deborah Browne 13. Social Media, the Online Environment and Terrorism, Katherine Brown and Elizabeth Pearson 14. Terrorist Group Structures, Joshua Kilberg 15. The Effectiveness of Terrorism, Sarah Marsden 16. The Economic Impact of Terrorism, Thomas Baumert and Mikel Buesa 17. Fundraising, Organised Crime and Financing Terrorism, James Windle 18. Foreign Fighters and Terrorism, David Malet 19. Suicide Terrorism, Assaf Moghadam 20. Terrorist Hostage-taking, Margaret Wilson 21. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism, Gary Ackerman 22. Cyber Terrorism, Marc Rogers Case Studies 23. Al Qaeda, Donald Holbrook 24. Boko Haram, Jacob Zenn and Zacharias Pieri 25. Hamas, Sagit Yehoshua 26. Hizbullah, Raphael Marcus 27. Islamic State, Francis Gaffney 28. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Ahmed Salah Hashim 29. Provisional Irish Republican Army, John Morrison 30. Red Army Faction, Jennifer Schmidt-Peterson PART 2: Counterterrorism 31. Conceptualising Counterterrorism, Ronald Crelinsten 32. Policing in Counterterrorism, Lindsay Clutterbuck 33. The Military Approach to Counterterrorism, Michael Boyle 34. Intelligence and Counterterrorism, Julian Richards 35. Anti-Terrorism Laws , Clive Walker 36. Popular Support and (Counter) Terrorism, Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Bart Schuurman 37. Tackling Terrorist Fundraising and Finances, Marc Parker 38. Deterring and Preventing Terrorism, Joshua Freilich, Henda Hsu & Steven Chermak 39. Prisons and Detention, Jacqueline Bates-Gaston 40. Terrorist Disengagement and De-radicalisation, Kurt Braddock 41. Targeted Killings, Rory Finegan 42. Ethics and Human Rights in Counterterrorism, Lyndsey Harris and Rachel Monaghan Case Studies 43. Argentina, Itai Sneh 44. Canada, Stéphane Leman-Langlois 45. China, Elena Pokalova 46. France, Frank Foley 47. Great Britain, Steve Hewitt 48. India, Arijit Mazumdar 49. Iraq, Michael Clarke 50. Israel, Ami Pedahzur, Lusaura Gutierrez and Arie Perliger 51. Italy, Donatella della Porta and Lorenzo Bosi 52. Spain, Rogelio Alonso 53. Russia, Cerwyn Moore 54. The United States of America: Counterterrorism pre 9/11, Aaron Winter 55. The United States of America: Domestic Counterterrorism since 9/11, Joshua Sinai

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Book SynopsisThis new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from some of the world's premier researchers and practitioners in the field of naval strategy and security, this handbook covers naval security issues in diverse regions of the world, from the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean to the Arctic and the piracy-prone waters off East Africa's coast. It outlines major policy challenges arising from competing claims, transnational organized crime and maritime terrorism, and details national and alliance reactions to these problems. While this volume provides detailed analyses on operational, judicial, and legislative consequences that contemporary maritime security threats pose, it also places a specific emphasis on naval strategy. With a public very much focused on the softer constabulary roles naval forces play (such as humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, naval diplomacy, maTrade Review'...this book is chock full of insights from both U.S. and international perspectives that address the full range of critical issues in the naval strategic community. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the global character of modern naval power and maritime security.' -- Lieutenant Colonel F. G. Hoffman, Proceedings Magazine, U.S. Naval Institute 'Bruns and Krause's edited volume offers a wealth of insight and inspiration. It is both a mark of the evolution of maritime thought in Germany and a very valuable addition to the international debate on the challenges and opportunities humanity faces at sea and beyond.' -- Moritz Brake, War on the Rocks Table of ContentsPART I: Context and Concepts 1. Introduction: The Changing Face of 21st Century Naval Strategy and Maritime Security, Sebastian Bruns and Joachim Krause 2. The Complex Nature of Today’s Maritime Security Issues: A View from the European Union perspective, Lutz Feldt 3. The Future of Naval Conflict, Tim Benbow PART II: Chokepoints and Strategic Areas 4. The Maritime Dispute in the East China Sea, Ralf Emmers 5. The Maritime Dispute in the South China Sea, Vasco Becker-Weinberg 6. Strategic Features of the Indian Ocean Region, James Holmes 7. The complex nature of Security in the Indian Ocean, Caitlyn Antrim 8. The Gulf: How dangerous is Iran for international maritime security?, Anthony Cordesman 9. Maritime Security in the Mediterranean, Carlo Masala, Konstantinos Tsetsos and Torsten Albrecht 10. Arctic Security: New Challenges in a Diverse Region, Helga Haftendorn PART III: Doctrinal and Technological Issues on the Naval Agenda 11. The Complex Nature of Today’s Maritime Security Issues: Why Whole-of-Government Frameworks Matter, Brian Wilson 12. The Changing Nature of Naval Conflicts in Shallow and Confined Waters, Stavros Karlatiras 13. Anti-Access/Area Denial – Operational Concepts of the U.S. Navy and the Chinese Navy in the Indo-Pacific, Nikolaus Scholik 14. Cyber and Naval Strategy, Alison Lawlor Russell 15. (No) Princes of the Sea: Reflections on Maritime Terrorism, Peter Lehr 16. Piracy off the Somali Coast: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?, Martin Murphy PART IV: Actor Perspectives and Policy Options 17. U.S. Naval Policy in the first decade of the 21st Century: Strategy, Plans and Operations, Peter M. Swartz 18. Options for US Naval Strategy, Randy Papadopoulos 19. Some Elements of 21st Century German naval strategy, Sebastian Bruns 20. UK naval strategy and international security, Eric Grove 21. The Russian Navy, Klaus Mommsen 22. Maritime Security in Asia: A View from India, Vijay Sakhuja 23. Major Maritime Powers and their Changing Relationship, Brahma Chellaney 24. A Perspective on China’s Maritime Security Strategy, Xu Hui and Cao Xianyu 25. Chinese Views of the U.S.-Led Maritime Order. Assessing the Skeptics, Toshi Yoshihara 26. Maritime Renaissance – Naval Power in NATO’s Future, Diego Ruiz Palmer 27. The European Union’s Approach to Maritime Security, Rudolf Roy

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Book SynopsisThis book considers contemporary international interventions with a specific focus on analyzing the frameworks that have guided recent peacekeeping operations led by the United Nations. Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault and Foucauldian-inspired approaches in the field of International Relations, it highlights how interventions can be viewed through the lens of governmentality and its key attendant concepts. The book draws from these approaches in order to explore how international interventions are increasingly informed by governmental rationalities of security and policing. Two specific cases are examined: the UN''s Security Sector Reform (SSR) approach and the UN''s Protection of Civilians agenda. Focusing on the governmental rationalities that are at work in these two central frameworks that have come to guide contemporary UN-led peacekeeping efforts in recent years, the book considers: The use in IR of governmentality and its attendant notions of biopTrade Review'Marc Doucet’s book, Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations: Governmentalities of Security, Protection, and Police, drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, theorizes about the relationship between the governmental rationality and the UNPKO reform agenda in recent decades. He chooses two specific cases: the SSR model and the UNSC Protection of Civilians (PoC). In one of the chapters entitled Governmentality, sovereign power, and contemporary international peacekeeping operations, Doucet explores key Foucauldian notions, like governmentality, population, biopower and sovereign power.' Ricardo Oliveira dos Santos, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2019 Table of ContentsChapter 1: Reforming 21st-century peacekeeping operations: governmentalities of security, protection, and police Chapter 2: Governmentality, sovereign Power, and contemporary international peacekeeping operations Introduction The mentality of government Governmentalizing the state Sovereign power, biopower, and state sovereignty Sovereign power and states of emergency Conclusion Chapter 3: Police, security, and resilience Introduction International police and international policing Police as a figuration of sovereign power Police as regulation mania Security and police The police-security project of resilience Conclusion Chapter 4: Local ownership: the police-security project of security sector reform (SSR) Introduction Security Sector Reform (SSR): a summary The governmentality of SSR Operationalizing resilience through local ownership Conclusion Chapter 5: The UN’s protection of civilians agenda Introduction Civilis Civilis legalis The new lawfare of protecting civilians The UN’s PoC agenda Rationalizing protection at its point of application The necropolitics of protection Conclusion Chapter 6: Conclusion: reforming UN peacekeeping operations: security, protection, and police

