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41. Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations

    No Job for a Soldier?

    By James V. Arbuckle

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and professionals engaged in the field. This book clearly shows us that: neither military nor civilian agencies can act effectively alone in resolving...

    Published April 27th 2009 by Routledge
42. Justice, Intervention, and Force in International Relations

    Reassessing Just War Theory in the 21st Century

    By Kimberly A. Hudson

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book analyses the problems of current just war theory, and offers a more stable justificatory framework for non-intervention in international relations. The primary purpose of just war theory is to provide a language and a framework by which decision makers and citizens...

    Published March 2nd 2009 by Routledge
43. Europeanization of National Security Identity

    The EU and the changing security identities of the Nordic states

    By Pernille Rieker

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This new book tackles two key questions: 1) How is the EU functioning as a security actor? 2) How and to what extent is the EU affecting national security identities? Focusing on the four largest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), this incisive study analyzes how and to what...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
44. War as Risk Management

    Strategy and Conflict in an Age of Globalised Risks

    By Yee-Kuang Heng

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This major new study shows how war can be thought of in terms of proactive risk management rather than in terms of conventional threat response. It addresses why the study of ‘risk management’ has helped fields such as sociology and criminology conceptualize new policy challenges but has made...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
45. Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Post-War Societies

    Sustaining the Peace

    Edited by T. David Mason, James D. Meernik

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits, consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from violent conflict. The rationale for this comes from the growing realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of 9/11, our understanding of conflict and...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
46. Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

    Altered Images and Deception Operations

    By Scot Macdonald

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations. In the past, propagandists and those seeking to conduct deception operations used crude methods to alter images of real people, events and...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
47. Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
48. Theoretical Roots of US Foreign Policy

    Machiavelli and American Unilateralism

    By Thomas M. Kane

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This volume explores the reasons why American leaders from the 1700s onwards frequently adopt policies of unilateralism. Thomas M. Kane presents fresh explanations for America’s invasion of Iraq and defiance of international agreements, which go much deeper than conventional critiques of...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
49. European Security in the Twenty-First Century

    The Challenge of Multipolarity

    By Adrian Hyde-Price

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed empirical case-studies, this book provides an original view of the challenges and threats to a stable peace order in Europe. The end of Cold War bipolarity has transformed Europe. Using structural realist theory, Adrian Hyde-Price...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
50. America, the EU and Strategic Culture

    Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain

    By Asle Toje

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the lessons learnt in interacting with America have been crucial in shaping the emerging EU strategic culture. The book...

    Published November 29th 2008 by Routledge