Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns

Grounded on tenets of cultural realism and social constructivism, Monica Gariup develops a theoretical framework to enhance our understanding of security culture at the European Union level and the implications of discourse and practice in European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP)...

Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed empirical casestudies, this book provides an original view of the challenges and threats to a stable peace order in Europe...

Since the end of World War II, security and defence have played a major role in European politics. This compelling volume provides an interdisciplinary look at the development and current status of the European security system as well as selected key issues on today's security agenda...

This title was first published in 2000:  Both NATO and the European Union are in the early stages of enlargement processes that will see both organizations expand to include a number of former Communist countries from Central Europe. This work brings together both processes of enlargement in order t..

This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of ‘exception’ and ‘exceptionalism’ in the context of the politics of liberty and security in the so-called ‘War on Terror’...

These studies show how the British Empire used its maritime supremacy to construct and maintain a worldwide defence for its imperial interests...

This volume analyzes the successes and failures of foreign interventions in intrastate ethnic wars. It considers successes of third party actions by actual fulfilment of the goals and objectives of multilateral intervention. Taking in-depth studies of interventions in Chad, Georgia, Somalia and Rwan..

Using the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study, this book focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and develops the concept of resilience and how it applies to Homeland Security. By examining what went right, what went wrong, and what can be improved upon during the Mississippi Gulf Coast's r..

The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war...

The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war...

The role of French security policy and cooperation in Africa has long been recognized as a critically important factor in African politics and international relations. This book investigates whether French involvement in Africa is really in the interest of Africans and offers a sophisticated underst..

This book provides a comprehensive study of the major changes in infantry tactics from the time of Fredrick the Great to the beginning of what many see as the era of modern war in the 1860's...