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Book SynopsisThis collection, comprising key works by James J. Wirtz, explains how different threat perceptions can lead to strategic surprise attack, intelligence failure and the failure of deterrence.This volume adopts a strategist's view of the issue of surprise and intelligence failure by placing these phenomena in the context of conflict between strong and weak actors in world affairs. A two-level theory explains the incentives and perceptions of both parties when significant imbalances of military power exist between potential combatants, and how this situation sets the stage for strategic surprise and intelligence failure to occur. The volume illustrates this theory by applying it to the Kargil Crisis, attacks launched by non-state actors, and by offering a comparison of Pearl Harbor and the September 11, 2001 attacks. It explores the phenomenon of deterrence failure; specifically, how weaker parties in an enduring or nascent conflict come to believe that deterrent threats posed byTrade Review'Warning of threats to the Republic before they occur is the most important of all the many intelligence duties---and the main reason why America spends a fortune each year trying to understand where dangers lurk in this complex and uncertain world. The warning responsibility places an understanding of intelligence failure directly at the heart of U.S. national security considerations. Only a handful of people in the world can address this subject with authority and deep insight; James J. Wirtz is one of them. In this gracefully written and absorbing volume, he makes a strong case for a greater synergism and integration of this nation's intelligence efforts as a means for reducing the likelihood of failure. This book is one of the "must reads" for anyone interested in intelligence and national security as we enter an era of growing nuclear threats and ongoing global terrorism.' -- Loch K. Johnson, University of Georgia, USA'This characteristically erudite and thought-provoking volume from one of the leading figures in both Intelligence Studies and Strategic Studies is required reading for those seeking to understand, and minimise the occurrence of, strategic surprise.' -- Mark Phythian, University of Leicester, UK'This book, a premier in the field, distinguishes itself by skillfully merging theory of strategic surprise with theory of coercion. Wirtz diagnoses the main pathologies in the art of intelligence, and offers the most innovative doctrinal solution to deal with them, for the age of uncertainty and instability. As such, the book takes theoreticians and practitioners of intelligence and strategy a quantum leap forward.' -- Dima Adamsky, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel'In this fascinating and absorbing account Professor Wirtz masterfully explores the interconnectedness between risk, intelligence, and warning. His clear analysis and identification of the lessons of the past make this essential reading for scholars, analysts and policy-makers alike.' -- Michael S. Goodman, King's College London, UK'Intelligence failure and surprise attacks are flip sides of the same coin, though all too frequently studied separately. In Understanding Intelligence Failure: Warning, Response, and Deterrence James J. Wirtz effectively integrates the two sides together by exploring how knowledge and power interact to improve our understanding of surprise in international affairs. In doing so, he makes a significant contribution to both intelligence studies and security studies by providing a holistic theory of surprise which explains the planning and implementation of surprise attacks as well as practical suggestions for what can be done to prevent them. Written in an easily digestible fashion, this insightful exposition of the dynamics that underlie surprise attack will provide much knowledge and insight for those interested in intelligence and security.' -- Stephen Marrin, James Madison University, USATable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Theory of SurprisePart I: The Theory of Surprise Applied2. Surprise at the Top of the World3. Surprise and the Non-State Actor4. Déjà Vu? Comparing Pearl Harbor and 9/11Part II: Surprise and Deterrence Failure5. The Balance of Power Paradox6. Deterring the Weak: Problems and ProspectsPart III: Avoiding Surprise: Toward a New Intelligence Doctrine7. Red Teaming Surprise8. Indications and Warning in an Age of Uncertainty9. From Combined Arms to Combined Intelligence: Philosophy, Doctrine and Operations10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific securitisations. In doing so, the book outlines a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. It thereby clarifies the ever-increasing literature on different forms of securitisation and the relationship between security, risk and politics. Whereas securitisation studies have traditionally focused on either a single country case study or a global overview, consequently failing to reconTrade Review'The Securitisation of Climate Change is a welcome and important contribution to the literature. The authors provide detailed empirical analysis of the way securitisation practices play out in a range of national settings, and make the important point that the different forms of linking climate change and security are crucial to the types of practices securitisation encourages. In the process, this book not only provides much needed empirical depth and theoretical nuance to literature on climate security, it also makes a broader contribution to debates about the construction of security- and the normative implications of this construction- in international relations.' -- Matt McDonald, University of Queensland, Australia'In addressing the great challenge of our time, The Securitisation of Climate Change brings unprecedented analytical sensitivity, nuance and breadth to the politics of climate change. Reflecting the fascinating diversity of securitizations exposed in their comparative study, the authors compellingly advance the conceptual and ethical frontiers of securitization theory.' -- Stefan Elbe, University of Sussex, UK 'The Securitisation of Climate Change is a great read for anyone seeking to understand how and why climate change gets connected to ideas of security. Cross-country comparisons provide a sophisticated look at the variation in ways that climate change-security links are made by actors in different political, economic and social contexts. The authors provide some much-needed depth to existing debates while remaining accessible to readers.' -- Nicole Detraz, University of Memphis, USATable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Analysing climate security discourses 3 The United States: climate change as danger to the state 4 Germany: ambivalent forerunner in individual security 5 Mexico: A case of politicised securitisation? 6 Turkey: no climate for change? 7 Conclusion: the politics of securitising climate change

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a unique, authoritative and detailed examination of the physiological and clinical consequences of human exposure to high G forces. Pilots of military fast jets, civilian aerobatic pilots and astronauts during the launch and re-entry phases of spaceflight are frequently and repetitively exposed to high G forces, for which the human body is not fundamentally designed. The book examines not only the nature of the high G environment, but the physiological effects of exposure to high G on the various systems of the human body. In particular, the susceptibility of the human cardiovascular system to high G is considered in detail, since G-Induced Loss of Consciousness (G-LOC) is a serious hazard for high G pilots. Additionally, the factors that influence tolerance to G and the emerging scientific evidence of physiological adaptation to high G are examined, as are the various countermeasures and techniques that have been developed over the years to protect pilots from the pTrade Review’This is the book we have all been waiting for. Dr Newman has skilfully provided a unified understanding of the current state of knowledge on human exposure to high G forces. Clearly written, the reader is taken from basic physics, through the mechanics of flight exposure, to current methods of G protection. Highly recommended.’ Michael Bagshaw, King’s College London and Cranfield University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword, Lieutenant General (Dr) Thomas W. Travis; Preface. Part I Mechanics of G: The physics of gravity; High G flight. Part II Physiology of G: The cardiovascular system at +1 Gz; The cardiovascular system at high Gz; Respiratory effects of G; Musculoskeletal effects of G; Miscellaneous clinical effects of G. Part III Tolerance and Adaptation: Tolerance to high G; Cardiovascular adaptation to acceleration. Part IV Countermeasures: The anti-G straining manoeuvre; The G suit; Positive pressure breathing for G protection. References; Index.

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Book SynopsisAs the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole. This book reports the results of the research programme commissioned by the Coulsfield Inquiry into Alternatives to Prison, which was funded by the Esmée Fairbairn 'Rethinking Crime and Punishment' initiative. It is written by leading authorities in the field, and provides a comprehensive, authoritative and wide-ranging review of the range of issues associated with the use of noncustodial sanctions, examining experiences in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as England and Wales.Trade Review'Alternatives to Prison: options for an insecure society will prove to be a quite valuable title in the field of criminology, and specifically it will come to be seen as an invaluable text in the domain of penology and sentencing. Not only have the editors drawn a strong indictment of the multiple drawbacks to imprisonment save in the cases of violent offences or offenders, they have done so in a way that is sensitive to and responsive to the needs of a collectivity that believes itself to be 'insecure', whatever may be the true state of affairs, at