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91. The Waning of Major War

    Theories and Debates

    Edited by Raimo Vayrynen

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and explore whether it is waxing or waning. The main point of departure is that major-power war as a historical institution is in decline. This does not mean, though, that wars between states...

    Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge
92. Nuclear Weapons and Strategy

    US Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century

    By Stephen J. Cimbala

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence. This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush...

    Published August 4th 2005 by Routledge
93. Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism

    The Origins and Dynamics of Civil Wars

    By Joseph L. Soeters

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atrocities were committed that led to hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced people. Explaining the origins and dynamics of such inhuman actions...

    Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge
94. Turkey and the War on Terror

    'For Forty Years We Fought Alone'

    By Andrew Mango

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    Since the 1970s, Turkey has suffered 35,000 deaths through terrorism, yet the PKK terror group was only recognized as such by the European Union in 2002. The realization that terrorism poses a world-wide threat is now forcing a keen reassessment of the struggle which Turkey has had to wage with...

    Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge
95. The Rift Between America and Old Europe

    The Distracted Eagle

    By Peter Merkl

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This new book explains the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with Germany and France. Particular attention is devoted to the several competing interpretations of the Euro-American rift, for example, that Europeans were taken aback when American...

    Published June 29th 2005 by Routledge
96. Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict

    Myth, Falsehood and Deceit 1991-1995

    By Brendan O'Shea

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the...

    Published January 19th 2005 by Routledge
97. The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing

    By Stephen J. Cimbala, Peter Forster

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of...

    Published December 21st 2004 by Routledge
98. NATO's Secret Armies

    Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe

    By Ganser Daniele

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. These secret soldiers were trained...

    Published December 21st 2004 by Routledge
99. Rethinking the Nature of War

    By Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have...

    Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge
100. The Foreign Office and Finland

     Diplomatic Sideshow

     By Craig Gerrard

     Series: Contemporary Security Studies

     The book looks at the ways in which the Northern Department of the Foreign Office approached matters pertaining to Finland in the years 1938-1940, concentrating on the particular issues of the proposed refortification of the Åland Islands, Finnish rearmament and aid to Finland during the Winter War...

     Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge