Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns

This title was first published in 2001.This text adresses the Kosovo conflict. The authors analyze the conflict using a number of different themes: the impact on current events, the attempts to find a solution, the need for military intervention, why airstrikes were made, the effectiveness of air po..

This volume studies the manner in which political leaders accept and apply intelligence...

Contributors to this book, many of whom are policy-makers who were in either Mogadishu or Washington during the Somalian relief missions, examine the US-led intervention and draw lessons for future peace-keeping operations. Many aspects of peace-making are analyzed...

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This book examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence...

This book examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence...

This valuable volume explores the continuing significance of peacekeeping in international affairs, particularly in terms of its military dimensions, and examines the priorities and perspectives of the major powers in relation to their military participation in international peacekeeping and wider p..

This book explicates the conditions under which military organizations have both succeeded and failed at institutionalizing new ideas and forms of warfare. Through comparative analysis of some classic cases, the authors offer a novel explanation for change rooted in managerial strategies for alignin..

Innovative in its approach integrating theories about Global Cities with those positing a Global Risk Society, Yee-Kuang Heng positions this research in the midst of two concurrent global trends that will gain more significance in coming years. The world is experiencing the consequences of not only ..

Innovative in its approach integrating theories about Global Cities with those positing a Global Risk Society, Yee-Kuang Heng positions this research in the midst of two concurrent global trends that will gain more significance in coming years. The world is experiencing the consequences of not only ..

This edited volume addresses one of the most significant issues in international strategic studies today: how to meet the challenge of a rising China?..

This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security  companies in the maritime sector...