least as may be judged by statistics and surveys'. – Gilles Renaud, Ontario Court of Justice, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsPreface 1. How Did We Get Here? 2. Trends in Crime, Victimisation and Punishment 3. Empirical Research Relevant to Sentencing Frameworks 4. Public Opinion and Community Penalties 5. Punishment as Communication 6. Diversionary and Nonsupervisory Approaches to Dealing with Offenders 7. Reparative and Restorative Approaches 8. Rehabilitative and Reintegrative Approaches 9. Electronic Monitoring and the Community Supervision of Offenders 10. Dealing with Substance-misusing Offenders in the Community 11. Intensive Projects for Prolific/Persistent Offenders 12. What Guides Sentencing Decisions? 13. Sentence Management 14. Dimensions of Difference 15. Attitudes to Punishment in Two High-crime Communities 16. Pulling some threads together

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Book SynopsisThe Strategic Survey is a journal of records that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates. But it is also much more: the hard facts are embossed in considered and nuanced analysis over 300 pages of text. The Strategic Survey opens with 'Perspectives', an assessment of the effect of major events and trends on the strategic landscape. Next, particular strategic policy issues, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, missile defence and the future of peacekeeping, are examined in separate chapters. Another eighteen to twenty chapters of similar length, written along thematic rather than merely chronological lines, cover developments in particular regions or countries. The Strategic Survey concludes with 'Prospectives', an essay setting forth strategic priorities for the coming year. Also included are thirty-two pages of maps depicting strategically important activity and political change - such as piracy and Russia's new federal districts - globally, regionally and locally. The interplay of political developments and the actual or potential use of military force remains The Strategic Survey's chief concern. Nevertheless, since the end of the Cold War and of the first distinct post-Cold War period, the Institute has recognised that any survey of matters strategic needs to broaden its scope to embrace economic Table of ContentsEvents at a Glance July 2008-June 2009 -- Chapter 1 Perspectives -- Chapter 2 Strategic Policy Issues -- Countering Modern Terrorist Threats -- Europe's Energy Security -- Towards a New Asian Security Architecture -- Chapter 3 North America -- The United States: The Primacy of Politics -- Canada: Conservatives'Tenuous Hold -- Chapter 4 Latin America -- Mexico: Drug-war Escalation -- Colombia: FARC Down but not Out -- Venezuela: A Decade of the Bolivarian Revolution -- Bolivia:'Refounding'a Polarised Nation -- Ecuador's New Constitution -- Peru: Domestic Backlash -- Brazil: Lula's Leadership -- Argentina: The Kirchners'Decline -- Cuba's Shifting Relationships -- Nicaragua: Ortega's Move toward Autocracy -- Haiti: Steps toward Stability -- Chapter 5 Europe -- Developments in European Defence -- France: A Year of Paradoxes -- Germany: Vulnerabilities in an Election Year -- United Kingdom: Political Drift -- Sluggishness in the Balkans -- Turkey: Continuing Domestic Wrangles -- Chapter 6 Russia -- Chapter 7 Middle East / Gulf -- Iran: Election Sparks Protests, Nuclear Programme Advances -- Middle East: New US Impetus Faces Old Challenges -- Iraq: Nation Gathers Strength Saudi Arabia and the -- Gulf: Cautious Modernisation -- Chapter 8 Africa -- Crossroads in South Africa -- Cohabitation in Zimbabwe -- Somalia: Anarchy and Piracy -- Persisting Intra-state Crises -- Chapter 9 South Asia and Afghanistan -- Pakistan: Political Fragility -- Afghanistan: Insurgency Grows -- India: Elections Bolster Stability -- Sri Lanka: Civil War Ends -- Bangladesh: Military-backed Rule Ends -- Nepal: Arguments Obstruct Peace Process -- Chapter 10 Asia-Pacific -- China: Caution Tempers Rising Status -- Southeast Asia: Political and Security Questions -- Australia and New Zealand: Defence Policy Shifts -- The Korean Peninsula: Diplomacy Derailed -- Japan: Politics Overshadows Security Issues -- Chapter 11 Prospectives -- Index -- Strategic Geography (after p. 212) -- Global Issues Global recession -- Slump in container trade -- Africa Anti-piracy operations off Somalia -- Middle East/Gulf West Bank settlements -- Iran's disputed election -- Asia-Pacific Afghanistan: military supply routes -- The rise of Pakistan's Taliban -- Confrontation in the Korean peninsula -- The Americas America's decaying infrastructure -- Drug-cartel violence in Mexico -- Index of Regional Maps -- North America -- Latin America -- Europe -- Russia / Eurasia -- Middle East -- Africa -- South Asia -- Asia-Pacific.

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